Gotcha! Yeah it tracked it as a lot of steps, I just looked at the statistics. Next time I will wear it on my leg so that it doesn’t count the repeated movement as steps. Thanks for the feedback!
Edit: Did some research on the app I use and I’m currently unsure if steps are factored into the calorie count formula. It could just calculate based on heartrate alone. I guess this is something I’ll have to figure out during my next session.
I rock climb and when I take a day trip my steps are about 3-5 times what they should be. I’m not moving 80k steps and 134 flights of stairs. Same with yoyo. Extra hand movements and everything else add darastcially to the step and calorie count.
Stapping it to your leg won’t help much either. as thats not where the watches are made to be worn. The heart rate monitor works specifically well on the wrist because the viens are so close to the surface (based on my understanding). Also eveything is calibrated to work on the wrist so numbers will be off placing it anywhere else on the body.
No matter what physical exertion you do, the reality is that the body will burn more or less the same amount of calories per day. Physical exercise has very little to do with calorie utilization. The vast majority of calories are used to maintain brain-activity and body temperature.
If you want to lose weight; eat less food. If you want to become fit - do high-intensity workouts to raise the heart rate and lift weights to break down muscle tissue for later repair.
Sadly, yo-yo is not efficient for either.
My “step” count was amazing when I was in a bell choir!
The most steps I got was working in datacenters. So much walking
Thanks ma’ man. Good start 
In the interest of data collecting I think it would be wise to always keep the session to the same time, keeping the same routine and doing this for the next moth. So you have 30 data points to actually compare. Otherwise you get such a random result, that you can not gauge anything from that.
That way you could at least find out, if the tracker measures consistent and with the same metrics over time. Will still not tell you if the number is accurate, just how reliable the measurement is.
Thats sick! I also rock climb!
I use Whoop which is functional on any part of the body according to their website as long as the sensor is making contact with the skin. It is not a watch, it is a specialized tracker.
I remember a time when my apple watch detected that I was ‘swimming’ when I was actually yo-yoing. My flow must have been pretty on-point that session. FWIW, its definitely possible for yoyoing to be a workout. Watch some videos of Myles Gregory doing 4A, his style is amazing! I get exhausted just watching him sometimes 
I don’t really think of it as a workout exactly, but when I’m yoyoing at least I’m (usually) not drinking, eating and never (yet) sitting, so, in the words of Carl Spackler, “I’ve got that going for me…which is nice.”
as much as this is cool, there is no way yoyo for an hour can burn close to 700kcal
for comparison riding my bike at 17mph for an hour would burn between 600-800kcal
unless you think that the yoyoing had you that out of breath, i dont think your watch is accurate in this instance, ( as albertino said)
DANG I just checked out one of his freestyles, I can only imagine what his practice sessions look like. Definitely getting his cardio in for sure.
I’m doing some more testing today, I’ll report back later tonight. Should have some good data!
Alright so today I practiced Kamikaze 2 for an hour straight.
It’s a pretty chill tech trick, I recorded the activity and this time I kept the tracker on my leg so that it wouldn’t factor in arm movements as steps, and I’ll be wearing my tracker there at all times (even while not yo-yoing) from here on out. Here is the data for the activity:
108 calories
As I expected, since it was a more chill trick and my heart rate wasn’t very high for the session, the calories were much lower than my other more intense hour session yesterday. I’m going to assume these numbers are accurate since they basically match up with what I and pretty much everyone else expect when it comes to tech tricks.
Also so we have a baseline control cardio session to compare these cardio-yoyo (cardiyo if you will) sessions to, I ran at a light pace for an hour earlier today and tracked the data for it:
Tomorrow is a rest day for me but after that I will log an hour practice session for an Eli hop combo so that we can see if the leg tracker makes a difference. My personal hypothesis is that an hour of Eli hops will be comparable to my run, but I guess we will have to wait and see!
Sorry, throwing a yoyo is not cardio. Probably the only thing getting your heart pounding is the excitement of hitting your tricks…
Again. If you are actually looking to learn anything about your device or your yoyoing, you have to do it consistently over a longer period of time to get a proper dataset. Changing it up every time and doing whatever and wildly comparing tricks with your last run, will not give you any insight into what is at play.
What you set out to do is interesting, but if you go random it’s useless to everyone, including yourself.
I can understand that you don’t want to do only one trick for a month. How about splitting your YoYo-Session into two parts: The “Science”-part, where you only do one trick over and over for a fixed amount of time, to collect data (30 minutes). And a “freestyle”-part where you just do whatever you like that day.
This experiment could actually get you to a cool discovery: Either if the device is even able to count energy expense or if YoYo has an effect. Most likely you will get a null result where you have some data, but you don’t know what it says or if it says anything at all. But if you never collect proper data in the first place you have a nothing burger from the get-go.
Idk. Maybe something to think about.
Trying to get 3.0 is like trying to deep fry ur arm 
If we all start yoyoing while walking on treadmills, we would collectively be the most fit group of non professional athletes in the world
This seems a joke but is actually the only way to get some results, trick like the hooks sort of force you to squat, so if you do an hour of those, squatting plus moving the arms you start than to do some cardio, add to this all the contest stuff, where you move around, start to turn your hips and your body, flexing your spine and similar stuff, if you probably do 3 or 4 hours of that you start to get some workout.
Still I think one hour proper session at the gym or any sport is soooo much better and effective
The first thing that needs to happen here, is a baseline result. Right now we have nothing to go off.
I don’t think it’s random. It just depends on the intensity of the session. For example practicing Eli hops for an hour should be comparable to practicing hooks for an hour in terms of strain and intensity of the workout. And I’d imagine practicing any tech trick like kamikaze 2 would give me similar results. As long as the tricks are relatively similar to each other it should give me consistent data.
Or maybe I just don’t understand what you are trying to convey, I’m not really sure what you mean by baseline result either. If you would like to contribute your own data or do your own experiment with the method you are suggesting then feel free to post your results here! For now I will continue to post data on my yoyo sessions for anyone who finds it interesting.
Yeah I won’t be replacing my cardio with Yoyo anytime soon until I confirm the data, and even then I still enjoy running and lifting so I’ll definitely keep doing it. It’d just be cool to have another cardio alternative!
