Garmin calorie calculator

[hagar]

i did some comparisons witha spin session and a rid thereafter and found that the Garmin ( using sports tracks ) only calculated me burning 1652 calories. The same ride i did with a polar measured 2512 calories. What i did notice is that during the spin session the garmin only registered 222 calories so without the distance sensor on the spin bike garmin cannot record calories accurately !!

[hagar]

ok so the saturday we did a nice easy morning ride and i took the polar out with the garmin to see what the diffrence in calories consumed were !!

 

 

 

the ride was quite flat with only 205 m of up hill .

 

 

 

garmin did not have any HR moniter and gave me 2927 calories consumed

 

 

 

polar with hr monitor gave me 2768 calories consumed .

 

 

 

the ride was 2 hrs 26 and we did 64 km

 

 

 

so they in my opinion pretty close on a flat ride but would like to see what they would be like on a hilly ride