Spinning Activity logging

[Pagegiam]

Hi, when I use my Fitbit to record my Spinning activity, I am not sure what it is recording? I did a 35 minute session and on my dashboard it recorded it as 16 active minutes. Also it logged around 200 cals and a number of steps! However the bike computor logged the 35 miutes and 1200 cals? The good news was the HR recording was vertually identical. Can I overwrite the Fitbit active minutes & Cals?

[USAF-Larry · Accepted solution]

@Pagegiam, Active Minutes and Exercise or Workout Minutes are not the same. Active Minutes are recorded when you get your heart rate elevated, showing continuous exercise.  If you manually start and stop you Exercise Mode for the workout, it will record both your Workout Minutes and your Active Minutes.

The Fitbit calculation for the calories is based on your heart rate and your profile information for age, weight, sex, etc.  Your bike's estimated calories are a best guess based on averages of everyone that would use a bike.

No, you cannot change the calculated Active Minutes nor the Calories.

[GershonSurge]

Twelve hundred calories in 35 minutes is way out of the realm of possibility. Even elite athletes seldom burn more than 10 or 15 calories per minute, 

You can find the accuracy of your calories burned by meticulously monitoring your food total food intake, calories burned, and weight gained or lost. Theoretically, it takes a 3,500 deficit to lose a pound. If you divide the deficit by the weight lost, you will get the deficit required as measured by your device. Most of us find devices with an HRM overestimate calories burned by 10 to 20 percent.

[cfw43]

Hello. I have a new Charge 2. Very pleased. However, I feel the software (both mobile and PC) could use a few tweaks. The biggest tweak necessary is to allow one to edit the value of the numbers in the activities. Namely distance, duration, calories when necessary.

Case in point. I completed an activity of spinning today. I have a spin bike with a computerized tracker on it. It tracks total time, distance, calories (useless because they are based on nothing), max pulse (quite accurate I think, based on wearing a heart rate belt around your chest) and speed.

Today I used the heart rate belt and the Fitbit Charge 2. I did not “start an activity” on the mobile app on my smartphone. All I did was start the Spinning activity manually on the Charge 2. At the end of the spin I decided to enter the data from the spin bike’s tracker manually into the activity log on my PC. I then closed the Spinning activity on the Charge 2 and it synced the data from it to the mobile app.

So now I have two activities for spinning in my activities history displaying on my PC. In comparing them (see the screen snap below) one can see a slight difference in the steps, duration and calories and one big difference, the distance. I was able to manually enter the distance when I logged the activity. However, it is not possible to add the distance (13.49km) manually to the data that was automatically synced from the Charge 2 to the mobile app on my smartphone.

In summary, I would like to know (1) If I have possibly not followed the proper procedure to add an activity such as Spinning manually and (2) If it would be possible for the software to be tweaked on both the mobile app and the software used to display on the PC? And (3) I now have three Spinning activity names being suggested in the Log Activities box. I only need one. How to get rid of the other two? Can’t seem to be able to edit or delete anything once it is in the system except for an entire activity.

Also I must say it is really not clear to me why the Active Minutes are not updated or added to. I believe I understand that the activity duration and the active minutes are not one in the same because the active minutes depends on your heart rate being in the heart rate zones for a specified amount of time (10 minutes or more?). But I can tell you that during my 30 minutes on my spin bike I was in the heart rate zone for at least 20 of those 30 minutes. Yet there is no way to either add those “activity minutes” either automatically or manually.

I will continue to use the Charge 2 and the software without question, but I feel that if I can add an activity manually then I should also be able to edit the data that I entered as well if I need to.

Thank you for your assistance.

Sorry. Can't seem to figure out how to add my screen snaps to this.