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‎04-10-2014 06:02

‎04-10-2014 06:02

where is the best place to put your fitbit when you are biking to have it calculate steps? Normal biking for me is less than 500 steps every 10 minutes.

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‎04-10-2014 06:16

‎04-10-2014 06:16

In my opinion the best place is... the locker room. Your fitbit won't get accurate data from biking. The problem is that fitbits are pedometers and are designed to track steps. They assume that anything we do is either walking or running and assign calories, active minutes etc accordingly. If it does track some steps from your biking the data will probably be meaningless and the tracked steps will "pollute" your real step count.

 

The way round this is to tell fitbit that you are not just walking or running and you do this by manually logging the activity. 

 

https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/413311

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‎04-10-2014 13:24

‎04-10-2014 13:24

@Rusty007 wrote:

where is the best place to put your fitbit when you are biking to have it calculate steps? Normal biking for me is less than 500 steps every 10 minutes.

@Rusty007- I'm in full agreement with @SteveH . But I'm curious - why would you want to record steps while biking? You can log biking as a separate activity and earn the full caloric burn credits for your bike ride, especially if you're able to document the number of miles travelled and you used the timer function to document your ride. Why would you want to log your bike ride as steps?

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