Hi, I have Tomtom Spark watch. Running and cycling functions are great. I have problem with freestyle mode. When I hike, I measure trip in freestyle mode. I upload the trip at mysports and there is no energy consumption (it's logical for freestile mode). When I open the trip, I can choose different activities (hiking, snowboarding,....). I would expect, that when I choose hike, it should calculate energy automatically (it would be nice feature). It doesn't happen. I calculate energy manually, edit the trip and paste energy value. Everything looks great for a while. When I open progress/activity tracking/energy there is nothing about that hike. There isn't manually calculated value, but even no energy value at all. So if I will be at home all day and do nothing, I will have bigger energy consumption then after 50 km long all day hike.
Could you please fix this nonsense?
P.S. It's nice that there is skiing and snowboarding activity, but I really miss XC skiing activity. I think, that more runners do XC skiing during the winter than snowboarding.
Thanks a lot.
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Superusers
Again, the progress tab, which is based on the daily activity tracker, will not pick up anything if the HR is not working. The daily tracker is using your BMR to compute calories, so without HR values in the sports activities to compute additional calories, you will not see a change here, it will continue to use your BMR for it.
I imagine this is not what you were hoping to hear but let me know if this answered your question. If it did, please mark it as a solution so other can look for it if they have the same question.
Anyway. I was looking for METs tables and it calculates only from type of activity (different MET values for different speed of the same activity), weight and duration. Weight is constant. Duration and speed is measured in freestyle mode. So it should be no problem to calculate energy expenditure automatically from average speed, when I choose type of activity.
I know that this problem is unimportant, but it looks so badly when I look at energy chart after 50km hike and see those zero volues :-)
Superusers
It is based on GPS, as that is a GPS enabled mode.