I’m work security in a 20+ story building, when I do my rounds I walk up the stairs to each floor and my new smart watch I got myself today is now telling me I am walking a little more than phone normally says I do. As for the calories it’s saying I’m burning nearly double what my phone pedometer says I do, how accurate is this data? Just to clarify, my phone’s pedometer does have my weight and height so it can better track my performance.
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It’s going to vary wildly from person to person in most cases.
Anecdotally, I’ve ran the numbers (tracked intake and weight for multiple weeks) and found out that the Apple Watch is *almost* dead on. Like, within maybe 5% or less on average. And it seems to be consistent with its accuracy as well. Steps were similar. I haven’t done a ton of comparison stuff with steps as I don’t worry about them too much. But the bare minimum spot checking I’ve done shows that it seems to be pretty close, for the most part.
That said, I’ve also met people who have done the same and said that their watch was way off for them.
Bottom line, using a fitness tracker watch can help give motivation for being active but the real accuracy for tracking intake and steps comes the old fashioned way.
Track intake, track weight. Keep a running average. If weight isn’t going down, reduce intake by 5% or so. Do that for a week and see what your weight does. Once it starts going down, just keep the course until you either hit a goal weight or it stops going down again. Then adjust from there.
As for steps, as long as you’re using the same device to measure steps, the inaccuracies will average out in the end.
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