Add cross country skiing and downhill to Blaze

[mon.privat]

When will it be possible to add Cross country skiing and downhill to Blaze?

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[AlejandraFitbit]

A warm welcome to the Forums @mon.privat.

I think it would be great to have more exercise shortcuts options for the Blaze. I recommend taking a look at the Customizable excercice shortcuts request and see what our team has planned for this.

In the meantime, keep in mind that you can always create a custom activity by doing the following from a computer:

1. Go to http://www.fitbit.com/activities to see your activity log. Start typing in the search box under 'Log Activities".
2. Enter any physical activity you find yourself doing often.
3. After adding the activity, there will be the option to customize the activity via duration, distance (if applicable) start time and calories.

I hope this helps, see you around. 

[phatbitzr]

Manually entering downhill skiing in tthe activity log is useless.  It assumes one is continuously skiing and get an insanely number of calories burned, whereas in reality, most of the time, one is sitting down on the chairlift.  I just set the tracker to 'workout' and let the heartrate determine my calorie burn.  Although I ended up with over 7000 steps for that activity.