Running Apps/Training

[mroush]

Are you using additional running apps like Running for Weightloss, Runkeeper, etc? If so which ones? I've been using Runkeeper simultaneously with Fitbit to use their training programs and interval timers. Nothing syncs from RK to FB - only steps the other direction. FB has no training plans. I've also used Strava but their training is email based and not in the app. Run for Weightloss looks like the activities sync. Hopefully it captures the heart rate from my Blaze.

[Dominique]

I started using Runtastic three years ago, together with a Mio Alpha wrist-based HR monitor. This was back when Fitbit had no HR monitoring capabilities, nor route tracking (I was using a Fitbit One at a time). Now I’ve got a Surge (which feature HR monitoring and built-in GPS), so I’ve got less need for Runtastic. I’m still using Runtastic for interval training (HIIT), as it has vocal feedback. I also have the new Charge 2, which supports interval workouts, but I haven’t tried it yet. I suspect I’ll still prefer Runtastic, for the vocal feedback. Runtastic doesn’t sync with Fitbit, but I don’t really care: whatever I do still gets tracked by my Fitbit.

To get back to your question about running apps, I tested 4-5 of them back then (August-September 2013) and Runtastic was the one I liked best. It was also the only one that supported my Mio Alpha properly at the time (Bluetooth Low Energy was very new then). 

[mcrmama]

I have been recently using Endomondo after I saw it mentionned a few times and was also recommended by @Brackforce.  He did some photos etc of how it syncs to fitbit in the Blaze user forum.  It does a nice job.  Your steps are synced to the app and if you do a workout in Endomondo, it syncs activity minutes and calories etc back to fitbit.  It will show up in your workouts in the fitbit app with a label that it is an Endomondo app workout.  If you have a bluetooth chest strap, you can link it to Endomondo and it will track heart rate that way.  Fitbit continues to use its own heartrate data.  

I did decide to try the premium verison that includes interval training and training plans.  If anyone decides to give it a shot, let me know as I do not yet have any friends there.

Jodi

[mcrmama]

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Blaze/Solution-for-inaccurate-HR-during-intense-exercise/m-p/1552759...