Recording a body combat class

[SunsetRunner]

I regularly do a body combat class and I wear my fitbit one to the class, this normally records about 2,000 steps for the class. But wondered if this was the correct way to record the activity?

Should I leave the Fitbit One in the locker and enter the class as additional activity?

I know roughly how many calories I burn in a 45 min class, so can enter them manually, any ideas or advice is greatly appreciated.

[Heybales]

Some people like to keep their step counts specifically on what Fitbit is trying to do - keep your daily non-exercise activity up. That way they can tell if they are slowing down outside of exercise, or seasonal, ect. Studies have shown undereating, the body slows that type of activity down.

So they don't want step counts in exercise, even running, to show up in daily step count.

Others want steps from anything they can fanangle it from, even swimming (yep, that was a topic), and could care less if the calorie count is any resemblance to a good estimate - I'd saying missing the forest for the trees - since weight loss is eating less than you burn, not the number of steps you take.

So you can leave it on and get extra steps - but indeed manually log an activity and use your best estimate of the workout because walking steps calorie burn isn't going to be equal to whatever you are actually doing that is not really steps.

[TandemWalker]

Ditto on what @Heybales  stated in his post. If you do wear your One tracker during a non-step based workout, any steps recorded by your one will be part of your steps stats, together with the related calories burnt. When you log the activity per se, the credit that you would normally get from that work out will not be the full credit per se but only the difference between what was already allocated to you from steps and the value the full value of the workout. That's how I understand it any way. Is this how you see it too @Heybales ?

[Heybales]

Actually, when you manually log a workout that is not walking or running, the calorie burn estimate by Fitbit is totally overwritten by what you input, or what Fitbit pulls from the database.

So my last bike ride - 

Fitbit saw 10564 "steps" on my ankle (I was testing). Of course, it only saw 1 foot going down compared to actually walking.

It calculated from that 955 calories and around 6 miles.

I made a manual entry to correct that calorie burn to 1976 (2 hr ride) and the 35 mile ride.

It totally replaced the 955 for that span of time with my 1976, and they were all VAM minutes, though they were anyway. (interesting there, if it had counted eat actual pedal foot down like a step and doubled it, would calorie count have been doubled too? Meaning 1910 calories? Mightly close in that case)

Steps stayed the same, distance walked stayed the same.

Now, a hill run I manually logged.

Fitbit saw steps I didn't note, 6.43 miles, and 950 cal.

I actually ran 7.30 miles, and burned 1204 cal. (Fitbit off by 12% and 21% respectively, too big to not correct)

Fitbit changed the daily miles, replaced the calories as before, and replaced it's step count with one based on my new miles entered, just doing the math for my stride length and distance.

So while it might have seen the steps very accurately, because I corrected the distance, it changed the step count to match.

So you get full credit for everything, even the VAM minutes, though again in both these cases - they were VAM before and after correction anyway.

And I don't care about inclusion of exercise in the step count, because I don't even care about step goals and such. Come winter I may look at some non-exercise days and compare steps and daily burn between summer and winter, but it's no goal anyway.