Why when recording an outdoor walk and mowing the lawn do I burn 3x the rate of walking? Just mowed for 50 mins and burned 680 active which there’s no way
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Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 8
Agreed - I just did a 30 min / 1.29 mile mowing session and it says I burned just over 400 calories. There's literally no way that's true.
My best guess is that the bumpier the lawn, the more it thinks that you're doing a very vigorous activity.
While it certainly takes more effort than a standard walk, and it may be done while it's very hot out... there's no denying that this is wildly inaccurate.
Push mower, motorised or ride-on?
If the first of those then it sounds about right, your heart rate would be relatively much higher than walking the same distance.
Sometimes not swinging your arm may confuse the Watch but usually it measures low in that case.
See my reply, could be true depending on your heart rate increase above resting. People have had strokes and heart attacks when pushing a mower
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