logging exercise

[Mardo2044]

Hi I am fairly new and using the flex.  I am jogging 3 days a week.  Although the flex picks up the higher intensity I am recording the run, distance, and time as an actvity because I want to highlight that versus my day to day action.  Here is where I am confused, I am jogging at a slow 13:20 pace and I walk .2 miles warmup before I jog 2 miles and then I have an approx 8 minute cool down.  I am very torn about how to record this because I am "working out" 30 plus minutes but I am really only jogging 26:40.  I am guessing that I should only record the run as an actvity and the fit bit will pick up the rest as walking.... is that correct?

[PamelaHazelton]

Correct. Fitbit is already going to take into account the calories burned for the walking (as well as the steps). Log the running.

[WolfRhan]

@Mardo2044  I am not sure what you are doing here, manually logging?  There is no need to do that, since the Flex will capture walking and running.  If you put your Flex into 'sleep' mode before exercising and back out when finishing it will create an activity for you, so you can get  report on the data collected by the flex during that time.  You can chose whether to include your walking sections or not, or make seperate activities for each portion.  Depends what you want to see.  Regardless the sytem will capture and use the same data.

If you create a manual log the system will over-ride whatever the flex captured with whatever you enetered during the time period.   

Try experimenting with it and see what you prefer.

[TandemWalker]

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@Mardo2044 wrote:

Hi I am fairly new and using the flex.  I am jogging 3 days a week.  Although the flex picks up the higher intensity I am recording the run, distance, and time as an actvity because I want to highlight that versus my day to day action.  Here is where I am confused, I am jogging at a slow 13:20 pace and I walk .2 miles warmup before I jog 2 miles and then I have an approx 8 minute cool down.  I am very torn about how to record this because I am "working out" 30 plus minutes but I am really only jogging 26:40.  I am guessing that I should only record the run as an actvity and the fit bit will pick up the rest as walking.... is that correct?

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You should not log anything manually. Just use the Timer functionality of your tracker to capture the whole workout, inclusive of the warm up and cool down segments. All workouts entail warm-up and cool down periods, so a jog is not different. When you sync, that particular event will appear separately on your activity log; and your minute-by-minute graph will show the various intensity levels throughout the workout.

I do interval training - jog three minutes, walk three minutes, and cycle through for a whole 60 or 90 minutes, with a 3 minute warm-up at the beginning and a 3-minute cool down at the end. And of course, I'm happy to report that this shows up as one event on my activity log, because that's what it is - my walk/jog interval workout.

TW

[LizB72]

I guess I don't understand this. I always record the workout summary of calories and time from my treadmill walk. I walk at an incline to burn more calories. How will the fitbit know this? I have used the activity tracker, and the calorie burn Fitbit indicates is always lower than what the treadmill gives me based on my weight, time and intensity.

[Heybales]

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@LizB72 wrote:

I guess I don't understand this. I always record the workout summary of calories and time from my treadmill walk. I walk at an incline to burn more calories. How will the fitbit know this? I have used the activity tracker, and the calorie burn Fitbit indicates is always lower than what the treadmill gives me based on my weight, time and intensity.

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Correct for that use.

Or if carrying more weight is other scenario that needs correction.