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Sam Hopes

I just did a 500-calorie HIIT workout — here's how many calories I really burned on my Apple Watch

Apple Watch and woman doing HIIT workout

When our fitness editor put the Apple Watch Series 8 and Garmin Epix Pro head-to-head for a 300-calorie workout, I was intrigued, but not surprised, by the results. Neither of them hit the magic 300 target. 

It’s a common theme. Fitness influencers and personal trainers tout high-calorie burn workouts, we do them and then even the best fitness trackers on the market throw up drastically different results to each other and the workout target. 

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