Charge 5 logs steps while IT KNOWS I'm biking!

[JustMEbiking]

I start a biking exercise which was logged OK.

The problem is that during the bike exercise it also logged steps (thousands of them!).

I'm a new user and this very disappointing. The device is explicitly being told that I'm on a bike, yet it loggs steps...

[Julia_G · Accepted solution]

Hi, @JustMEbiking , this has been a debate pretty much since I first owned a Fitbit that had exercise tracking (which is quite a few years!). The problem is about half of the bikers want steps (as in why can’t they convert wheel spins to steps?) and the other half wants all steps suppressed (as in your enquiry).  As I have followed this Community for years, my rough guess is that it is pretty much evenly divided between those who want steps and those who don’t.  

Basically your Fitbit is at heart a pedometer (albeit a very sophisticated one).  I am afraid it is going to count steps…. In this case I think it is best to consider steps, along with distance, as a unit of progress rather than a literal count of individual steps.  I am sorry not to have a better solution for you. 

[JustMEbiking]

Thanks for your answer Julia. I can see the logic in the approach though imo "steps" should be used to count the amount of walk you do outside of an exercise.

I guess this means it also continues counting steps during a running exercise. Is this correct? 

[Julia_G]

@JustMEbiking , yes it definitely counts steps during running exercises.