Stationary Bike

[Felushko]

I do post my stationary bike exercise manually including the "distance" and the "calories burned".  On average I ride it 45 minutes 3 times per week.  Yet my activity minutes and calories burned don't change on my dashboard.  What I am doing wrong?

[Jrdubyakc]

When I log stationary bike, I don't have a distance option. Are you searching for "stationary bike" and logging it that way?

[Felushko]

Yes, I search for 'stationary bike' and fill in the blanks that come up: start time, duration, distance, calories...

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[Jrdubyakc]

Are you by chance searching stationary bike but then creating a custom activity? 

If so, try searching stationary bike and then selecting an option from the pull down menu.

   

Let me know if that solved the problem.

[Rich_Laue]

This is what I see when Ilog a stationary Bike.

It is asking me for

Start time

Duration

Intensity

With the option of adding calories. (if you feel it did not calculate them correctly).

[LewWagner]

Since the weather has turned colder this winter, I admit it.  I'm a fair weather walker/jogger/runner outside.

We have a recumbent bike we purchased way back in the 2003 and I started using that, again to burn calories. I had heard that my Fitbit device (zip) might not record stationary activity or pushups or situps, so I was interested to see what it would show me.

I wear the zip at the 11 o'clock position on the waisband of my shorts.  My hips move and the shrinking fat around my waist contributes to that movement.

In conjunction with Map My Fitness web site, I manually enter in the bike readout data and calculate my calories burned, mph, and minutes/mile.  I transfer this info to a manual activity log entry for biking in Fitbit.

That manual entry along with info from the Zip provides me with a metric result I hadn't noticed before while walking.

I'm burning the same amount of calories in half the time it took me to walk the same amount of calories burned.

Benefits:  no more sore feet from walking, 8 mile (roughly 30 minute time) segments about 3-5 times a day at about 15-15.5 mph avg speed are resulting in around 3,800-4,000 calories burned each day.

[LewWagner]

Discovered that my manual entry of my bike exercise didn't contribute one thing to my step, calorie, or distance metrics for that exercise.

It did, however double the VAM and placed it just after the actual VAM recorded by the Zip on my shorts waistband.

So, I'll fine tune my iputs and drop the manual entries.