Can't name workouts

[eromano]

Love the Ionic so far; however, my prior fitness tracker allowed me to name workouts.  I do P90X, Insanity, muscle split weight training throughout the week as well as road and mountain bike riding.  My prior band; the Microsoft Band 2, allowed me to name workouts "Legs #1 Monday", "Chest/Back #3 Tuesday", "Insanity Max 30 Wednesday", "Trail Ride - Tie City - Thurs", etc.  This way I can pull up my activity log and clearly see what I've done throughout the week; therefore, allowing me to plan my activity and workouts for the future.  It would be so awesome if we had this capability with the Fitbit Ionic.  That said, there are some awesome features I didn't have with the MB2 that I now have with the Ionic device.  But being able to name workouts should be an easy feature to add in a software or firmware update.  Does anyone else have the desire to manipulate workout titles beyond the canned descriptions provided in the Fitbit application?  

[WavyDavey]

Hi @eromano,

If you log those workouts in the Workout mode on the Ionic, you can go into the web dashboard afterwards and rename the activity (Log > Activity in fitbit.com dashboard).`

[eromano]

I wish that worked.  I've tried it and you're still forced to pick one of the pre-loaded descriptions.  You're unable to type in your own content.  I might be missing something but I already attempted to utilize that feature. 

[NellyG · Accepted solution]

@eromano Here is how to creat a custom activity that will then appear in your activity listin your app.

ADDING A CUSTOM ACTIVITY
First you have to know how many calories you burn in your activity. You can google calorie calculators

Then go to the Fitbit website Dashboard (not the app) and tap the top of the Recent Exercise tile. A little thing will drop down on the bottom of the tile. Tap See More which is on the right side. A new page comes up. Move right to the bottom of this new page to the box titled Activities which is on the right side at the bottom. On the bottom of this box, in blue and small print it says Create Custom Activity. Tap that and a box comes up. Put in the title of the Activity and then fill in the start time and duration of you latest session, fill in the calories burnt and hit log. You have now created your custom activity. Bit of a trial, but you only have to do it that way once.