Weights workout mode on Versa

[Johndzill]

Do you pause the tracker while resting during a weight workout? 

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity

[AlvaroFitbit]

@Johndzill Welcome to the Fitbit Community! I hope you're doing well! It is up to you but I personally wouldn't since the key on tracked activities is your heart rate and the period you are exerting your body. The main purpose of tracking your activity is to have a better caloric burn calculation so it can be added to your daily stats on your account. 

Let me know how it goes!

[danjer]

Versa seems to be a lot of tracking stuff, but is no help in guiding the exercise. Where do I store my weights program? Like first - row, 2 rounds of X pounds, then chest press ..etc. If I need a phone or piece of paper for that information, I might as well leave the Versa in the locker.

I can't tell how extremely disappointed I am in this product. Fitbit has been in this business for years, and to see that their latest product is an expensive pedometer on steroids is depressing.

[AlvaroFitbit]

@danjer Welcome to the Fitbit Community! It's great to have you here! Sorry for the delay in my reply. The Versa can't track a detailed weight training (not sure if any tracker can). It will use the selected exercise along your recorded heart rate to calculate the calories burned through that activity. Still if you wish to see this in the future then please share it in our Feature suggestions board. The more popular an idea gets the more likely the developers will try to implement it.

Let me know how it goes!

[danjer]

I did not expect Versa to track the activity. I want it to guide it. I want to be able to enter my weight program in my app, and have the info on my watch. I don't want to carry a piece of paper or the phone to remind me the order of exercises and the weight for each.
The same way I would like to define custom interval runs and have the watch guide me. I used to have both features on the Microsoft Band and found them the main reason to use it. The third one was to track my course and pace for runs, and I can do that with Versa (though I need to carry the phone too). Yes, tracking heart rate and stuff is interesting, but you get over it quickly, unless you have health issues that require constant monitoring.

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[Andstew22]

So... You're upset with a company because YOU didn't know what it actually does/doesn't do? No one wants to track weight progress on a watch. You're probably the only person with this complaint. And judging by your lifting terminology, I doubt you lift very often anyway so what's the point in posting? Just keep running and shut up. 

[danjer]

Thanh you for your wisdom! Yes, there's only one way to lift weights, and you own the rules. Thankfully there are some reasonable people among fit it users, and one of them wrote the sequences app, and adjusted it to be used to track weight. 

[danjer]

Update : The developer who created the sequences app made some updates to make it easier to track weight exercises. The app is not custom made for this one use case. It is a generic solution to track all kinds of guided exercises, both repetitive (like Tabata) or plain sequential. It's clean, very readable, and the developer very responsive in case you run into problems. It's well worth a try. For me it took care of all the functionality gaps I had on my Versa. 

[MrFrantastic]

No need to be disrespectful. I'm another person that would like to track my weight training work outs on the fit bit. It's nice to have all my fitness information in one place. Though I didn't expect the fitbit to have that function, I agree that it would be a nice addition.

[Coiba]

You are a **ahem**, weights were suggested in advertising - they  could have added as an activity to track all metrics for just me weightlifting....duh?

[ohiocalling]

I know this is an old thread but perhaps the total weight lifted in a session could be used to monitor calories burnt.

[Regedanz]

LOL. Actually Garmin watches can track weight lifting on a watch.