On Sunday mornings, I go out with a couple of friends for a fitness thing.
Sometimes we ride our bikes; be it road, gravel or MTB.
Sometimes we head out on foot for a run or walk.
This week, we went for a walk. We realised a couple of weeks ago that it was near April and we signed up for the Coventry Way a few years ago.
During those few years, it hasn’t actually been ran because of the pandemic.
It’s running this year, we haven’t been. When we first signed up we were all running pretty regularly, more recently we’ve spent time on our bikes.
Hence going for a massive walk on Sunday to try the legs and feet out.
During our fitness Sunday meet ups, we generally stop off for a breakfast. Predominantly of the full English variety. This weeks was at Coombe Abbey and was really tasty.
Calorie wise, the activity generally balances the breakfast.
I thought the same was probably true, this week. It was only a walk but it was 16.5 miles cross country.
I tend to think of covering a mile as about 100 calories burned, give or take.
My Garmin agreed when I got home, it said 1844 calories.
Whoop didn’t, it didn’t even register that I had done any exercise as my heart rate was pretty low throughout. When I entered in the times it came up with 686 calories.
1200 difference from the same heart rate information. Garmin will have factored in some algorithm and knew I was walking because that was the button I pressed.
Whoop is based entirely on my physical strain. The truth is probably somewhere in between.
That’s why I recommend having your nutrition and training as completely separate entities.
I’ll explain more tomorrow.
Darren “mmm breakfast” Checkley
