03-04-2019 09:39
03-04-2019 09:39
My steps are not counted while pushing a shopping cart at the store. If I place the Fitbit in my pant pocket it counts but not while on my arm. Anyway to correct this?
03-04-2019 10:36
03-04-2019 10:36
You would see the same thing on a treadmill holding onto rail or pushing baby carriage. You've got the only solution already, putting in pocket or pinning to clothing. The down side to that is you don't get any heart rate data for that time.
Fitbit, and all wrist-worn trackers, detect steps from the normal swinging of the arms while walking. When the wrist is held steady as supported by a shopping cart, it doesn't see any motion, so has no way of knowing what your hips and legs are doing.
Sometimes if I happen upon a cart that runs smoothly, I push it with one hand for a while.
03-04-2019 16:20
03-04-2019 16:20