Does the Fit Bit measure biking activity?

[sistermadge]

Would love to know if walking is the only movement that FitBit measures?

[Jeroen]

FitBit measures biking activity but not as exact as walking or running, best option is to put the FitBit on your ankle but it still has some challenges to excatly measure. My preference is to sync my Garmin Edge GPS bike computer to FitBit. This way my calories etc are showing up in my FitBit dashboards. Hopes this helps a bit.....

[Heybales]

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@sistermadge wrote:

Would love to know if walking is the only movement that FitBit measures?

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Walking and running only - impact based, or step-based rather.

They know your weight, they have calculated an average stride length - from that they know for what impact are you walking and what you are running, and changes to stride length based on impact too.

Then formulas used for pace and mass - which are very accurate. If the distance was correct.

But those formula's don't apply to anything else, like biking, elliptical, stair climbers, rowing, lifting, ect.

It could be purely by coincidence that the 1/2 of the steps seen biking and using a walking calorie burn for happen to match what you actually burned biking - but how would you ever know? And do you want to keep doing such a slow speed that they just happen to match?

Nah, just manually log it. Whatever steps happen to come across is bonus since not really steps.