{"id":906046,"date":"2026-09-26T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:40:24","slug":"why-your-smartwatch-is-so-bad-at-telling-you-how-many-calories-you-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906046\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your smartwatch is so bad at telling you how many calories you burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ULDDACNHIJHBRKRQIZDPNDKLBI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Your smartwatch may not be lying to you about how many calories you burn when exercising. But it\u2019s almost certainly exaggerating, according to an eye-opening <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0353261\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"A3MMUERS5ZA3LEFVN7BVBRSZMA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Scientists asked 58 men and women of varying ages and body weights to wear different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/08\/19\/heart-rate-variability-stress-longevity\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/08\/19\/heart-rate-variability-stress-longevity\/\">smartwatches<\/a> for the study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation. (The devices were made by Apple, Garmin, Samsung and Fitbit.) The volunteers also strapped on high-tech face masks and other scientific paraphernalia to precisely measure metabolic changes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your smartwatch may not be lying to you about how many calories you burn when exercising. But it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,63,213,105],"class_list":["post-906046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}