Blaze and treadmill accuracy? Steps vs distance

[Jodielonkoski]

Hi! I'm just a little confused, I used to have the charge and I know there was an issue with the accuracy on a treadmill because you were technically walking in place and hoped with the treadmill option on the blaze that would be fixed, my distance is still off when I finish my run and read some other forums but am a little confused. Even if the distance is off is my step count still accurate? Because I've been manually adding the distance it misses but if the step count is accurate I should stop doing that and just accept the slightly off mileage. Any Info is appreciated, thanks!

[AdamMSC · Accepted solution]

Your step count shouldn't be affected by your being on a treadmill: you're still moving your arms and legs. The distance is off because it uses your esimated stride length x the number of steps it records to get your total distance. The treadmill is estimating distance based on how many revolutions the belt makes.

[Rich_Laue]

Ypu Jane the ability to check your step count. Simply take a walk on the treadmill while counting the steps in your head,  now compare the two results.

As stated above holding on to the bars is never recommend,  and can cause more injury than good. 

[Jodielonkoski]

Thanks! This makes more sense now

[lcdearman · Accepted solution]

I have noted an issue in a different post that is located here. I have seen that when I walk or run on the treadmill, the steps are counted correctly but there seems to be a problem if I select "Treadmill" as the exercise. It does not appear to apply the stride length so the distance is way off. If I walk on the treadmill and select "Walk" as the exercise and turn off GPS, then the stride length is applied to my step count and the distance is correct.

[Jodielonkoski]

Thanks! I'll try using the walk next time I use the treadmill and see if it's more accurate. I used the treadmills today and counted my steps in my head and my blaze was slightly off but maybe it'll be more accurate if I choose walk

[Jrenicl2]

I'm having the same trouble with the charge, but the revoltions of the belt don't really make much sense to me.

Jim

[adv1213]

I have had this problem with my Flex, Charge and now Blaze.  Someone at FitBit should log this as an issue and resolve.  Based on other threads Apple has figured out how to get this to work, so FitBit should too.

[Ktorres]

So which should be correct? I've used my blaze many times outside with GPS so it knows my stride, but is ahead of the treadmill by almost a mile and a half by the end of the run. 

[Rich_Laue]

Well im going to disagree with s few posts above.

The speed at wich you walk/run will affect your stride. The faster the body moves, the further the body leans forward, the further tye body leans forward the futher the foot reaches out. Thr further tye foot reaches the longer tye stride.

In general to get an accurate distance, the stride needs to be set for the speed of the treadmill. Not your normal soped on a free run.