Needing help with fitness tracking

[Dontcallmecandi]

Hello! Newbie here! 🙂 I am 1 week into my new Charge HR (and considering giving this to the hubs and getting the blaze but that's another thread...) I seem to be struggling with understanding how it all works. My post might seem jumbled as I try and present my frustration.

I take a 60 minute Barre 3 class 4-6x/week. The first 30 minutes is definitely more high intensity: weights, moving up and down, etc. whereas the last 30 minutes can best be described as lower intensity floor work, maybe a close example would be yoga. My Charge HR only recognizes this hour long class as 30 minutes of physical activity. So technically I meet my goal, but dangit, I want credit for the full hour. The last 2 classes I utilized the timer function (press the button on the side) and that gives me a recorded workout but it doen't change my active minutes- those stay at 30.

Now, I know I can manually enter the additional 30 minutes but it seems as though the heart rate is recording accurately for the full hour (I average around 400-450 cal burned per class). I'm worried that if I manually enter an additional 30 minutes of activity, to bring me up to a full 60 minutes, that it will end up awarding me additional calories burned which, could throw off my calorie allowance for the day. I don't want to eat more if they are "fake" calories. Make sense?

Example: Yesterday my fitbit recorded my 60 minute class as 30 minutes and 428 calories burned. If I add another 30 minutes of Barre class manually, it also credits me with a little over 200 calories burned. So in order to log a full 60 minut workout, I would be also awaring myself false calories burned.

This seems confusing, I hope I am making sense. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding how it all works. Thanks in advance for your help 🙂

[WendyB]

I would not add it. I would just leave it as is. Yoga really does not give you Active Minutes. Yes its hard but it is still low Intensisty.

If you really wanted you could stop it recording and then Manually add the last 30 minutes.  I myself would just leave as it is. But thats me

[emili]

I wouldn't add it either. I have a similar experience- when I am running, walking anything cardio or lifting with real intensity- all is well. But the cool down or abs work or leg work- doesn't count towards active minutes. I am totally OK with that- because technically its true- I am not really "active" since my heart rate is in normal range or slightly above. So I am better for it- leaner, stronger, etc- but the calorie burn isn't really there- so you said it- eating fake calories. Just my opinion..