Premium Trainer

[encgirl]

Does the Premium Trainer take into account metabolism?  Does it adjust your intake and workouts based on the weight, nutritional, and activity levels that you key in?

Thanks.

[LZeeW]

No, your Fitbit does that already. You entered your particular information in your settings.  The Fitbit collects data about your activity and calculates calorie burn.

The Trainer is part of the Premium package.  Premium gives you more in-depth analysis about your activities, sleep, and your food intake.  It gives you information that looks like this:

The Trainer part of Premium is the Trainer Tile that tracks Activity Calories separately.  You set the Trainer to gradually increase your Activity Calorie goals or keep a constant goal.  After 12 weeks you get a report that looks like this:

Like I said, you don't get this report until you complete 12 weeks.  Your progress for the current cycle comes from the the Trainer tile on the computer Dashboard.  I don't see it on the iOS app.

You can always try it for free.  In my example, I tried it for free, then waited a couple weeks before buying it.  It showed all the data going back to my free week -- and the three weeks when I didn't try so hard.  I have met my goal every week since.

Does this help?

[TandemWalker]

Hi @encgirl .

The Trainer Fitness Plan is a Fitbit Premium feature that sets a 12-week goal for you based on your historical data. You can ask your Trainer to either maintain or increase your activity levels.

Weekly goals cannot be manually adjusted, but if the Trainer determines that the goal is too easy or too hard for you to achieve, the option to edit your goal will be available once you have completed a week. That's all it does; and while it may not seem like much, to me it's one of the best features in the Premium package, and the one reason I will likely renew my Premium membership.  The 12-week plan increases the demand in small weekly increments; such that for a given week, you barely notice the additional effort required to meet your goal. But over the 12-week time span, those small weekly increments do make a big difference.

As for adjusting the amount of food you can eat during the day, your One already does that. When you set up your profile settings, Fitbit.com pegged your BMR.  As you log your food and activities during the day, everything gets adjusted. The Trainer functionality in the Premium subscription just adds one more tool to your kit by creating an additional incentive to improve your activity level, over a 12-week plan.

[encgirl]

My BMR is lower than the formula due to an illness in which I am trying to recover.  Therefore my numbers are going up quickly.  I was looking for-  if your intake was the recommended in the personal trainer, and you gained weight and body fat- and you were active/created the deficit does this system take this into account for your recommended intake; and adjust it based on the gains.  I am trying to increase my BMR but it's gonna be a slow process. 

[Jimbo51]

I've been using Fitbit for ablut 6 months now and just upgraded to premium. I like the reports so far but was looking for something different in the Trainer tab. It just looks like my dashboard. When will I get some help in my training? I ride a bike for 90% of my activity and want to know if the trainer part of the app will have activity specific training suggestions and goals?