Does GetFIT App track your calories burned from exercise?

How Does GetFIT App Track Calories Burned?

The GetFIT App web platform lets you log activities and workouts, track your daily steps, and record estimated calories burned. Within the workout logger, you can also manually enter how many calories you believe you burned during a workout.

These numbers are kept separate from your food intake. For example, if you log 2,000 calories of food and record a workout that burned an estimated 600 calories, GetFIT App does not automatically change your food intake to 1,400 calories.

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Why Aren't Exercise Calories Deducted From Your Food Intake?

Calories burned during exercise are estimates rather than exact measurements. Smartwatches, fitness trackers, cardio machines, and other devices can provide useful estimates, but their reported calorie expenditure may differ from the amount of energy you actually used.

This matters particularly when you are trying to maintain a calorie deficit. If a wearable estimates that you burned 900 calories and those calories were automatically added back to your food allowance, you might assume you can eat another 900 calories. If your actual exercise expenditure was considerably lower, your intended calorie deficit could become much smaller or disappear entirely.

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Exercise, Calorie Deficits And Calorie Surpluses

Tracking exercise is still useful, but GetFIT App keeps exercise calorie estimates separate from your food intake so you can view both without automatically changing your daily calorie allowance.

For fat loss, maintaining a calorie deficit over time is what drives weight loss. For muscle growth, sufficient energy and protein combined with progressive resistance training are important. Treating exercise calories as a separate metric can help prevent uncertain calorie-burn estimates from automatically changing the nutrition target you are following.