Comment by faangguyindia
4 days ago
Many people actually try to use Garmin or other trackers/smart watches for things they aren't good at.
For example, if you want to track your maintenance calories (TDEE, total daily expenditure), Garmin isn't going to be much useful.
I've started exporting my sleep data from Garmin connect. And my expenditure, weight, nutrition, from macrofactor.
I add them to a spreadsheet along with other metrics I've been collecting manually for a long time, like tape, caliper measurements etc.
I do it weekly and then ask Claude to analyse the sheet.
It's super manual but just once a week and it can be really helpful / spots insights I often miss like how sleep affected something etc.
We use a neural network to predict maintenance calories.
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Many people waste their time by adding "calorie burn" from different activities by tracking all of them individually in smartwatches or fitness bands.
Do maintenance calories vary and change that much (excluding exercise variance) ?
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> For example, if you want to track your maintenance calories (TDEE, total daily expenditure), Garmin isn't going to be much useful.
Why not?
It's not accurate for this.
You can't use a sensor and stack calorie burn from bunch of activities and add them all up to workout maintenance calories.
The sensorless method we use is more reliable, https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/
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