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    • suzzloS Offline
      suzzlo Moderator
      last edited by

      Did you set correctly your age and weight?

      Suunto: Race, S9Peak, Spartan Sport Wrist
      Garmin: FR745, Edge 530
      SA topics:

      • Guides - https://forum.suunto.com/tags/guides
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      • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
        Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
        last edited by Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright

        Yes to all the questions. I even did a factory reset on it, but nothing changed. Did a light run today and couldn’t believe the number of calories it says I burned. I have all the information in the watch correct.
        Male
        212lb
        5’10"
        Birth Year 1992

        My zones are set up as well
        Zone 5: 193 (100%)-182(94%) (182 is my lactate threshold)
        4: 182 -174 (90%) (I use this zone for HIIT workouts
        3: 174 - 165 (85%) (Most of my running lives here)
        2: 165 - 154 (79%) (This is the lower zone for workouts)
        1: 154 and below (My taking it easy zone)

        I’ll have to find a way to post the results of my workout today. But in short, I ran mainly in zone 1 and 2 (I did HIIT yesterday, so taking it easy today). I ran just over 2 miles, average HR was 145. Seems like not a lot of calories burned, right? 691! How did I burn that many calories when many other watches are telling me that I only burned 400 calories when I really push myself on a 2-mile run? This was an easy run. I don’t understand. I use the wrist HR on the watch, which sometimes tells me that it’s not optimized, but today it didn’t give me any message like that. Meaning that the watch was functioning correctly. The HR it was displaying felt correct. I don’t know how I could burn over 600 calories over an easy 2-mile run. Over the last week, I’ve had to cut my calories burned in half just to put into Lifesum. There’s gotta be something wrong with the algorithm, not to mention that the step counter counts everything as a step. But I’m not too worried about that because I don’t care about daily steps anyway. I’ll find a way to post my most recent run to show you all. Sorry that this message is so long, I’m just super frustrated.

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        • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
          Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
          last edited by Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright

          http://movescount.com/moves/move308339398#

          Let me know if that link works.

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            johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
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            @Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright I tried it right now, did NOT work.

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            • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
              Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
              last edited by

              Anyone know how to share a move from movecount?

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              • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
                Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
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                  johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
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                  @Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright said in Suunto Spartan Sport Really high calories burned:

                  Anyone know how to share a move from movecount?

                  Hi. Please check in the movescount settings the privacy stuff. If you have it on pripate, your not able to share IMHO.

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                  • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
                    Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
                    last edited by

                    I just changed it to public

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                      johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
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                      @Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright said in Suunto Spartan Sport Really high calories burned:

                      I just changed it to public

                      That did it, I see your workout now in Movescount. Which does not mean I can answer your question 😉

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                        johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @johann.fuehrer
                        last edited by

                        @johann-fuehrer I’ve checked this with some calorie calculators and I agree with you: this values are way to high, it should be somewhere in the 450 range (with some spread of course)

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                        • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
                          Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
                          last edited by

                          Screenshot_20190920-182459_Connect.jpg
                          Here’s a screenshot of an older workout I did with my Garmin watch last year. This run was UPHILL and my average HR was over 160. How many calories burned? 551.

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                          • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
                            Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
                            last edited by

                            Screenshot_20190920-182633_Samsung Health.jpg Screenshot_20190920-182652_Samsung Health.jpg

                            Here from a very similar run. The same route, only I ran harder. Calories burned is 434.

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                            • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
                              Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
                              last edited by

                              Sorry the photos are so big

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                                johann.fuehrer Bronze Member @Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
                                last edited by

                                @Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright said in Suunto Spartan Sport Really high calories burned:

                                Sorry the photos are so big

                                No Problem (I think). These runs look ok, especially the first were you also had some altitude to manage. Maybe, if the other guys did wake up here in Europe, you’ll get some better answers 😉

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                                • ? Offline
                                  A Former User
                                  last edited by A Former User

                                  Is your rest HR setup correctly in the watch?

                                  Also, are you HR zones and max HR are setup in the watch in addition to Movescount? I am pretty sure Spartan and newer Suunto watches don’t use HR zones from Movescount. Instead HR zones must be setup directly on the watch (which I personally think was a bad design decision).

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                                  • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
                                    Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
                                    last edited by

                                    My rest HR is set to 60, which I feel is correct unless there’s a way to test it lol.

                                    I also set everything up on the watch before connecting it to the new Suunto app. I later connected it to movecount. So all the personal information and HR zones are all set up through the watch

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                                    • suzzloS Offline
                                      suzzlo Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      Another chech.:

                                      As far as you may know, there are default and advanced zones for running and cycling. So in these type of activities, advanced zones are used…

                                      Suunto: Race, S9Peak, Spartan Sport Wrist
                                      Garmin: FR745, Edge 530
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                                      • Kyle Vander Ploeg-WrightK Offline
                                        Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
                                        last edited by

                                        I use the advanced zone to set up the specified HR zones I’ve posted above for all running sports. My normal HR zones for sports other than running are more like this:
                                        Zone 5: 90-100%
                                        4: 80-90%
                                        3: 70-80%
                                        2: 60-70%
                                        1: 60% and below.

                                        But so far I’m only using this watch for running. So it would only use the HR zones that I specified above.

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                                        • ? Offline
                                          A Former User
                                          last edited by

                                          Sorry, don’t know what might be the issue. I don’t usually pay attention to Calories but I checked my last activity and the calorie estimate seems to be reasonable - 475 Cal for a 4.2 mile run with some elevation gain.

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                                          • suzzloS Offline
                                            suzzlo Moderator @Kyle Vander Ploeg-Wright
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                                            @Kyle-Vander-Ploeg-Wright @silentvoyager

                                            Today => 1:15h 13.5k 158HR(avg) -> 1200 calories (should be 900 -1000)

                                            Same route (should be 600-700)
                                            2019/09/13 => 0:52h 9k 158HR(avg) -> 830 cal
                                            2019/08/20 => 0:49h 9k 149HR(avg) -> 694 cal
                                            2019/07/22 => 0:52h 9k 149HR(avg) -> 755 cal
                                            2019/07/17 => 0:47h 9k 158HR(avg) -> 761 cal
                                            2019/06/15 => 0:50h 9k 168HR(avg) -> 917 cal

                                            Perhaps I’m in the same case (not so big difference) and didn’t realize 😞

                                            Suunto: Race, S9Peak, Spartan Sport Wrist
                                            Garmin: FR745, Edge 530
                                            SA topics:

                                            • Guides - https://forum.suunto.com/tags/guides
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