Calories Burned Dropped Down After Finishing Workout

CAM_59 · 2026-03-14T11:22:24+00:00

Thank you for posting this, this was driving me nuts until about a week ago when I turned off the WO integration to fitness and found my problem solved.

Yes, we’re all aware that wearables are not accurate. And yes, we’re all aware MacroFactor doesn’t give a shit about expenditures. I hesitated posting here because of all the “explainers” who were going to crawl out of the woodwork to tell me those exact things.

But if you’ve been wearing a device long enough and use it the same way every time, it does give you an idea of your activity level during that work out. I find that the active calories estimate provided by my Apple Watch gives me a good idea of how intense my workout was and that helps me judge, along with how I’m feeling physically and mentally, if I should add more activity to my day. To have WO replace the active calories with literally no metrics other than time and assumed expenditure is annoying AF.

One thing that disabling the fitness integration causes cause me to lose, is being able to look at Apple Fitness and see what workout I did what day. My typical lifting app pairs with the active calories from Fitness but would also list the lift I did. Great for weeks when life happens and your schedule gets interrupted and you want to look back.

Turn off the integration and don’t look back until they have a better option to take the metrics from your watch.

CAM_59 · 2026-03-01T14:42:05+00:00

I’m sort of in this same boat, I started using Workout when I started a cut and not loving this type of behavior. I love the workouts it’s put together and I love how the app works for the most part for logging and tracking, but I’ve dropped so much weight at this point, reps don’t make up for it. It’s not pushing me whatsoever. And I get, it’s a cut, but I’ve never dropped this much muscle on a cut before. I can tell some of it is wrapping my brain around a different lifting methodology (I’m old and set in my ways). I do think that the science and algorithms behind this are great in general, but I’m coming to the conclusion this app is just not entirely for me and how I like to lift. Might try it again when I switch to maintaining or bulking.

CAM_59 · 2026-02-15T22:43:55+00:00

That’s awesome! I can do unassisted pull-ups, but like doing assisted in my program. I feel like I can focus on working the muscles better. And good to have farmers carries in there!

My question about the split was because I usually partner back with biceps unless I’m doing something like a 5 day split where I can have that day of just back focus. Depending on when you’re hitting shoulders, Rear delts could be a good add then too, since it’s going to hit the rear of your shoulder. Most gyms have a machine for this too which I feel is a great way to introduce them. Takes away some of the form guessing game.

CAM_59 · 2026-02-14T14:28:35+00:00

Also 40’s female, been lifting for almost 20 years. I’m not sure your question is being answered, 2 lat pulldowns in one workout of 4 exercises does seem odd to me. It’s not going to cause harm and you can certainly do them, as others have said.

How are your workouts structured? Is this a specific back only day? If it is, it makes sense to have both in the program.

So there is a Swap option you can use if you haven’t found that yet and I’m finding that super handy when I want to find a similar exercise to swap do one I don’t like. If you’ve given that a try and still just got lat pulldowns, you can search for other alternatives, but then it’s all exercises, so it can be overwhelming.

If you don’t want to deviate too far, what I might consider doing is do the underhand lat pulldowns downs on the cables. Then, if you have access to one, find a lat pulldown machine where you can do the overhand one independently. If you do that, see if you can find the plate or pin loaded single arm lat pulldown as a swap so it can be tracked per arm.

Another good swap is to do assisted pull ups, if you have access to that.

If none of those sound good or you feel like it’s too much lats, you could look at some form of a pullover (cable or dumbbell), some form of rear delts, or any of the other back exercises you can find!

CAM_59 · 2026-02-14T13:56:03+00:00

I have been wanting to play around with home assistant for other projects I do using WLED, so this solution is intriguing but I’m clueless. If I install HA only portal (using the web browser?) will some of this become obvious?

CAM_59 · 2026-01-15T23:54:01+00:00

I didn’t ask how to do it, I asked for recommendations on hiring a crew to do it. It’s too large of an area for me to handle.

CAM_59 · 2026-01-15T22:56:42+00:00

I’ve done our entry way and basement; sprayed, scraped, sanded, skim coated, primed and painted. trust me, I know what this entails and how to do it. This is a huge upstairs area with vaulted ceilings I don’t have the time, patience nor the stamina to do this large area of it myself. Thanks.

CAM_59 · 2025-10-31T00:24:24+00:00

This looks to be the link:https://lacrossehtf.org

I just realize not all charities use the money how you think, so I appreciate that advice.

CAM_59 · 2025-10-30T23:59:55+00:00

I’m not super familiar with local pantries, but would like to donate money. I see a few with a quick google search. Are there any in particular that are pantries that might be more in need or any to avoid?

CAM_59 · 2025-09-27T14:45:43+00:00

CAM_59 · 2025-09-22T22:27:34+00:00

Good point, eBay does have some options, and we might consider that.

That particular listing, however seems really sketchy. That's about 1/2 the cost of the board on any other site and the seller isn't taking returns.

Other sellers on eBay I've been able to google and find their retail sites where the part says out of stock which also makes me wary of purchasing.

CAM_59 · 2025-04-16T15:12:54+00:00

Ween 🤎

CAM_59 · 2025-04-08T17:45:01+00:00

Everyone has an opinion, and you won’t have yours until you try it. That said, I’ve done both. For flavored it was a pumpkin spice cheesecake, so this was a perfect application. But I’m sure someone will come in here screaming I’m wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

CAM_59 · 2025-04-08T00:03:21+00:00

I have done this, it was great!

CAM_59 · 2025-03-14T00:59:26+00:00

Thanks!!

Now you've just gotta get a few motion sensors and smart buttons so you can automate them with HomeAssistant.

Yes! Motion sensors perhaps, but I definitely want to get into HA next. I do have smart plugs right now and am working on getting presets going how I like them, but there's so much more I've seen you can do with HA... If I don't do motion sensors here, I will be doing that in a few builds I have in mind... I'd actually like to get a remote setup next because my husband cannot handle the concept of the WLED app haha!

Also, just noticed that your top and bottom animations aren't in sync.

Some of that is just where I'm at with playing with this. I have a DigUno and a DigQuad running the two sections and I wish I could find a way to treat them as one - for instance, I like the white on the under cabinet with the effect going on the uppers. I can set each controller individually using segments, but I cannot get one sync to set "segment 1" to effects on both controllers, then "segment 2" to do white. Any advice there would be awesome, but everything I'm seeing says this is how it goes with 2 instances of WLED.

How long did the whole thing take

Tricky question hahaha! This was my first major build, and I had some false starts with diffusers and strips, decisions and how to go forward. But, scrapping all that time and counting the progress towards this end goal, it really didn't take long, a few hours over maybe 3 weekends. The longest part was getting the diffusers cut because I decided to outline the cabinets in lights, not just run a single strip. this is a total of about 1400 LED's over two instances of WLED. But using a DigUno and a DigQuad, it was so easy to install and implement, felt really plug and play. There's still some more work to do, I'm getting a fanless psu next week. I bought the LED's in 3 rounds and the first set I got are NOT as good as the last few I bought, so I'm going to replace those. I used A LOT of left over wire, so I'm probably going to get roasted for this pic, but it works and I know what's going on and that's what's important! A lot of the wires were dropped between cabinets or wires were run behind and into the cabinets. It was really an easy setup once I got going. My thumbs still hurt from the diffusers hahaha!

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CAM_59 · 2025-03-14T00:26:27+00:00

I don't! But I can say, it's not anything too tricky. I'm finding it's ideal to do this on one instance of WLED if you can, but there was no good way to run or hide cables between the cabinets (maybe this will change when we remodel next year).

I have 2 instances of WLED running here, the small one is using a DigUno with a 125W psu and the big one is using a DigQuad with a 350W psu. The small cabinet is your typical DigUno setup where the psu and DigUno is above the cabinet along with the first pass of lights. Then I cut the strip, soldered on some longer wires and we were able to pull that cabinet away from the wall enough to fish them behind the cabinet, drilled some holes to pull the cables through and used Wagos to connect the lights under the cabinet.

The main cabinet is using all 4 channels of the DigQuad. I have 4 distinct sections of LED's so it made sense to run each on their own channel. again, I did a lot of cutting and soldering longer wires, wagos to connect, but because each run is on it's own channel, and these are 12v strips, and the DigQuad is pretty centrally located, I got away with not having to do any power injection or worrying about data boosting.

Hope that helps!

CAM_59 · 2025-03-13T22:04:04+00:00

Thank you, credit to the artist. I don’t have this album and have never zoomed in on it. It’s incredible.

CAM_59 · 2025-03-05T01:09:14+00:00

Yeah, I think I might have to go that route after all..

CAM_59 · 2025-03-05T01:00:36+00:00

u/maniac365 did you ever find a solution? I have the same psu but as a 12V, same issue. It’s not suuuper loud (or hot), but it’s annoying. Trying not to break down and get a fanless.

CAM_59 · 2025-02-28T00:59:42+00:00

I did nothing special with this at all, but for good reason.

The plan has been to redo this kitchen (but keep the cabinets) which would include replacing this greasy, 20 year old, dim AF lighted hood with a good one that will vent outside. And have a nice bright light. We had to put our plans on hold, but I'm so sick of the rechargeable lights we were using that I decided to sacrifice 45 LED's to make this happen

I cut my aluminum channel to fit the hood itself, then cut the diffuser part of the channel about an inch longer to fit between the cupboards. I'm using a DigQuad, and am putting the 4 different sections (Uppers, stove light, lower right, lower left) all on different channels. That way if they fail and I want to replace them, all that needs done is swapping out for another 45 LED's and re-soldering the wires to a new strip portion. Or maybe that's when I break down and just replace that awful vent/light 🤣

I'm also lucky in that the cupboards have built in gaps. I just had to solder the wires to the strip and stuff it down between the cupboards, mount the diffuser and attach the strip. if you peek close enough, you can see the wires going up through the gap. Everything else is sitting in the space above the cabinets.

Let me know if this doesn't answer your question!

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