# Best option for tracking calories **URL:** \ **Category:** 🇬🇧 English speaking Forum\ **Created:** [December 8, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/best-option-for-tracking-calories/4921 "2022-12-08T14:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.freeletics.com/ben/32/28_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.freeletics.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/best-option-for-tracking-calories/4921/4 "2022-12-08T18:23:00Z")
Ah, I think you are referring to starting a workout on your Apple Watch independently. This is possible 👍🏻 I don’t honestly know which the best option is, but essentially you can: 1. Record the workout independently of the Freeletics App on your Apple Watch. Essentially you can start to record data like this on your Watch by starting a workout ( I would suggest HIT but it’s not always the case) in the Workout app-this way all your HR, estimated calorie expenditure etc is sent to Activity and the Health app. **I would make sure you disconnect any connection between Apple Health and the Freeletics app in your app settings-otherwise you will get data from both the workout recorded on your Watch, and the data synced to Health from the Freeletics app.** 2. Just allow the connection between the Freeletics app to Apple Health, and Apple will estimate calorie data based on the workout in your Health app. The below response provides maybe a bit more data 👇🏻 > [@Estimated calorie burnt for each Interval](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/estimated-calorie-burnt-for-each-interval/2718/6): > > I’m not sure it will make any difference Xiropillo. The app (the Freeletics app that is) doesn’t provide any estimation at all with regards to the calories “burnt” in a workout. That estimation is provided solely by Apple in such a case, and depending on whether Apple knows your training pulse (i.e. when using a HR monitor) then this estimation can obviously change. Training pulse is only one variable though-body fat % and metabolism also play parts, amongst other factors (age, sex, weight, heig… And, as pointed out by @Sushant in the same conversation, wearables are notoriously bad at estimating calorie expenditure 👇🏻 > **[Research: Wearables, including Apple Watch, are poor at tracking calories](https://www.gsmarena.com/research_apple_watch_6_among_other_wearables_is_bad_at_tracking_calories-news-54314.php)** > > But they are pretty reliable in counting steps and tracking heart rate. In a paper published in January this year, researchers try to evaluate the... :clapclapstatic: --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.freeletics.com/t/best-option-for-tracking-calories/4921)._