Trainer and no activity logged

[Madison]

I have a trainer.  We work hard and it may not always be cardio but weights.  This strenuous activity does not show up on the fitbit.  Should I wear this on my ankle?  Is there another way to record hard activity?

[Cybertekkno]

The Fitbit tracks steps, but it does not have the ability to track how strenous your workout is.  Many Fitbit users, such as myself, tend to wear a heart rate monitor watch (HRM) to track how strenous our workouts are.   Wearing a HRM  gives you the ability to manually log how many calories were actually burned based on the informaton obtained from the HRM.  I hope this helps.

[JenniLacey]

A HRM does not properly track weight training workouts. The relationship between heart rate and calorie expenditure is not the same during strength training as during cardio exercise, which is what the HRM's estimate is based on. Unless your weight training is very vigorous circuit training, the heart rate monitor will be overestimating your calorie burn by a fair amount.

There are general estimates for weight training but keep in mind that's what it is, estimates and your best bet is to try to find the intensity that suits your workout the closest. Fitbit has a few options to choose from that you can manually enter;

Circuit training

Low intensity weight training

High intensity weight training

It sounds like your trainer may have you doing circuit training? Do you do cardio during your rest periods? Go back and forth frequently between weight training and cardio? Or does your trainer keep the sessions of cardio and weight training seperate, ex: you do your cardio and then weight train after?

If it's the first, I would track it as circuit training. You can hold the button on your fitbit to create an activity log and then just overwrite it when you log your activity with "circuit training" or in this case a HRM could help you determine how many calories you're burning. If not, then you can create a seperate activity log for your weight training and manually overwrite it with one of the weight lifting options depending on the intensity of your session.