will fitbit track my steps on a bicycle

[fitat64]

Will fitbit track my steps while I am riding my bicycle.

[Heybales]

Not at all.

And even if it did read all the up and down motions, the formulas for calories burned with step based activity are very different than cycling.

If all you want to see and get credit for is steps and something like steps, stick it on your shoe or sock and hope for the best.

But considering it will seem gentle steps, just fast and many of them, I'm thinking you'll get credit for very fast walking, and therefore bigger calorie burn than reality. So careful eating more from that estimate. Or manually log it using the exercise database.

[Dominique]

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@fitat64 wrote:

Will fitbit track my steps while I am riding my bicycle.

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No, see: https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/1020095-what-are-%22very-active-minutes%22-

If you want/need the calories in your Fitbit account, you will have to log your biking manually:

https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/413311-how-do-i-log-or-record-an-activity-

[Bill_Peterhouse]

I put my flex on my ankle and it registers one step per revoution. I was wondering if the engineers could develop a "Bicycle mode" to count 2 steps per revolution. It would at least give a better account of activity.

[Heybales]

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@Bill_Peterhouse wrote:

I put my flex on my ankle and it registers one step per revoution. I was wondering if the engineers could develop a "Bicycle mode" to count 2 steps per revolution. It would at least give a better account of activity.

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Yes, but was your 90 cadence or 180 "steps" the same effort as mine?

Meaning, did it generate the same wattage or energy use for both of us?

Is the 90 cad going down a hill really just keeping up, or is it going up a hill in small gear but really killing it?

I can spin great circles, so was the spin bike tension up high, or easy spin and down low?

And since elliptical has no good formula's from studies like walking/running does (too many variables per person), even if steps are done right, no way to get the calorie count right.

The best would be look for those motions - count the steps if desired though not actually steps, and then auto-warn the user they had some time with likely invalid calorie count.