Calories burned confusing

[martadelas]

I do numerous activities for which I add tracking manually (yoga, spinning, kickboxing), and have to say it's confusing. I added a spinning session and it won't log it without distance, so I put in an estimate. And everything would have been fine if it wasn't for the fact, that I accidentally put 1km instead of 10 and it still showed the same number of calories burned. If the distance makes no difference, why do I have to log it? And if it does, then why the same number for 1km and 10km?

I have to say, it seems calories burned for manually logged activities are nowhere near what they should be.

[Heybales]

I just checked.

Spinning distance is optional.

You click on "Don't know my Distance", and are allowed to pick intensity level.

Which frankly - distance on a spin bike is totally made up bogus figure anyway, with no relation to real world speeds, and formula attempting to use those distance/time/speed stats would be inflated calorie burn.

There may be a bug for what you were attempting - because generally, if you pick the right intensity, and for some things that does mean the right pace/speed, then the database is based on studies that found the calorie burn based on resting metabolism - which Fitbit has and applies to your manually logged workout.

Now, depending on device there may be no need to log it manually.

If this is Charge HR or Surge using accurate HR info - then don't manually log it - just start an activity record to see the stats later.

If this is non-HR based device, but rather step-based - then you did right, lifting, swimming, rowing, bike, stair climber, elliptical, ect should all be manually logged.