NotSoBigBen Posted August 20, 2009 Share Just wondering about all the muttering about calorie count issues ........ What do you use it as an indicator against? How much food you need to eat to 'recover' what you used up? Added to all your other activities for the day (walking, breathing, working, vacuuming, mowing the lawn) in total vs calorie intake to balance food intake to remain constant, lose or gain (God forbid ....) weight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minion Posted August 20, 2009 Share Kalahari.net is a good, well priced and convenient place to get GSC10s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancoisO Posted August 20, 2009 Share I burned something 3925 kcal on a 2h20 ride on my garmin. That means I am burning 28 per min. I think the best i got on my Polar was 14 going almost at max. So i agree that the Tacx, polars or powertap's are closer to correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daxiet Posted August 20, 2009 Share Just wondering about all the muttering about calorie count issues ........ What do you use it as an indicator against? How much food you need to eat to 'recover' what you used up? Added to all your other activities for the day (walking' date=' breathing, working, vacuuming, mowing the lawn) in total vs calorie intake to balance food intake to remain constant, lose or gain (God forbid ....) weight?[/quote'] I'm not hung up on Calorie counting, but when you buy a device that costs this much and acts as though it belongs in the same category as Polar and other good exercise monitoring tools, you expect that even a gimic such as Calorie count works. If I bought a 50 buck special watch I wouldn't mind certain things being useless. So in short, I think we all are just ticked of with Garmin for taking shortcuts on their training devices and still asking for top dollar. Plus the tech support from Avnic is a joke. The GSC10 according to them doesn't measure speed, its just cadence. Every time there is an issue, their response is a work around or send it to us and we will have a look. My heart rate monitor regularly mis-reports my heart rate at 100%-140%. In truth, my Garmin has just been a bundle of stuff ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiMPers Posted August 23, 2009 Share Go with the Tacx reading. I have 3 readings on my IDT. Garmin 305' date=' Tacx and Powertap. Powertap is most accurate. This morning IDT showed Tacx at about 720 calories, Powertap at about 705 and I did not check garmin but it normally reads around double so would probably show about 1400 odd. [/quote'] How does the KJ (kilojoules) reading on your Garmin compare with the PowerTap reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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