Charge 2 and spin/stationary bike

[Kamau]

I have no idea how to get the charge 2 to track this activity properly. The HR monitor counted 26 minutes of cardio + 14 minutes of fatburn, that's correct(at least it matched the HR numbers from my chest band). Somehow this counts as 0 active minutes and only 184 calories burned. A simple calculation puts the calories burned using the avg heartrate closer to 600 calories. 

I saw a few older posts concerning this but none of them seemed to have an answer. Is there a way to get the fitbit to calculate the calorie burn from this activity properly? Is there a way to enter the calorie burn manually for an excercise?

I got the fitbit with the goal of consolidating multiple apps and a logbook on the side into one app/peripheral. If it can't calculate cycling I'm going to cry.

[906JKal]

Crickets

[906JKal]

Spoiler

Do this experiment - take off Fitbit.  Watch Heart Rate on face of watch.  It still says HR even when off your wrist.  After about 15 seconds the HR goes blank - - .  Touch the sensor (green fake lights) for just a second or two and HR magically appears although there is no way that sensor actually measured your real hR with that short touch.  Fit Bit does not measure HR.  It estimates it using GPS and motion of your moving arm

[Rich_Laue]

Its off my  arm with no heart rate. 

Yes with the tracker on your wrist the arm is gliding down the road. Your tracker is looking do changes in speed and direction. There while holding onto the handlebars the tracker at best will count some bumps in the road as steps. 

Sorry @906JKal. if i as a Fitbit user, who donates his time, did not respond soon enough for your likening. It might have something to do with a 12 hour overnight work shift 

I am not being paid to post on the board and i have bills to pay. 

[906JKal]

 Experiment number two —. I’m on my stationary bike right now I’ve been riding for about 15 minutes I’m kind of out of breath and my Fitbit says that my heart rate is 62 bpm. I measured with a stopwatch by holding my hand on my heart and found that my heart rate is actually between 120 and 130 bpm. Now I sit up on my bike and begin moving my arms like I am running, tricking my Fitbit into thinking that I am running, and suddenly my heart rate goes up to about 110! Again, this Fitbit is not measuring my heart rate it’s using an algorithm to estimate it.

[eltoo]

I have to say that my FB has never operated in that manner, and everyone I know who has one has a very different experience from you.  Your description just doesn't match up with anyone else's experience that I know.  This is not by way of any judgment or criticism.  Perhaps you have a defective unit.  Or maybe the FB just doesn't work well for you.

[123lynette]

I think your Fitbit is not working. My fitbit correlates 100% with my polar with a chest strap, during a spinning class. I prefer to use my fitbit because I don’t like a chest strap. I put it on to compare the results with my fitbit and they matched.
Conclusion: fitbit is accurate with heartbeat count!👍

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[Rbinkley]

Thank putting on ankle worked great

[Docpno]

Why not take it off the wrist and putting it inside a sock. I do this and it tracks HR and “steps”. 

[123lynette]

👍

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[Rich_Laue]

Those are not steps it is counting? 

Many would call you cheating since they do not want to see any step increase while on a bike. 

[eltoo]

Huh?  Cheating who?  Don't really understand this post.  It seems to me that if one's goal is to use step-count  as a proxy for tracking meaningful exertion through physical activity, it would be logical to treat treadmills, ellipticals and spin bikes the same.  All three involve real physical exertion, yet none involves moving through space.  Yet consider that running on a treadmill is counted as steps by FB; exercising on an elliptical is sometimes counted by FB and sometimes not, depending on the machine (it seems erratic); riding on a spin bike is not counted unless one attaches the FB to one's feet or legs rather than wrist.  These differences in measurement don't make any logical sense.  The FB is just a tool, and the step tally is just a somewhat arbitrary measure of activity.  Making that measure somewhat more consistent seems like a sensible thing to do.  

[Docpno]

Fully agree!! The description of “cheating” made no sense to me either. The device measures active movements, period.

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[Rich_Laue]

While on a treadmill the user is actually walking and if not holding on to the rails, which lowers the calorie burn by as much as 40%, steps will be counted. 

On elliptical depending on if the arms are moving, steps may be counted. You tracker never looks to see what the legs are doing.