Activity Questions

[jpacheco]

I have been using the Blaze for a week now. I have found a few things with it that are kind of confusing, maybe even a little funny.

1. My Dashboard shows that for the past week I have ridden a bike 3 times. Funny thing is I haven't been on a bike in over 10 years. I was mowing the lawn at the time. (maybe add an activity for yardwork?)

2. I used it while golfing yesterday. I set up the activity for golfing. I wear the Blaze on my left wrist, and each time I would follow through I would hit the button for finishing the activity. Best solution for this so far is to wear it upside down, so that those buttons are closer to be elbow.

Anybody else have strange experieinces yet?

[Colinm39]

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@jpacheco wrote:

I have been using the Blaze for a week now. I have found a few things with it that are kind of confusing, maybe even a little funny.

1. My Dashboard shows that for the past week I have ridden a bike 3 times. Funny thing is I haven't been on a bike in over 10 years. I was mowing the lawn at the time. (maybe add an activity for yardwork?)

2. I used it while golfing yesterday. I set up the activity for golfing. I wear the Blaze on my left wrist, and each time I would follow through I would hit the button for finishing the activity. Best solution for this so far is to wear it upside down, so that those buttons are closer to be elbow.

Anybody else have strange experieinces yet?

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@jpacheco I can answer your 1st point in this link.. I'm still waiting for Fitbit to give us an explanation of how it ascertains the movement type. But when you look at the link I feel it is close to the types of SmartTrack detection.

Let's hope other golfers contribute to your second point..

I'm really enjoying the Blaze because it is more stable on the HR lower levels. I don't get the spikes when I'm sleeping like I was getting with the Surge and Charge HR.

[Rich_Laue]

Unicycle riding has recorded as eliptical, i think becaise of the back and forth motion of the arms to keep ballance. This would be as the motion on an elyptical.

[jpacheco]

Update: At my wife's suggestion. I turned the Blaze backwards on my left arm do that the buttons faced toward my elbow. Seemed to work fine while golfing today, I just had to read the display upside down.

[AngelaMa]

Hello @jpacheco, @Rich_Laue and @Colinm39, it's great to have you here! @Colinm39 what a great explanation about exercise detected with SmartTrack! Thanks for sharing 🙂 @jpacheco thanks for sharing the update, tell your wife I'm glad to hear she found a workaround 😉 

Happy stepping! 🙂