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Anybody using the fitbit force while cycling?

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‎01-13-2014 16:07

‎01-13-2014 16:07

Anyone using the Fitbit Force while cycling?  Just looking for ideas for how to make it more useful to record exercise while riding.  Put the Force on my ankle?  I can log in the activity but wondering if there is an automatic way to do it.

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‎01-13-2014 17:56

‎01-13-2014 17:56

What I do is i actually have a bike odometer that will track mileage,time,speed and all that good stuff and then when im done with my ride i log it under an activity on fitbit. Or if you have a smartphone their are lots of apps that you can use that will do actually the same thing that is just as accurate as the bike odometer. I use strava cycling which at the push of the start button will map your ride and give you time spent riding, milage and a few other good features. So hopefully that helps ya.

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‎01-13-2014 17:56

‎01-13-2014 17:56

What I do is i actually have a bike odometer that will track mileage,time,speed and all that good stuff and then when im done with my ride i log it under an activity on fitbit. Or if you have a smartphone their are lots of apps that you can use that will do actually the same thing that is just as accurate as the bike odometer. I use strava cycling which at the push of the start button will map your ride and give you time spent riding, milage and a few other good features. So hopefully that helps ya.

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‎06-02-2015 19:53

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‎06-02-2015 19:53

I use an app called Cyclemeter to track my cycling. It is a highly rated cycling app. as it also maps terraine, elevation etc., in detail. ($5.00 app.) Fitbit is a pedometer. It is great for walking and running but I think cycling confuses it. I think it also gets confused with the high heart rate when I'm cycling as it doesn't know what I'm doing. I use the Cyclemeter app to produce the stats and "log" it as an exercise after the fact. Fitbit has a "track" exercise feature, but I don't have a clue as to how long I'm going to be out when I go cycling. It depends totally on the terraine and how I feel. Today I opened "track exercise" and entered 1.30 hours before I started. When I got back I Cyclemeter said I had been out 2.14 hours. I deleted the "track exercise" and entered the information to the "log exercise" part of Fitbit. It seemed to work just fine. It was even able to average the heart rate 120 bpm and know to apply them to the cycle ride. I wish Fitbit would just allow an "import" of the data or a sync of the data from Cyclemeter. But this seems to be working and I feel the data in my Fitbit app is now more accurate. To everyone out there, if I am doing something that is giving me inaccurate data please let me know. Thanks

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