Logging exercise removes log of active minutes

[Mysirii]

I just noticed this but certain types of exercise cancel out active minutes. For example I logged dancing for 50 minutes and it removed the 47 active minutes it auto logged. I'm not overly concerned just curious why.

[SteveH]

I've seen this before and have a theory about it. When an activity is tracked by a fitbit it sees peaks and troughs in your effort levels and it is these peaks that tend to get the active minutes. However, when you manually log an activity it doesn't know anything about peaks and troughs so it spreads the effort evenly over the time. It is this reduction in peaks that leads to the loss of active minutes.

[Mysirii]

Hmm I'm not so sure about that. It only seems to apply to certain types of excercise. When I log my stationary biking it accounts for the active minutes. I have the charge HR so it's monitoring my heart rate. It's a decent theory but it had already registered the active minute. They only disappeared because I said I was excercising by dancing. If I'd logged it as biking (I did this to test it) it keeps the active minutes. I suspect it's less of a fit bit error and more of an error in the app.

[JuanJoFitbit]

@Mysirii A warm welcome to our Fitbit Community! I'd like to thank @SteveH for the contribution of your theory my friend. Since your post @Mysirii, has had no response, it caught my attention and I'd like to know if your Dancing activity keeps losing the active minutes when you log this activity since I'd like to follow up on this.

Looking forward to your response my friend! 

[Mysirii]

It does. I've been pressing the button on my fitbit to log a workout instead so I haven't done the manual log of Dancing in a while but when I last did it I was still having the problem. The active minutes are there prior to the manual log of Dancing but not after. It wasnt a huge issue since I could log my excercise other ways so I didn't pursue it further.

[ErickFitbit]

@Mysirii If your "dancing" activity is logged during the same time period that your tracker earned Active Minutes, the Active Minutes will be negated by the manually logged "dancing" activity as it overwrites the activity for that timeframe.

[Mysirii]

But when I manually log biking or walking it doesn't do that. Just dancing.

[Cathy60]

Did you find a solution for this ? Mine has just started removing it when I manually log walking. If I delete what I have manually logged then it puts it back...very annoying!

[SteveH]

@Cathy60 I think this is just the way it works. See post 2 in this thread for my theory as to why it happens. If that's correct then there's no way round it.

[Cathy60]

Thanks Steve. It has just started happening (since 25 August) and doesn't happen for other activities such as Zumba, it's only a problem when I log walking which I thought was odd.

[pstuckmeyer]

I have the same problem with manual entry of exervise after the event...I lose active minutes which often equal the duration of yhe exercise.  This must be a software bug since we can have exercise goals for the week plus active minute gosls daily...they should not cancel each other out.  Does fitbit monitor this community for issues?