active minutes

[dpyoung94]

My tracker is not counting my weight lifting time as "active minutes" which leads to a miss tracking of my calories. How can I adjust my fitbit to more accurately count this?

[SteveH · Accepted solution]

The problem is that your One is a pedometer which makes it great at tracking step based activities but not so great at tracking other activities like cycling, rowing or weights.

As your fitbit doesn't know you are doing weights it assigns calories and active minutes based on the amount of steps it sees - which is not a lot.

The way round this is to tell fitbit what you are doing and we do this by manually logging the activity. Here's how:

http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-do-I-log-or-record-an-activity/