Fitbit for horseback riding!

[b.dunk]

Hello! 

I purchased the Charge 2 last night and I am curious if anyone here knows what setting i would need to put it on to get an accurate reading 🙂 

Thank you! 

Brittney 

[Rich_Laue]

There have been a few threads on this already https://community.fitbit.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/? q=Horseback

[AlvaroFitbit · Accepted solution]

@b.dunk It's nice to have you on board! Like @Rich_Laue said you can check the forums to see what other members have tried while doing this activity. Officially your tracker won't be able to track horseback riding but you can use the Workout option (check under Exercise shortcuts to add it if you don't see it) on your tracker and then rename it on the website dashboard. You can also use an online calorie to have an estimate on how many calories you burn for this activity.

Let me know how it goes!

[b.dunk]

Thank you! 

[Wheeler_laura]

This does not work - it tracks the horse's steps as mine.

[Rich_Laue]

It does work, but if your wearing your tracker, it can't tell the difference between.your steps and the horses.

Leaving the tracker off and logging the horse time manually would keep the steps from showing up.

[SunsetRunner]

I am about to go horseback riding and I was wondering the same thing. I think I'll just take off my Charge 2 and leave it in the car.

[LaurelSayer]

Hi, for hacking in the UK with a mixture of walk, trot and canter the Internet suggests one burns somewhere around 200 calories per hour (though no doubt that varies slighty for different riding activities).  I'm finding it a total pain having to set my Charge 2 to Workout then update it manually afterwards each time I ride. And even when I change the activity name I'm having a problem editing the calories. Seems I have to delete the activity completely and re-enter? PLEASE can the Fitbit boffins add horseback riding as one of the 7 exercise choices one can include on the tracker. (Same problem for skiers I expect). Cheers.

[JSMiami]

I wish I could give 100 thumbs up for this suggestion!  Yes!  A specific horseback riding activity, please, versus having to adjust my FitBit Charge 2 activities to create the activity...then manually set it every time.  I'd rather just not wear my fitbit when riding... And definitely don't recommend it to my horseriding friends, even though it sounded like such a great thing.

[LaurelSayer]

I would be interested to know what manual settings you use for horseriding as I've found none of the existing settings satisfactory.

[Rs-D]

That would be so good! 

[stargazer76]

I think it's great to wear my Fitbit while riding because it does accurately count my heart rate, active minutes and overall exertion.

It would be really nice if the app would adjust the steps and mileage downwards when an activity is adjusted to be horseback riding. 

[stargazer76]

Update.... I've started adding two exercises: "driving" and "horseback riding" for the duration of the time I'm on horseback. The driving exercise removes the extra steps, and the horseback riding gives me the energy expenditure.

Seems to be a bit more accurate now. 😊

[Abbeyawesome123]

When I get ready to work with my mustange each week I use the Fitbit luxe after everything is ready to go I press walk and it will track it then I go onto the Fitbit app it will tell me that I can catorgrize exersize type in horse back riding and there you go I don’t even enter the barn with my phone unless it’s a trail ride we are going on then I use Ridely to log in the activities