What Are Kcals On Apple Watch?

Apple Watch is a great fitness device that can help you track your daily exercise. Apart from other health-related measurements, this wearable lets you count your calories burned for a day. It's not just that. In fact, the way Apple Watch measures your burned calories is different from other wearables.

What are active and passive calories on Apple Watch?

Apple Watch measures two types of calories; Active and Passive calories. Active calories are the ones you burn while moving and doing exercise, and Passive calories are those calories that are burned by your metabolism, even if you are sitting all day in your bedroom.

So, if you want to know the total calories burned by your body in a day, you will add the active and passive calories.

Kcal on Apple Watch

The Apple Watch displays Kcal on its screen. The Kcal is also shown on some other pedometers instead of calories. Kcal means kilocalories, which represents 1000 calories.

How many active calories should I burn a day Apple Watch?

Apple watch suggests you burn at least 350 active calories per day. It means that you have to do 30-minutes exercise per day. However, you can adjust your daily goal of burning calories on your Apple watch.

How many are passive calories (without exercise) burned daily?

The passive calories burned in an average person's body is 1800 per day. According to estimates, the human body burns 75 calories per hour while sitting.

Convert Kcal into calories

As Kcal is equal to one food calorie. If you want to convert Kcal into small calories, you will multiply the number of Kcal by 1000.

How many kcal do I need to lose weight?

To lose weight by one pound fate, 3500 more calories need to be burned than the number of calories you eat.

Active calories on Apple Watch

If you want to see the active calories on your Apple Watch, follow these steps.

1. Go to the Activity app on your Apple Watch.
2. Swipe down with the Digital crown.
3. Under the Move goal, your active burned calories will be displayed.

Passive and total calories on iPhone

1. Open the Activity app on your iPhone.
2. Open the Activity rings.
3. The total amount of burned calories will be displayed under a Move section.
4. To find out your passive burned calories, subtract your active calories from the total calories.

Final thoughts

Apple Watch has excellent features, including the tracking of your daily exercise and fitness routine. With that wearable on your hand, you will always be up-to-date about your health and daily routines.