Add rowing as an exercise shortcut on Fitbit devices

[Schneidogg]

There is a hiking app, golf app, stairclimber, tennis, spinning, and yoga but NO ROWING APP. My HR Charge 5 was just updated and I’m ticked that no rowing app showed up. What’s wrong with you developers?!?! Rowing is a popular exercise and it shouldn’t be this difficult to create an app to track the REPET

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[Rowdy155]

Agreed! Row a million plus meters per year!  Would be nice to have that in exercise category…..

[MarreFitbit]

Hi there, @Schneidogg. Thanks for stopping by in the Fitbit Community Forums. @Rowdy155 A warm welcome to you! Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us, I understand how important it is to you to have Rowing Machine as an exercise option on your Fitbit devices. 

We rely on feedback like yours to help us develop products and features that we know our community wants to see. I'd suggest adding your comment and voting for this feature: Add Rowing to Exercise app on all Fitbit devices. We look forward to reviewing your input. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

In the meantime, please note that when a specific exercise is not available within the exercises we offer (such as Rowing), we suggest to use "Workout". Once you finish the activity, you can rename the activity to "Rowing Machine". Note that the information to enter will change depending on the nature of the exercise. To give you an example, if you change from "Workout" to "Run", it won't remove the calories but will add distance as the main stat to be displayed, this happen depending of the activity you are categorizing. However, your the data already tracked will be still counted for your daily totals.

For more information about how to do so, see How do I add, edit, or delete Fitbit data and activities?

[LZeeW]

@MarreFitbit   Version 4.04 of the Fitbit app  removed the ability to rename an activity.  Users can't rename a Workout to Rowing.

[MarreFitbit]

@LZeeW Thanks for sharing that! This issue was already reported to our team and they're currently investigating. For more updates about this inconvenience, please see this thread.