stationary bike not tracking calories

[Sis_2_51984]

my stationary bike for some reason is not tracking the calories (always says 0) however everything else TIME, COUNT, and CYCLE/MIN works just fine. 

my peddling effort is moderate I think. I would like to keep track of my new exercise on myfitnesspal (my Fitbit is linked) however I don't know how many calories I burned and I can't input the cycles/min.) Is there anyway I can calculate cycle/min and get the amount of calories burned? 

Any help  would be greatly appreciated. (the user manual gave only the instructions on how to put the bike together) 

Thank You 

[JohnnyRow]

Are you using a Fitbit tracker at all?  If so, depending on the model, you can track your exercise with the Fitbit and and get the calories right there.

See How do I track my workouts with my Fitbit device? 

Without knowing what brand or model of exercise bike you have, we can't have any idea of what it is measuring.

I don't use MyFitnessPal so cannot give you any help there.

[Sis_2_51984]

Hi, 

I have a Alta tracker and the exercise bike I use is called a Dual Bike (has arm and foot pedals) 

[Sis_2_51984]

Hi 

I changed my settings to recognize when I walk or do the bike, Everything should be good now ! 

[Heybales · Accepted solution]

Does it happen to display watts as a figure?

Watts is literally energy - and as such is the best value of energy burn you can get.

Calories can be calculated from that.

Outside that, using the normal HR-based calorie burn that is done when you start or the device auto-starts a workout is next best.

If the bike is looking for you to input a weight before it'll give calories - then it's not using watts unless it's using some calculation method to arrive at watts instead of measuring them outright.

ETA:

Just looked it up - no it's not going to give a watts figure.

https://www.tunturi.com/en/dual-bike-trainer.html

can't even find the manual to see what their display is doing.

[Sis_2_51984]

What I did was I created a exercise in myfitnesspal and from there I add the time I started and the amount of time (today I pedalled for 60 minutes) it gave me a calories burn of 300 (which in my case is close to accurate as I used to have a motorized bike and in 60 minutes I could do 600 calories (but I was not really doing the work physically) I feel great pedalling myself! 

[Heybales]

So the MFP entry you used is probably Spin Bike?

As all the others are based on outside riding with road, wind, and some average incline resistance at certain speeds.

And you are inside.

But I'm going to go out on a limb that you could not do your machine like a Spin Bike session would be done.

300 could be true if a very hard workout - that's still a pretty high.

I'd frankly log it on Fitbit no matter what - and use Fitbit's estimate based on HR.

The MFP database entry has no intensity to it - but a SpinBike class is pretty serious level.

If you need your friends list on MFP to see a workout - just make a wall post about it.

Fitbit's exercise diary is much nicer, and their use of the same calorie database is more accurate because of how they use it. In case the HR-based burn is too high.

Just my suggestion.

Also - not sure how you could get close to 600 cal/hr and not doing the work yourself. That would be called inaccurate reading.

[Sis_2_51984]

will give the Fitbit diary a try,

thank you