You Don’t Need to Burn More Calories

1,086 days of calorie data showed me calories burned don’t tell the whole story

I wear an Oura ring. It tracks my sleep, my heart rate, my steps, my workouts. It knows when I lift. It knows when I do housework. It knows when I ride my motorcycle for two hours on a Saturday afternoon.

Last Friday I did 15 exercises in 43 minutes: seated leg press, Romanian deadlifts, pull-ups, incline press, rows, overhead press, cable crossovers, le…