Tracking yoga/pilates with FitBit?

[meg5168]

I'm taking a little bit of a break from running due to a plantar fasciitis flare-up, so I've been turning to a lot of pilates and yoga videos to exercise at home and get more stretching in. I am no yoga pro but I do intermediate-level hour long video several times a week, and they DO feel like a workout and I am often sore afterwards. 

But FitBit of course doesn't really register that a plank or intense core exercise lying on my back as exercise—obviously the nature of yoga and pilates often involves heartbeat-raising poses/moves or strength moves punctuated with a minute or two of child pose or what have you so it's not easy to get the 10 minutes in a row of elevated heartbeat to qualify for active minutes.  It frustrates me that I miss my active minutes or step goals—it's just not possible right now due to the injury, and I just feel bummed that my FitBit seems to think I'm being "lazy." I also feel that it overestimates calories from running but underestimates calories from pilates.

Does anyone have any suggestions of ways to sort of "hack" the FitBit tracking or ways to manually adjust goals so that I can still follow my progress without only being focused on steps? I have the Charge so it does track heartbeat as well but again it's difficult to get up to those required consecutive active minutes. 

[VictoryRunner]

Perhaps the workout or weights mode can track yoga?

[Esya]

Look for yoga in tracking exercise. It is there. Depending on the tracker you use you can also put it in the menu to start tracking from your wrist. Then there is the app Fitstar Yoga. It requires a subscription to unlock everything, but you can try it out for free. That app does the tracking for you.