Does fitbit take incline into account on a treadmill?

[Melanie40]

I am walking on a treadmill 3-4 times weekly and gradually increasing the incline 0.5% per week. I am not doing an hour at 4.5%. While I know that FitBit tracks my steps, is it able to sense the incline and take into account that a higher incline is more difficult? If not, is there any way to enter the incline?

[josephz2va]

Type Treadmill on the search engine for your log activities. There's four options. General, 5%, 10%, 15%. On the PC version it has an option to enter calories manually. If you used a Polar HRM, you can view how many calories are estimated that have been burned and enter that manually on the FitBit app/PC.

[MatthewFitbit]

As @josephz2va has mentioned, the best way to record time on an exercise machine is by manually logging the activity.

Fitbit trackers that are capable of counting floors (like the One) will notice when you are moving along an incline - but none of our devices are capable of detecting this when you aren't actually increasing in elevation.

[Heybales]

Since you have weight, pace, time, and incline, might as well get best estimate as possible.

This is more accurate than HRM too, studies have shown within 4% of measured, with HRM's being easily upwards of 40% depending on how cheap it is and if it has VO2max stat.

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs.html

Gross option is what you would log, to replace Fitbit's inaccurate estimate, as mentioned by others as to why.

This would include if walking with a weighted backpack for instance, where Fitbit would not know about extra weight.

[fit_gramma]

i also use the treadmill for incline walking.

i start at 2.5% incline and while listening to music and bring up my pace for the first 2 songs to 3.6 mph ( aprx 7-8 minutes). i then increase the incline by 1% with each new song, after 45 minutes i am up to 13.5% incline mintaining the 3.6 pace. after 45 minutes i start to bring it down. with each new song i decrease the incline by 1.5% and pace by .1 for aprx 15 minutes. this burns over 550 calories and covers nearly 3.63 miles or 5k in an hour.

if this had been entered as a walk for the same time period it would only show 240 calories burned