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Help S Health not so obvious.

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deanpoland

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Got a quick question for S Health users. It's a pre-installed fitness app for samsung s4, s5 (and maby a few others). The app fails to indicate in an obvious manner how many trainings per week am I supposed to undergo. In the personal information section I specify my age, sex, weight, etc. and Activity Type (do I train 3-5 times a week, more or less). Choosing one type can lower or increase the ammount of calories I'm supposed to eat and burn respectively. That is understandable. I am lost, however, at this point: the app shows my "burn calories" goal every single day. The burned calories ring doesn't disappear for 2 days if i have for example indicated that I will train 5 days out out 7. So the question is as follows: am I supposed to train EVERY single day in order to reach my monthly goal of burning 2 kgilogrames away from my body or do I just ignore the burned calories ring for 2 days of my choosing? There is no option in the workout companion such us "mark a day-off". Looking forward to anyone's response. Cheers, Dean.
 
P.S. It would obviously be weird to burn, in my case 1014 kalories 7 days out of 7 if I have specified in my personal info moderate physical activity (3-5 workouts a week), but, again, the app and tutorials aren't clear in this aspect.
 
I'm not sure what you are asking, but I'll tell you how it is supposed to work.

You fill in the personal information that it requires.
It determines how many calories you will burn assuming you are sedate for a day.
As you walk and move about, it modifies that calorie count to account for your activity. (You should turn on the step counter function for this to work properly or wear a pedometer so you can tell it how many steps you had during the day.)
If you train (work out) you enter the session and what you did during the session (with times, distances, weights, etc...) and it adjusts your calorie meter to reflect the burned calories.
As you eat during the day, you enter food type and amount consumed and it adjusts your calories accordingly.
Overall, at the end of the day, you should have consumed the amount of calories that SHealth allows to be on your fittness goal (lose 2kg over whatever time period.) In other words your calorie meter would ideally be at 0 calories remaining at the end of each day.
If your meter is at 0 calories remaining at the end of each day, you theoretically have burned more calories than you have consumed to meet your weight loss goal.

Again, theoretically, if you want to lose 1 kg every two weeks, you should burn 8400 calories every two weeks more than you consume. The SHealth system monitors your amount of walking through sensors and your work outs through your input and your diet through your input to give you a good idea as to how you are doing daily against your goal. SHealth is only as good as the information that you feed into it, so make sure you enter real data for your workouts and also (and this is the difficult part) real amounts for what you eat. Entering food is by far the most difficult part of this system.

Fitbit is another system that works the exact same way as the SHealth system. Go to their website and read you it works there. They are a bit better at explaining how things work than the authors of the SHealth help.
 
Thank you for your reply, however I'm still at loss here so I'll put it differently. I want to burn 3kg from my stomach to reveal a 6pack. I weigh 78kg and I'm, 180cm high. I do have some muscle mass but I'm not a supplement or steroid user. After I've fed information about myself into the app and my goal (-0,5kg every week and -3kg after 1,5 months in total) the app tells me to eat 2800 kalories and burn 1000 kalories daily. The big question is am I supposed to burn 1000 kalories every single day like the app suggests for 1,5 months (which sounds a little over the edge but the burn 1000 kalories goal can be seen like daily) or do I just burn 1000 kalories 3-5 times a week because I've specified in the app Moderate Activity (3-5 workouts per week)?
 
In general, you want to keep the burned and eaten calories as close to what it suggests as you can. If you will turn on the step counter feature on the S4, It will begin to show calories burned as you walk during the day. Give it a day or two to see what kind of calories it says you have burned during the day. To stick with its recommendations, you will want to burn an average of 1000 calories every day based on your earlier post. If you walk enough during the day to do a 1000 calories, GREAT!! If not, then maybe a bit more walking. You have to make sure that turn on the Walking Mate, it is in the menu that pulls our from the top left corner of the app and then after turning it on, there is a start button at the bottom of the screen. After starting it, you shouldn't have to mess with it again.
 
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