Question for those of you who bike or do other types of exercise that the Fitbit does not register..

[SLS]

Question for those of you who bike or do other types of exercise that the Fitbit does not register.....do you convert your activity into steps?

Yesterday I biked 16 miles in two hours. Out of curiosity I looked up the conversion and found cycling to be equivalent to approx. 100 steps per minute. I think I'm selling myself short by not converting and recording the steps. I do manually enter my other activity but it doesn't change my step count.

Also, if I did convert to steps, should I still enter the activity manually? I don't want to be given too much credit!

[Yvvy]

I bike a lot when the weather here is cooperative. I found that if I take off the stride length (my steps were still correct when I did that) then I clip it to my sock that I picked up the majority of my steps. Other people disagree with that but it worked for me. I was frustrated that I could enter activity but not get credit for steps. At least I got something this way

[Mary]

I think that it'd be easier to instead focus on your daily calorie burn than your steps count, on days you cycle.  Though I've stuck mine on my sock for cycling at times, just because I too get caught up in the steps goal.  

[SLS]

I have a Flex, so clipping it elsewear is not an option.  I know I really should focus on my calories burned, but I question how accurate that really is.  Fitbit gave me 488 calories for my ride yesterday and MapMyRun gave me 860, that is a huge difference.  It's not good either way.  I don't want to eat too much and I can't eat too little or I won't lose.  Ugh.....which is why I'm obsessed with the steps, I guess.

I think I'm going to try converting to steps when I cycle and see what the calorie burned difference is and make that comparison.  I will have to log just one or the other, otherwise I will be getting too many calories burned.

[chela1260]

I agree with that. Seems if it's on you then your foot is moving and you should get steps.

[Mary]

Fitbit gave you 488 from wearing it or from logging it from the activities database?  If from wearing it, throw that out.  If it's from the activities database, you just need to decide which seems more accurate to you.  

860 is an awful lot.  According to this, at 160 lbs. it'd take almost 3 hours.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/exercise/ART-20050999