Tracking Exercise - StairClimber, Bike

[bryandrev]

Hello, 

If I manually log using the Stair Climber or Bike does fitbit calculate this in my Steps and/or stairs climbed? 

[FerdinandFitbit]

Hey there @bryandrev. Great to see you in the Community Forums! 🙂

When it comes to steps and stairs, in order for your tracker to record them, for steps, you need to move your arms in a walking motion way, if you're using a stair climber but you're holding on to the rails, steps will not be counted.

Now, it will for sure not track any floors climbed because you're not really going up. Fitbit uses an altimeter which detects changes in the atmospheric pressure and knows when you're going up or down, so when you're on a stair climber, you're not really going up at all and it will not track this.

For biking, if you're on a real bike, it will not track any steps for it as the way you're moving is not the same as when you're walking, so most likely, smart track (which is the feature that automatically detects your exercises), will detect your bike rides or you can start them directly on your Blaze but no steps will be recorded for that.

Hope this information helps and anything else you may need, let me know!

[bryandrev]

It did not. I was asking if I log an event such as a stair climber through the app would it add the stairs climbed?

Also if you use LFconnect which is a compatible app with fitbit would it add the steps?

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[FerdinandFitbit · Accepted solution]

I see, I'm sorry @bryandrev. If you log an activity on a stair climber from the app, it will only show the calories  burned and the time you spent on the activity but it will not give you the amount of floors climbed as it needs to detect it with the altimeter on a real stair climbing activity for it to count.

Now, if you use LFconnect, you'll be able to sync your activity but will not give you steps if it's for biking for example. For other activities as Running or Walking, it should give you steps.

Hope this answers your question.

[bryandrev]

That's disappointing but thank you for the answer