{"id":611027,"date":"2026-09-09T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:00:08","slug":"new-study-finds-fitness-watches-consistently-overestimated-calories-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611027\/","title":{"rendered":"New study finds fitness watches consistently overestimated calories burned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Florida International University study found popular fitness watches consistently overestimated how many calories people burned during workouts.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers tested Apple, Garmin, Samsung and Fitbit devices against clinical lab equipment and found error rates often ranged from 15 to 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/health\/short-walks-are-good-but-longer-ones-could-dramatically-lower-cardiovascular-risk-study-says\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Short walks are good \u2014 but longer ones could dramatically impact your heart health, study says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study found that Apple was the most accurate. Garmin and Samsung overestimated the most.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t treat the calories burned number it gives you as an accurate number, because it&#8217;s not,&#8221; said Jason Kostrna, the study&#8217;s lead author and FIU associate professor of kinesiology and exercise science in the College of Arts, Sciences &amp; Education. &#8220;You could be off hundreds of calories each week and easily end up in a calorie surplus when you think you&#8217;re in a calorie deficit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY | <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/health\/taking-a-glp-1-drug-may-be-changing-more-than-just-the-number-on-the-scale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taking a GLP-1 drug may be changing more than just the number on the scale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the studies findings, the higher a person&#8217;s body fat, the greater the errors tended to be.<\/p>\n<p>That means that those who would be more likely to be tracking their calories for weight management may be getting inaccurate information.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say that while these smartwatches are useful, calorie counts shouldn&#8217;t be treated as exact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Florida International University study found popular fitness watches consistently overestimated how many calories people burned during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-611027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}