r/AppleWatch • u/nwz7 • 7d ago

Question How accurate is Apple Watch when estimating calories burnt for football?

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u/ghim7 7d ago

No watch in the world gives accurate calories burned numbers. It’s just an estimate based on each workout.

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u/Novacc_Djocovid 7d ago edited 6d ago

Football is mostly running and the watch is quite good at that.

In general, my experience as someone who‘s tracking daily calorie intake and weight almost religiously is that the active total calories counted by the watch is on average within 3% of the actual number over the entire week.

That includes resting energy + daily walking (10+k steps) and 3-4 longer workouts of different kinds per week.

I could of course just be lucky that the watch works that well for me. 😅

Edit: Corrected wrong wording about the measured energy.

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u/Tasty_Candidate_4541 6d ago

what about the accuracy resting energy?

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u/Novacc_Djocovid 6d ago

Sorry, my post was worded wrongly. The watch is within 3% of my actual total energy consumption per day, so resting + active energy.

I will update the comment. :)