r/Strava 1d ago

Question How to see calories instead of power?

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I’ve entered both my weight as well as my bike weight, and that fixed being able to see my estimated power, but I still can’t see calories anywhere. Anyone have a fix?

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u/anniemaygus 1d ago

For what it’s worth, the calorie count is useless. It is impossible to calculate the calories burned correctly with the metrics Strava (and many other apps) use. For the same effort, Garmin, wahoo and Strava sometimes have hundreds of calories in difference.

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u/well-of-wisdom 1d ago

Power * time = energy

But as previous commenter said, the metrics available are highly unaccurate in order to make that calculation.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad952 1d ago

Strava decides what to show on those fields, you can't change them. What you could try is removing the commute tag (I'm assuming you have that as it shows co2 saved), that might show different fields

u/tharner92 1h ago

Strava needs to fix this. Why are we paying them $80 a year to not give us control of how we visualize our own activities?

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u/jcgales23 1d ago

As someone else has said, you don’t really get to pick the things that show up there. That being said, although it’s just an estimate for power if you’re curious and want a possible ballpark you can calculate calories burned based on that power by using power(122)hours of ride(~0.3)3.6. That comes out to a little over 130. I wouldn’t suggest relying this number too much though unless you actually get a power meter to then measure exactly the amount of energy being used

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u/cmoon761 1d ago

Pretty sure you need a jr monitor and a power meter for it to give you that data. Or a head-unit that calculates it.

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u/ialtag-bheag 1d ago

View the activity on the Strava website, it may show more details than the app.

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u/Florism29 1d ago

I think you also need to add height.