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The custom activites need to be shortcuts on the device for this to work. I seldom enter data on the dashboard, the device should do this for us. The available activities are far too limiting and only mainstream boring exercises for the most part.
For the price and a feature rich device like the surge, this seems like no brainer to allow users to create activities and track them on the device. Even if the calorie calculation is not accurate, the distance, time and heart rate will be. Dirt bike and/or street riding are obvious choices, yardwork, and other form of physical WORK (not just recreation) should be on the list.
Just a suggestion, but this seems like a common interest to your users and something you advertise as capability for the device, but not really deliver.
So why can't we just rename the ones already on the list, if adding new ones is just too much for Fitbit's brain at this time? On the Dashboard, I can edit activities I entered manually, and ones the Surge just magically invented (Yesterday, I moved some furniture around and found "sport" on my activity log. I kept it in there, but renamed it "manual labor"...), but I can't edit ones I chose on my Surge before getting started. I added Martial Arts my shortcuts, and select that when I dance. It's just a matter of picking one that will track HR while I'm moving around in the same room. Going into the Dashboard and changing every instance of Martial Arts to Dance would get old, but still much better than having to - what? - write down the start and end time of every session so I can enter all of the information later. I'm not exactly taking an organized class where someone else sets a schedule. At least if the title of the activity could be edited, like every other activity title can be!, maybe I could just change a whole bunch at one time instead of entering it every night, lest I forget what time I started and later assume a spike in my HR was the start when really it was from some terrifying moment driving home in LA traffic... (I pretty much stay in the fat burn zone my entire commute).
Yes, dancing! And drumming! I just learned from reading other comments that you can get GPS with one more activity besides walking and running: golf. Yay?
(Sidenote: Why can't I give a vote to people's comments in a thread?? Um, feature request for the feature request board.)
I would also LOVE this feature. I just got a selfbalancing skateboard (onewheel) and would like to be able to make a custom shortcut for this. Right now the closest thing is biking, but biking is a much more intesnse workout.
I agree with many in this forum... for a device as forward-thinking as this one, and for the price point, it really should have a custom feature. Fitbit is built around helping people move and exercise and be healthy... and there are thousands of ways to do that. The first post in this forum mentioned rollerblading... I row crew. Those are both great exercises, and fitbit should allow a user to access that activity quickly through the watch unit, especially when it's done nearly every day. It's too cumbersome to manually enter through the PC or phone. Please add a custom exercise shortcut... that'd be great.
I've seen a few, more specific, posts on this idea, but more generally it would be beneficial to name your own exercise shortcuts that can be thrown over to the Blaze. It may be a smaller feature, but I think I would personally log more workouts if I specifically had one called "CrossFit" for example as a shortcut. I know I can go back to log this exercise, but I find I always use the shortcuts on my Blaze rather than any other form of adding the exercise.
I also realize it may not be metrically any different than say "Weights" or "Circuit Training," but if we could copy those classes of objects and rename at least a couple, that'd be neat!
I currently own the FitBit Blaze (previosly had the Charge HR). Really love both, especially the auto-activity recognigtion and tracking. However, I spend a lot of time riding on a longboard, both commuting and longer distances on the weekend. Pushing 20km usually results in my FitBit going "4000 steps, yep, that's it". The effort involved is significantly higher. 😄 Would be lovely to have skateboarding / longboarding as an activity type, even better, as an auto-detected activity.
I know I can manually log an exercise, however, I would like to then have the option to add that exercise to my Blaze (Exercise - Shortcuts) after i have initally logged it manually, this would allow me to choose it before exercising... rather than updating manually after ! Will this feature be made possible soon ?
+1 on the custom name for the exercise. Ideally updating a master list or something would be good as would be nice if there was only 'Roller Blading' and everyone could use instead of the inevitable 'Roller Bladeing', 'Rollar Blading', 'Roller Blade' etc...
The advantage is if everyone used 'Roller Blading' I am sure the system could eventually learn a pattern and fitbit would be able to add more automatic logging items as it would have more knowledge of heartrate patterns, steps, speeds, etc...
PLEASE create a roller blading tracker. It is so frustrating not to have one. The whole reason I purchased the Fitbit Blaze was because I thought it could track multiple activities. This is critical to anyone's fitness. For those of us who prefer to skate rather than run or walk, this addition would be awesome!
Could not agree more .... This is not a good to have option ... but Fitbit should put as must ...
Additionally .... it should allow you to put Custom Calories spent per hour etc etc ... information which we can get online ... or Fitibit should use the already existing ones ...
I am a figure skater and I am on the ice Saturday morning 7:30-12, Sunday 8:40-9:30, Wednesday 4-6 and if possible Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. When I look at my fitbit exercise it shows "sport 15 minutes" and I lose out on all the calories I have burned. As a figure skater I burn a lot of calories practicing my moves and am disappointed when it is not recognized and added to my calories burned goal. I cannot add it manually either because different moves have different intensities, such as jumps and spins.
Yes. A watch like that should focus more on exercise, I believe 99% people who use Fitbit for activity purposes, not as a smart watch. Not being able to customize your own kind of exercise is ridiculous, people do different sports all around the world and there are 15 choices in exercise shortcut and we can't add our own. And this is not even a hard thing to update on firmware. Same thing to Vo2 stat, it's not a hard thing to code that why aren't the they not included?
It would be nice to have this standalone option which would be detecting strides and displaying instant speed, average speed etc. feeded from ones phone's GPS data, dont you think guys who inline skate?
This was the first thing I looked for after receiving the Fitbit Blaze for Christmas. I wanted to add my own exercise to the list of exercises. Treadmill and Biking are the only exercises that I would use on a regular basis, but as mentioned in several other posts, there are a lot more exercises that would be nice to have a shortcuts.
would be very nice to see that. Do lots of roller skating in the summer time. Also hope that would be a better way to track ice skating in the winter as well.
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