Schwinn AirDyne Exercise Bike

[GoodOldDad]

My exerciser is a 30 year old exercise bike sort of like a spin bike, but also has levers for arm workout.  Similar to a step machine, but sitting instead of standing.  Is there an option that would work best for this exercise?

[WendyB · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the forums!

You could use bike mode but you wont get steps. I have and exercise bike and just manually log it to what ever the bike tells me.

I dont know if your shows cals burn etc. though

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[0hwell]

An Airdyne will register under auto exercise as an Elliptical. At least that's what mine does, I do have a newer model.

[MakMak]

If you go into settings in the app, you can open the Ionic, open exercise settings, and make sure you have spinning on the list. Then, you can select it when you're on the bike. To be perfectly honest, I don't know if there's really any/much difference between the exercise settings, they are all just heart rate calorie burns.

[SilviaFitbit]

It's great to have you on the Community @GoodOldDad. Thanks for mentioning the exercise bike that you're using. Just as @0hwell mentioned, I would log it as elliptical or let the Ionic automatically track it (SmartTrack), this way you will get the summary of your activity. You can learn more about it by checking this article How do I track my workouts with my Fitbit device?. 

Thanks for sharing your advice @WendyB, @0hwell and @MakMak. 

Hope this helps! Keep me posted.