Charge 3 counting steps while petting cat

[tgordon68]

In the middle of the night, I was petting the cat in bed.  The next morning, the Fitbit had logged over 300 steps.  There is an overhead fan, so maybe the FB was being affected by the vibrations.  However, later in the day, while away from any fans or vibrating devices, I performed a stroking motion, copying how I was petting the cat last night.  It started logging steps again.  Any thoughts?

[JohnnyRow]

The tracker is on your wrist.  It detects steps from the  normal swinging of your arms while walking.  Any such rhythmic continued wrist movement might be interpreted as steps.  To the tracker on your wrist, it looks just the same.  Same thing happens knitting, playing drums, etc.  If it's enough steps to bother you, you could switch wrists or take it off for that time.

[LZeeW]

@tgordon68   There is another thing that you can try if it applies to you.  If you wear your tracker on your non-dominant wrist, change the tracker setting to dominant, but keep wearing it on your non-dominant wrist.  This changes the sensitivity of the tracker and can reduce, but won't eliminate these extra steps.

I have mixed hand dominance.  Changing the setting makes a difference of several hundred steps per day.  I write right handed, wear my tracker on my left wrist, set on dominant.

I hope your cat appreciates the middle of the night attention.

[tgordon68]

I appreciate it.

[MostlyTired]

I couldn't understand why all of a sudden I was at 5,000 calories burned when I should have been at my normal 2,700.  It was petting the cat!  Sitting on the couch, petting the cat. I find that pretty unbelievable.

Especially since I've started knitting again these past few days and that didn't add anything.