anyone got recommendations for cheap wearables that'll track calories burned during exercise? ideally with minimal other invasions of my bioprivacy (hexbear.net)

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[posting this here bc the fitness comm is pretty dead]

I'm tryna track my calories more closely and I've got a solution for tracking the calories I eat (shout out to the Nutritionix app) but its functionality for tracking calories spent is very rudimentary and I want to get something more precise than just going to an online calculator like this.

If any of yall have recommendations on cheap wearables that'll keep track of the calories I burn while exercising, I'd hugely appreciate it. I don't need it to do anything else and I don't even need it to connect to my phone, since I'm willing to manually input the number of calories burned every day.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Some of them used to work even if you didn't connect them to the app.

Calorie measurements are super sketchy though. Afaik you mostly want to look at excercise as making gains and calorie control and macros for managing weight and body composition. With the reminder that muscle is much denser than fat so if you can shift your body comp towards muscle you'll be "slimmer" without your weight changin as much.

I've heard that measuring food calories is difficult even in lab conditions