Feature Request Info for Walk/Jog

[rbewoor]

Hi Fitbit Team,

I've been using the Blaze for about a little over a year now. It's always only for a jog or a walk. Lately I've also started walking with a weighted backpack. Overall very happy with the Blaze; keep up the good work!

I've got a three suggestions that I'd greatly appreciate if you could build into the app:

1) Pls refer the attached snapshots:
a) In the EXCERCISE menu, the start time is shown clearly along with distance, pace and avg heart rate. However, knowing the total time for the activity on this screen would be very nice and handy.
b) On looking at the details of the exercise, on the LAP SPLITS screen, the Time and the Pace columns display the same info and that is extraneous. Could you keep one of these two columns and replace the other with the Speed? Thus I can immediately look at time and speed for each lap (of 1km). E.g. 9'06'' time for 1km would be equivalent to 6.59 kmph. Thus I'd like to see info for this lap to show time as 9'06'' and speed 6.59 kmph.

Exercise menu screenshotLap Splits screenshot

2) This ones a little harder: I've already input my normal weight into the app. However, on days that I do a weighted backpack walk, I don't want to re-edit my body

weight to reflect the activity stats correctly and later have to edit it back to my normal body weight. My regular weight at around 70kgs. I walk with anything from 5kgs to 12kgs over 1-2 hours. So it makes a difference overall. Ideally, before I start, I'd like an optional editable field like "Extra weight" to input the weight I am going to carry for the activity. It would be fine even if I could edit this field post the activity. Thus for one activity I might enter 5kgs and for a different activity I might enter 12kgs. If I do this before the activity starts, when I complete the activity the stats would reflect the calorie count immediately. However, if you decide to implement editing this field only after the activity is complete, then only after I enter this field would the correct increased calories reflect. I am fine with that approach too.

@Fellow Community members: I invite you to share your thoughts regarding these suggestions.

@Fitbitteam: Are you by any chance working on these ideas already? I look forward to your response.

Thanks,
Rohit

[AlejandraFitbit · Accepted solution]

A warm welcome to the Community @rbewoor. I think these are great ideas, thank you very much for sharing them and for the images. I took the liberty and searched for similar requests but didn't find any, please visit our feature suggestions board and share your suggestions.

Happy stepping! 

[rbewoor]

Hi @AlejandraFitbit,

Thanks for your words of encouragement and for checking about previous comments.

I've copied the original post into the features section here: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Additional-Info-for-Walk-Jog-and-Weighted-backpa....

Hoping its gets picked by the concerned team and implemented at the earliest.

Thanks,

Rohit