Peloton + Fitbit - Double Counting Calories

[TLC1993]

Hi there,

My peloton devices (app and bike) are pushing my workouts (cycling, strength etc) to my fitbit app. During these workouts, I also log the activity on my Charge 6 so I can track my heartrate over the workout. This results in two workouts being posted to my fitbit dashboard: the peloton one, and the one that I tracked on my fitbit. Both exercises list a different amount of calories burned, but the values are typically pretty similar. I've noticed that my daily total of calories burned includes the sum of the calories burned in both activities. I've read that fitbit is supposed to override one of the workouts if they're posted for the same time period - however it appears my daily calories total is using the calories from both exercises. Is this the case? Should I not be logging an exercise on my fitbit when I begin a peloton class? 

I guess another solution would be to stop peloton workouts from being pushed to my fitbit and just track the exercise on my fitbit so I can get my heartrate stats for the specific activity, but I'm surprised that this has not been addressed - I expect lots of people are logging a fitbit activity at the same time they're taking peloton classes which means their calories are being double counted in their dashboard.  

Any insight on this would be much appreciated - thank you!

[TLC1993]

Update: I've been playing around with deleting some of the duplicative exercises and seeing how it changes my stats: it looks like for the daily total calories, only the calories pushed by the peloton app are being counted and when those are deleted, the daily calories total defaults to the calories burned during your fitbit exercise logged at the same time. So no double counting there (though my fitbit calories burned tend to be higher so I'll still be disconnecting peloton from my fitbit - bummer). 

However if you go into the exercise tab, and look at the metric that shows your "energy burned" from exercise for the day/week/month etc on the graph, that value is double counting the calories from both the peloton logged activity and the activity logged on your fitbit at the same time. It doesn't appear that this energy burned from exercise metric is used for calculating total daily calories burned, which is good however calories are being double counted here.

Hope this helps others that are also experiencing the same confusion! Again, appreciate any other input/insight. 

[Aimster65]

Thank you!  I’ve been running into the same issue and was concerned about it double counting.  This is really helpful!

[JimR901]

Same problem and saw same thing.  Since my Fitbit uses HR for calories and Peleton does not (no HR monitor) I decided to stop sharing Peleton workouts with FB.  Easy example.  A 10 min arm/shoulder light weight routine is Always 56 calories on Peleton and more like 120 on FB.  When I do both then FB uses the 56 calories and disregards the HR driven FB numbers.  However for “active minutes” it is using FB HR data.  Confusing.  Make sense?