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Treadmill accuracy

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‎07-26-2016 21:16 - last edited on ‎06-27-2019 20:02 by

‎07-26-2016 21:16 - last edited on ‎06-27-2019 20:02 by

Okay so I have been reading the Blaze forums on Treadmill items and accuracy issues.  In one thread I saw that the individual started the Treadmill and had it post exercise convert to run.  In another I saw concerns on accuracy of steps and distance.

 

So tomorrow while traveling I was planning to do a treadmill exercise and am now concerned that it could have issues recording.  Does anyone have current status of known bugs/issues for the blaze and treadmills?

 

Thanks,

 

 

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Andhanni - North Georgia Area - Fitbit Blaze - "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
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‎07-27-2016 04:42

‎07-27-2016 04:42

To add to my OP...

 

This morning got up and went to the Hotel Gym and did the treadmill.  I did 30 minutes plus a 5 minute cool down.  The timer was accurate, but my Blaze had my HR peaking and valleying once I let go of the HR sensors on the Treadmill.

 

Additionally the Treadmill averaged my HR decline from 115 to 105 during the cool down while the FB seemed to drop me from 143 to 87 HR before returning to 100 at the end of the cool down.

 

Finally the Treadmill claimed I walked 1.25 miles (speed between 2 and 2.5) with an incline of 3.0.  Fitbit claims I only did 0.8 miles.

 

Why the differences???

 

 

Andhanni - North Georgia Area - Fitbit Blaze - "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
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‎07-27-2016 08:59

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‎07-27-2016 08:59

Where you holding onto the treadmills hand rail? This will prevent your Fitbit from detecting arm motions

 Also the tracker does not measure miles, it counts steps, how was your step count. It then takes your step count and multiplies your stride to guess at the distance. Now please realize that the stride while on the treadmill will be determined by the speed the treadmill is going at. 

I'm also not going to go into detail, a search works, but holding on to the rails does more harm than good to the body and reduces caloric burn. 

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