tracking indoor cycling w/o

[zekedog85]

how do you properly set fitbit (charge 2) to track indoor cycling?

[Baltoscott · Accepted solution]

You can:

1a.  Wear it on your wrist and manually start a 'workout' activity from the CH2.  That causes more frequent HR sampling.  You can later edit the activity record to change the category to something like 'spinning' and to update the details. It won't record many steps if you do this because your hand won't be moving much.  IF the calorie burn seems about right, I would just do this method.

1b. As above, but instead of renaming the activity, manually add a new spinning activity for the same time period.  When you do that, you should be able to add some more information, such as the mileage reported on the bike, which can help Fitbit better assign a calorie value.  (This is probably the most accurate for calorie burn, and should overwrite the portion of activity calories in your daily total that came from the tracker recorded activity, even if you don't delete that version).

2. Take it off and stick it in your front pocket or your sock and just let it count the steps and movement and it will guess calorie burn and active minutes based on that.  You get more 'steps' recorded if you do it that way.