Bike riding calories, ms health vs Strava

[jmerrey]

I have ms health linked with Strava, and it's syncing perfectly. However, the calories burned are wildly different. For example, my first test ride recorded 539 calories burned in ms health, 31 in Strava. Subsequent rides have shown similar discrepancies. Is anyone else seeing this?

 

[pallentx]

Strava generally reports half the calories burned as MS Band/Health or Garmin. In the cycling community for years people have considered Garmin's calorie burn estimates to be very high. I think Strava may have the best estimates, but I don't have any way to verify who is right.