Activity Points on Etools
For those of you who enter your activity on etools, I have a question/issue:
When I type in an activity (e.g. spinning) and WW finds a match, it asks me for the duration and assigns a point value to it. Why doesn't it ask me for intensity level? Some days I may perform less intensely during a spin session, so even though the duration is the same, I know I haven't burned the same number of calories. From what I can tell, WW automatically assigns it a moderate intensity.
By the same token, there is the activity calculator on the sidebar, where you are supposed to enter activity if it's not in their database. I tried that, and there they give you both time and intensity boxes to fill in. BUT it assigns the same point value for whatever it is, regardless of what the exercise actually is. For example, if I enter 60 minutes of walking at a high intensity, WW assigns it 13 AP but I get the same number of APs if I enter 60 minutes of running at high intensity - and I know I am burning more calories and expending more energy by running for an hour versus walking for an hour.
Am I missing something here or is there some way to accurately measure activity and intensity?
I don't use my APs partly for this reason but I would like an accurate figure of how many activity points I'm earning. Right now I feel like it's just an average of my week.
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