How do I track different exercises on Charge 5?

[Gill1954]

What’s the best app to use on charge 5 for aerobics , run, treadmill or interval?

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[Wibby · Accepted solution]

Hello, 

My apologies if I've misunderstood your question and am telling you things you already know.

I'm not sure there is an App as such.  There should be an Exercise App preinstalled on the Charge 5 and visible on your phone/computer.

If you want to set Exercise Shortcuts so you can just tap on them to start the different exercises on your tracker, you can organize them by following these steps (you'll need to turn on bluetooth):

On the Today screen on your phone, select your profile on the top left.

Scroll down to Charge 5 and select.

Scroll down the screen to Exercise Shortcuts and select.

When you open that, there should be a list of activities that are also on your tracker.

You can have up to 6 that will show on your Charge 5 screen.

If ones you don't want are there, you can swipe to the left to delete them.  Then a space opens up to add a different one.

You can do this by selecting + Exercise Shortcut and scrolling down the list until you find what you want.

When you sync with your tracker, they should all turn up in the order you have on your phone, when you swipe across to Exercise on your Charge 5.

On your Charge 5, you can scroll up from the bottom to choose the exercise you're looking for and then press start.

I hope this helps, and sorry if it doesn't.

[Gill1954]

Yes this helped a lot, thank you

L Sent from my iPhone

[Wibby]

Oh good!  I'm really glad!  Happy exercising!

[MJG5555]

I am having trouble with the directions.  When I swipe left, I was able to turn off an exercise but not delete.  What occurred was the exercise is now listed as ignored. Can you explain what else I should be doing?  Thanks 🙏 

[71strong]

On my phone I removed interval workout, added outdoor workout to stand in for gardening which I can't add, and changed the order of the exercises.  After synching, the phone shows the new order, but the charge 5 has not changed.  What next?

[LZeeW]

@71strong   Before you try to get things in the right order on your device, Outdoor Workout is the incorrect choice for gardening.  Outdoor workout is for non-step based activities like kayaking and downhill skiing.  Use Workout for your gardening.  The choice isn't intuitive, because Fitbit put the Interval Workout icon on the Outdoor Workout choice, too.  If I remember correctly, the Charge 4 shows a figure in a kayak.

After you fix your shortcut choices, try re-syncing.  Try restarting your Charge 5, then re-syncing.

[71strong]

Thank you.  That was very helpful and it worked.