Calorie tracking while downhill skiing

[phatbitzr]

I wore my Fitbit Blaze while downhill skiing for the day and based on my heartrate, it gave me a daily calorie count of 3109.  I decided to manually enter the 2 skiing sessions 3h45m and 1h45m, totaling 5h30m (before and after lunch) as ski activities, and it gave me a daily calorie count of 4231 with a calorie count of 1542 and 720, and a flat calorie rate of 34 calories every 5 min (408 calories/hr).  This is obviously not right.  I presume it thinks I am continuously going downhill without ever getting onto a chairlift.

I am also using the Trace Snow ski app, which tracks everything except my exertion.  It estimates calories on each run, along with total calories burned during the session (I guess that's including its guess of my MBR).  The calories from skiing count is 825 and total calories is 1097.  When I manually added the 2 sessions, along with the accumulated calorie count of the runs in those sessions (plus the proportion of MBR it thinks I burned), which were 791 and 306, the total calories for the day went down to 3067.  The hourly calorie rate were 216 and 180 for each of the sessions.  This is still a little lower than if I just have the calorie count based on my heart rate, but the main issue is that the calorie graph is ruler flat for the activity session instead of it fluctuating up and down based on my heart rate.

I guess if there are ways for the activity session not to put its own estimate of calorie rate, but use the heart rate instead.  Otherwise, I would likely be better off not logging the ski sessions and have the true calorie rate displayed.

[Rich_Laue]

Manually entering an exercise properly requires some guess work. Guess wrong and the cakoriescwill be wrong. Did you let Fitbit decide on the calories or did you enter the calories burnt when add the event .

Please be aware when manually adding an activity Fitbit assunesatge tracker was not used. 

By using the workout mode you will be able to edit the activity type after a sync 

[phatbitzr]

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@Rich_Lauewrote:

Manually entering an exercise properly requires some guess work. Guess wrong and the cakoriescwill be wrong. Did you let Fitbit decide on the calories or did you enter the calories burnt when add the event .

Please be aware when manually adding an activity Fitbit assunesatge tracker was not used. 

By using the workout mode you will be able to edit the activity type after a sync 

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When I manually entered an activity, I first tried to let fitbit estimate my calories based on the activity I entered (Ski).  It gave a wildly high number.

Then I entered it manually based on another app utilizing GPS data, estimating when I am on the trail and when I am on the chairlift.  That number came closer to the fitbit's general calorie estimate based on my heart rate.

I did not use workout mode because I am never able to change the type of workout after syncing.  I think fitbit removed that feature a while ago.

[Rich_Laue]

I just tried, it is still there. 

On the web there will be a pencil to the right spear with a mouse over the record. 

[phatbitzr]

I don't see that pencil in either the old version I am running (2.15.1 on android 4.2.2) or the new version (2.66 on tablet w/android 6.0.1).

Scrolling through my excercise log, I do see a couple of walk sessions that has the pencil next to it.  I think an activity can be edited if it was auto recognized, and one can change the type of activity in case it got recognized as a wrong type.  Apparently, it did not recognize my skiing as an activity, that is why I manually entered it.  Plus, all my other activities, I manually start it, so I can't change it afterward.

[phatbitzr]

Weird, the old skiing activity which were recorded as 'workout', now can be edited with the old android app, new android app and dashboard.  I don't know if Fitbit changed the activity type in their end so it can become editable, given that I there was no update to the old android app.

I edited the activity type on the dashboard from workout to skiing, and now I lost the ability to change it to something else.  Although I tested on another Walk activity I had around by changing it to Skiing, and later was able to change it back to Walk.  Is it suppose to be an edit where you can change only once?

[Rich_Laue]

@phatbitzr your correct only workout and auto detected exercises have been and are edited. Once the name has been changed they can not be edited again. 

[phatbitzr]

I did change a 'workout' activity to 'skiing', and later changed back to 'workout'.  Maybe fitbit didn't register it as a changed activity and blocked out the ability to edit it.  But that's good to know that I am able to edit it now.