Step Hack for Indoor Rowing Machine...!

[Argali]

I found a hack for recording strokes as steps.

Ergo Counter Hack

Ergo Counter Hack

[suki555]

I'm sure if you wore it on your wrist it would count your rowing scores as steps.  Enjoy.

[Argali]

I tried that. It didn't work. Its swinging motion makes the difference. 😉

[Heybales]

be interesting to see what kind of distance it thinks that is, and what kind of calorie burn.

Especially if you could compare to actual walk of same number of steps and distance.

What is your rowing turnover time, like for each cycle?

[Argali]

I just did a trial run (both as "Workout").

On my wrist, it counted no steps.

On the [oar/scull?], it counted 5 strokes as 6 steps. (The extra step is probably when I held it to read it.)

Does "Workout" have a fixed distance, or is that re-figured when I change it to "Rowing Machine?"

[Argali]

Also, I just downloaded a metronome app to my iPad, for pacing. 😉

[Argali]

This idea needs some modification. In my first workout, it hit my leg a lot, adding false [strokes] to the count.

Maybe an oar handle extension (away from the body) might work...

[t.parker]

Why don't you place the watch on your knee? Not sure how you could attach it there (maybe put it under band or use small knee support). When rowing, your knee performs the bouncy motion that will be detected as step (up when bending, down when stretching). I'm not quite sure though, what the purpose of that conversion is. IMHO it doesn't make much sense but that's just my opinion 🙂

[Argali]

"I'm not quite sure though, what the purpose of that conversion is." --T.P

When I first got my Fitbit, I was looking for a way to track strokes on my old-school rowing machine. 😉

[t.parker]

@Argali I see. Basically, you just use a hack to find out how many strokes you did. I forgot how poor Fitbit sports tracking was. On Garmin, I have plenty of data fields related to strokes for indoor rowing. Basic functionality. If you use one of Fitbit smartwatches, maybe there is a thirdparty app that does what you want?

[Mjbinri]

Genius.  Thanks for all your testing

[Mjbinri]

Seriously, dude. Is this conversation just an opportunity for you to brag on your Garmin.  This site is community.FITBIT.com

[Argali]

Another post said that Elliptical would recognize Rowing, but it did not work for me. ☹️

[Argali]

double post

[SylviaKS]

Mine did ... but I didn't want it to. 😞

[YachatsMike]

I use a rowing machine.  With the newest update, my Inspire 3 has a Rowing machine app but if I look at the app screen it doesn't show any steps.  Bit if I go back to home and  look at the steps app I see I my step count raised by 1800 - 2000 steps.  Go figure!  

Before the update I used the Workout app.  It did the same.

[SylviaKS]

Yes. The other day I was on the rower for 20 minutes and I got the notification that I reached 10,000 steps. I was at 8000 when I started rowing. Fitbit knew I was rowing because I was using the rowing app. Thank you,Sylvia Sent from my Galaxy

[YachatsMike]

So here's a poser for ya.  I rode my exercise bike for 40 minutes today.  I had my butt in the seat and my hands on the handlebars for the whole ride.  My Firbit was running the Spinning app but I only moved my hand a couple of times just to check the notifications when I changed zones or hit my zone minute targets.  The app never showed any steps but my step chart for today shows me taking 3412 steps during that period.  I wonder how my Fitbit came up with that number.  It couldn't have used any watch motion because my hand with the watch on it had a death grip on the handle bar and did not move a millimeter.

[SylviaKS]

Yeah i gave up on the accuracy of the steps long ago. :(Thank you,Sylvia Sent from my Galaxy

[Mrosed]

I did this and it worked.