Many fitness trackers only show you the total calories burned during your workout, this is where the Apple Watch is different as it shows you the active calories vs total calories whilst you are ...

This step-by-step guide with images covers how to see Apple Watch calories burned, including active, passive, and total daily calories.

Active calories are those you burn while walking, climbing, jogging — whatever you do for exercise. Total calories include active and resting calories.

From Fitbits and Apple watches, there are tons of wearables that quantify just about every move we make, but knowing what those numbers mean and how to align our fitness goals with them can be ...

A calorie count right on the wrist is nice, but is it accurate? Find out how your Apple Watch calculates the calories you burn.

If your New Year's resolution is to get fit, you have a good tool strapped to your wrist. Here's how to put Apple Health's calorie burn metrics to good use.

Fitness also lets you change the default unit of measurement, Kilocalories, to Calories or Kilojoules. You can also change the pool length units, cycling workouts, and walking or running workouts.

Because these trackers cannot directly measure calories burned, and because calorie-burn rate varies from person to person, their approximations can be substantially off.

The Apple Watch tracks workouts and gives you two different listings for calories burned: Active calories and total calories. What the heck does that mean anyway?