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When I enter exercise my fitbit doesn't show it as active minutes

‎01-20-2014 17:04

‎01-20-2014 17:04

When I enter an activity, such as spinning for 1 hour, that hour doesn't show up as active minutes.
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‎01-21-2014 03:42

‎01-21-2014 03:42

If I were to get 1 hour of VAM from Spinning I would need 410 calories.

 

You could try the Stationary Bike options.

 

The first Stationary Bike allows intensity and the 150 watt one gives me 463 calories

The second is distance BUT, I can't get that past 300 calories...A bug !!!!!

Colin:Victoria, Australia
Ionic (OS 4.2.1, 27.72.1.15), Android App 3.45.1, Premium, Phone Sony Xperia XA2, Android 9.0
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‎01-21-2014 13:43

‎01-21-2014 13:43

As Colin said, for very active minutes for logged activity, it is based on calorie burn per minute. When I enter my heart rate monitor calorie burn for spinning, I think it did give me very active minutes. But sometimes when I log vigorous exercise it does not. It just depends on the calorie burn per minute.

Sam | USA

Fitbit One, Macintosh, IOS

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‎01-21-2014 13:58

In response to slysam

‎01-21-2014 13:58

Now that makes sense! I had the same 'issue' and couldn't work out what I was doing wrong! But any exercise is good exercise in my opinion VAM or no VAM!

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