Once you know your BMR, the next step in managing your calorie budget is understanding how much energy you burn through activity. Kanvie uses METs (Metabolic Equivalent of Task) to estimate calories burned for exercises, workouts, and daily movements.

What is a MET?

A MET is a unit that estimates the energy cost of physical activities relative to your resting metabolic rate:

• 1 MET = energy burned while resting
• 2 METs = twice your resting energy expenditure
• 3 METs = three times your resting energy expenditure, and so on

Example

How Kanvie Uses METs

1. Exercises & Workouts

Each exercise (activity) in Kanvie has a MET value assigned to it based on intensity and type. Calories burned by an exercise are calculated with:

2. Daily Activities

You can track everyday movements (walking, chores, standing tasks) in the Activity tab of your diary. These are treated like “exercises” so that even non-gym activities count toward your total expenditure.

3. Integration with Devices & Other Apps

If you pair Kanvie with Apple Health or Health Connect, METs can complement tracked activity data from smart devices or other apps.

Practical Example

Calories burned from running

Let's say a person who weighs 70 kg runs for 30 minutes at 10 km/h (which has an MET of eta. 10):

Calories burned from walking

Now, if that same person also logs a 1-hour walk at 3 METs:

Total energy burned through activity

This total is then added to the BMR of the person to calculate their daily calorie budget on Kanvie:

Energy burned

Updated calorie budget

Learn more

• How Kanvie calculates your basal metabolic rate (BMR)
• How Kanvie calculates your daily calorie budget