Pickleball as an Exercise Option

[JSonne]

Have been asking for over a year to have Pickleball added as an option under Exercise.  This is a huge sport all over.  When is it going to be added to the Charge 2????

[WendyB]

If they added every exercise it would be impossible to keep up with.

Use the Workout mode. Then set up a custom Activity Named Pickle-ball. Once the device syncs you can rename it

[JSonne]

It is an option on other Fitbits

[haikuist]

I agree! Needs to be added with options for singles or doubles.

[Wilgin13]

Estimated Pickleball Players Within the United States

Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) 2017 Pickleball Participant Report, they reported pickleball currently has 2.815 million players in the US – an increase of 12.3% over last year.  SFIA is the premier trade association for top brands, manufacturers, retailers and marketers in the American sporting goods and fitness industry 1906.  Additional details from the 2016 SFIA Report:

• 1.57 million were “Casual” participants who play 1-7 times a year
• 930 thousand were “Core” participants who play 8 or more times a year
• The rate of growth in participation from 2014 to 2015 was 1.8%, from 2.462 million to 2.506 million (Note: this growth rate is likely underestimated since 2014 was the first year for including pickleball in the SFIA report and the base number is open to question)
• Comparing Casual and Core participants:
  • • Casual were 63% male and 37% female
    • Core were 73% male and 27% female
    • The age breakdown for Casual and Core are very different… with Core players being, on average, significantly older
      • ages 6-17: Casual 18.5%; Core 0.8%
      • ages 18-34: Casual 11.7%; Core 5.5%ages 35-54: Casual 29.4%; Core 19.2%
      • ages 55-64: Casual 7.7%; Core 31.8%
      • age 65+: Casual 5.4%; Core 42.7%
      • 13% of Casual participants and 75% of Core participants are age 55 and older
      • The 2.5 million total participants represent 0.9% of the US population
      • The regions with the largest number of Core participants were
        • Pacific (CA, OR, WA) = 263,000
        • East North Central (WI, MI, IL, OH, IN) = 200,000
        • South Atlantic (FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, WV, DC) = 174,000

  Any citation of this data should reference the SFIA report as its source.

[Wilgin13]

Which ones?🙏🏻

[JSonne]

I was told NEVER

[mamclaug]

Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the US. There are national championships and players are sponsored. It should be added

[JSonne]

I have tried to get the power to be to add this option...but nope