03-23-2016
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03-23-2016
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03-25-2016 16:59
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03-25-2016 16:59
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It's great to see that you've visited the Fitbit Community @skyemeadows. If you keep your Charge HR on while playing piano and it counts steps, this will definitely affect the amount of calories burned. However, if you negate the extra steps your calories burned won't be affected.
I recommend setting your tracker's dominant hand in dominant in order to decrease the sensitivity of step counting. Please force sync your tracker after making changes to your Dashboard. The heart rate is actually based on blood flow. You can find more information about how it works in this post.
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It's great to see that you've visited the Fitbit Community @skyemeadows. If you keep your Charge HR on while playing piano and it counts steps, this will definitely affect the amount of calories burned. However, if you negate the extra steps your calories burned won't be affected.
I recommend setting your tracker's dominant hand in dominant in order to decrease the sensitivity of step counting. Please force sync your tracker after making changes to your Dashboard. The heart rate is actually based on blood flow. You can find more information about how it works in this post.
Catch you later.
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03-25-2016 20:15
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It's unfortunate that I'll have to take it off so often, but it is still helpful while working out, so I think it's useful for encouraging an active and healthy lifestyle.
I think my heart rate really does go up while playing! I'm going to test the accuracy by comparing my measured pulse to the fitbits readings.
Thanks again!

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Thanks for marking my response as the solution @skyemeadows. If you decide to take off your Charge HR while playing piano, you can manually log the activity in your Activity tab. Since it is not part of the list of activities in the database you can create a custom activity as shown in the screen shot below. It will be saved once it has been created.
To obtain the amount of calories burned during the session please visit this link from SparkPeople. Enter your weight in pounds and the minutes spent while playing piano. It will give you the amount of calories burned to be inputted in your Dashboard. Hope this helps.
Keep up the super stepping.
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03-28-2016 13:35
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I couldn't find those options on the app. Are they on the website? I may have found another solution that I'm going to try this week. I synced myfitnesspal account, and I can enter workout data with that for music playing. Maybe I can set my fitbit to workout when I'm playing music, and categorize it with myfitnesspal so there are no steps counted. I'm wondering if when it says outdoor cycling it's not adding steps, because it says it isnt. If that's the case setting to workout mode when I practice and doing that might work. Main goal at this point being getting an accurate step count without having to remember to take the Fitbit on and off...pretty busy so just remembering to press the workout button when playing might be tough!

03-28-2016 14:00
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The above workaround is available to be performed through the website only, sorry for not mentioning before.
Renaming a recorded activity actually doesn't remove the steps from the totals, however, the workaround with MyFitnessPal seems to be a good idea. I haven't tried it myself yet. Please let me know if it works.
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Thanks for the update. You can negate logged steps from your online Dashboard by following these instructions.
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03-28-2016 15:55
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I don't like very much your proposed solution: Playing #piano / organ / harpsichord is a real activity and #calories are burnt, maybe not as many as walking but certainly more than watching tv. As a dedicated piano player, I don't want to manually correct my fitbit stats. I'd rather record my 3 daily hours of #pianopractice as an activity such as [playing keyboard]. Is there a way to create it? How accurate is the calories calculator in this case? Can it be tuned up?
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. i play piano 3 hours a day, 6 days a week for the Brown hotel... My heart rate runs 130ish, it counts it as indoor bicycle.... and yes, my steps go up.... But with an elevated heart rate, i think I'm actually working out in a way... So calories burnt are real. And steps are representative of how far you could have gone if you'd been putting that effort into actually going someplace. . Just my thoughts though - i don't have any science to back it up

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I have to disagree with that link. There can not be an accurate calculator for calories burned just based on weight and time spent playing piano... i can spend 10 minutes playing fur elise, or 10 minutes playing Joplin... there's a huge difference. That's like comparing shooting free throws solo to playing 1v1 basketball...
01-29-2020 08:27
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01-29-2020 08:27
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It is difficult to track the activity of pianist. There are too many variables. There is a difference between playing a nocturne and playing some of Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin heavy pieces. Also if you are playing organ you not only are using both hands and reaching for upper manuals but also using both feet making it a real workout. After an hour or so of playing you have a real workout

