Recording/monitoring exercises?

[danraper]

Hello all 🙂

How does my Fitbit Charge HR know what type of exercise/sport I am undertaking? 

And does it start monitoring it automatically or do you need to initiate the recording prior to the exercise?

Many thanks in advance!

Dan

[Bbeliever215]

Hi Dan!

I found the stopwatch option the best. Once you have completed the exercise turn it off then edit the name of the exercise. There is also a new feature where Fitbit is supposed to recognize your range of motion and automatically record the exercise. I have only experienced this once so I'm not sure if this accurate if you're doing exercises outside of running, brisk walk, etc. Hope this helps! Oh and if you use mfp as well, it's best to just log under fitbit and it will transfer over.

[danraper]

Thanks B! 🙂

Someone also sent me this link which was helpful too: https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-do-I-use-exercise-mode-on-my-tracker

[Bbeliever215]

Cool beans!

[SunsetRunner]

The Charge HR & Surge track certain activities automatically. Those can be configured on the URL: Tracker Settings Page

The minimum time is 10 minutes for how long needing to do a certain exercise before being tracked automatically, so regular shorter walks wouldn't count as exercise, but longer walks will. The time can be changed from 10 - 90 minutes before it's being recognized.. or a certain activity can be set to be 'ignored'.

Official Announcement: URL: SmartTrack announced for Surge and Charge HR

[awood08]

My Charge HR calculated my whole day at Seaworld walking as 19 minutes of Outdoor biking! lol I just deleted and left the step counts as my excercise. It does however very accurately calculates my BodyAttack and BodyStep classes as aerobic workouts based on my heart rate.