ballet class

[Jemilefty]

I am new but took a ballet class that was very difficult and 1.5hours. It showed no "active exercise minutes" on my fitbit force. I know this is not as active as running but still I want it to record the activity of 32 jumps, 64 eleves, across the floor exercise, etc. 

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks,

Jemilefty

[tallson]

I would like to know the answer to that question. I do yoga, pilates, ellyptical training and stationary bike none of which are measured. It seems entering them on the fitboard dashboard is just guessing at best. You can't quantify everything so when we go down dress/pants size that should be gratification enough.  🙂

[Rich_Laue]

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@Jemilefty wrote:

I am new but took a ballet class that was very difficult and 1.5hours. It showed no "active exercise minutes" on my fitbit force. I know this is not as active as running but still I want it to record the activity of 32 jumps, 64 eleves, across the floor exercise, etc. 

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks,

Jemilefty

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Your Force is on your arm and it is looking for specific motion that indicates that you are walking or running. Also it won't registers steps until it see 4 of this motion. So unless your ballet is doing a lot of runing walking it won't register much more than maybe your leaps.

Why post this hardware related question in the Whats cooking Discussion. Wouldn't you get better answers int the Force help group.

[slysam]

Ballet is in the exercise database--though I think the listing is for actual dancing not the barre conditioning. I log barre work as Pilates which is likely a conservative (low) estimate. My Fitbit One always credits jumps high but with 32 jumps, not sure. And it may do fine with the across the floor work. The activity minutes have to do with how much and how fast movement is each minute. I think impact adds to it too. It does sometimes under credit dance movements that are soft and fluid. I think I would just manually log it as it was likely a mix of movements fitbit picks up and those it doesn't. I think when I log dance it is actually credited as "moderately active" intensity though. Depending on the movements, you may lose calorie burn logging it, so be sure an look at what it was before. (If so you can delete your logged entry to restore fitbit's estimates).

[DonSmilo]

In normal circumstances I would reccomend just not wearing your tracker and manually inputting however many hours of ballet you did into your computer using the Fitbit app. But, when it comes to ballet Fitbit is dumb. 2 hours and 45 min gets counted as 155 steps. I wish that Fitbit would solve this problem too.

[Dancedragon]

Same I would like to track how many minutes I’m en pointe