Blaze Exercise tracking shuts off

[philnamy531]

I tried out the exercise mode today, and while at kickboxing about every other time I punch the bag with the hand/arm that my Blaze resides on, it kept turning the tracking on and off. For the course of my 55 minute class I had 5 logged activities in that time frame, not accounting for the entire time working out. While I know why this probably happened, is there a way to prevent it? I currently have my tracker set to quick view, so I can imagine that every time I went to punch, it woke up, and the glove hit the screen either stopping or starting the tracking.  I am sure that I can toggle the quick-view mode off, and it will fix this, but on the other hand I don't want to keep changing my settings. Any ideas other than what I have come up with?  I also thought about moving the tracker out from under my glove, but my wristband isn't large enough, as I would have to move it a good 3" above my wrist to get it out from under the glove.

Other than this, and the fact I have to swipe away to get to the exercise screen, then find my activity (where my charge HR I just held down the button to start tracking), I really do like it. I would have gone with the Surge, but I wanted something a little nicer looking and with a color screen. I am mostly a "step" counter, but have started to make full fitness tracking part of my life by doing more exercising with programs (Cardio kickboxing and Spin classes). Thanks for reading!

[SantiR]

@philnamy531 Welcome to the Fitbit Community! There is an option in which you can manually log your activities. You don't have to set up your tracker to activity mode to do this. There is an specific option for kickboxing and another for cardio kickboxing you can select from and log. It will give you accurate information for those specific activities. You can log it from your online dashboard or from the Fitbit app. I left a picture below showing how this looks on the online dashborad.

Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes! 

[SassyPants-21]

I have a question. Walking is one of my activities. I like to do. I hit walk ,but all it does is a stopwatch. I'm connected to my phone gps. But if I want it to track my route .I need a third party app don't I.

[mcrmama]

I did a walk tonight using the walk exercise mode. It gave me distance, pace, steps etc. Afterwards in the Fitbit app it gave me a map of my walk.

[Rich_Laue]

@SassyPants-21 As @mcrmama stated ypir Blaze connects to the phones GPS and recipes yput rope walked. After ypu sync their will be a map on the event data. The stopwatch on the bottom of the screen is telling you the minutes ypu have been exercising. For this map to be shown you will habe top rapt doe the Blaze to connect to your phone.

[SantiR]

@SassyPants-21 I hope you're doing well! Feel free to check this article about tracking exercise with your tracker and GPS.  You will get a map once you sync your tracker. 

Let me know how it goes!