Best place to put Fitbit on your body when it can't be on your wrist (or ankle)?

[plapp]

Hey all--

I've recently taken up roller skating. It's great exercise and gets me way more active than any of my other quarantine exercises have so far, including running.

My issue is that I've had to move my Fitbit Alta further up on my arm, since my wrist guards are in the way of where the Fitbit would usually be fastened. After I skate around for 1 to 1.5 hours, my Fitbit registers ZERO active minutes, even though I've been wildly swinging my arms around and sweating my brains out for 60+. It's also not really registering what should more or less be counted as steps. I'm thinking this is due to a combination of being further up on my arm and wedged up against the end of my wrist guards.

Is there a better place I can put the Fitbit so that it registers? Of course ankle is out of the question due to the skates. I used to breeze past my active minutes goal by just going on a leisurely walk, and now my rigorous skate workouts give me a big ol' 0.

Thanks!

[WendyB]

Only thing I can think of is the ankle.

You could buy and extender at Amazon so you could widen it and wear it above the skate

[Baltoscott]

Have you tried putting it in your pocket?  If you've got cargo shorts (guy thing, I know) it will see more movement than near your waist, but deep in a front pocket should see motion and some 'steps.'  

[Heybales]

I'd vote for body too.

But since there isn't exactly a lot of "step" impacts with skating - I'm curious what you think should be seeing as steps, or what it's going to pickup anyway.

Also, the formula that determines a step's distance, which then gives calories, which then gives Intensity for Active minutes - is based on walking/running - not skating.

So any "step" impacts happen to be seen will be starting the foundation of math with bogus info.

It really will be meaningless.

It's like the steps seen on a bike ride - which is just road vibration and has no bearing on the distance Fitbit thought the impact steps resulted in, nor the calories, nor the Active minutes. The whole string is a bunch of bogus info useless except for steps in a challenge (which I don't do anyway).

You can manually log the workout later for better calorie burn using the database since that could be important if you are in a diet.