The Fitbit Community is a gathering place for real people who wish to exchange ideas, solutions, tips, techniques, and insight about the Fitbit products and services they love. By joining our Community, you agree to uphold these guidelines, so please take a moment to look them over.
Skiing is my major winter exercise. I would love the app to automatically track skiing. Seems like it would be an easy thing to add. I know I can add it manually, but would prefer that it track automatically. I would even consider a subscription to cover the cost.
I ski almost every day when conditions allow. I received the charge + and went skiing yesterday, very disappointed that I could not track that sport. I may just have to return the watch and look for another alternative.
fourth Surge (band breaking and peeling), and also put a request in for skiing as an exercise last years hen I first purchased it.
Based on their lack of any announcement and band quality issues, I'm guessing they will soon orphan the model and put their money into their acquisitions.
Any of the Garmin Vivofit, Fenix or Chronos GPS watches all have skiing and are actually fully waterproof to 100m depth. The VivoFit HR seems to be the closest to the Surge, but I switched from the Surge to Chronos myself. I haven't looked back - FitBit has done zero updates to the Surge since it was announced - odd. I've gotten three updates with new features and security fixes for my Chronos in the first month.
Like many others I would like to be able to track my cross country skiing. I tried using he elliptical but it isn't at all accurate. Last night I skied for 2 hours much of it uphill and the tracker recorded it really inaccurately.
I spent four days in the last week cross-country skiing. My Fitbit seemed to only register "steps" when I was climbing a hill, and then only partially. I, like others on this forum, don't ski with a phone. Given the elevated heart rate benefits and the great workout we all get from this activity, Fitbit should include a way to track this.
Can we please add snowboarding on the app to track exercise? We have skiing and skateboarding and bizarrely snowshoeing (not much use for that here in the U.K.) I'm alternating between skateboarding and skiing on the app but us snowboarders don't like to get mixed up with skiers!! Thanks
Iam an avid skiier and would love to have Fitbit add it to their tracking or add other 3rd party apps sync with it. I use Ski Tracks which is available for ios or android. In it's settings it will allow you to sync with an apple watch. I have a Blaze watch and it would be very useful to be able to track skiing easily.
I have just returned from a weeks skiing in Austria and would have lived a skiing option on my surge to track my exercise through the week. Everything seemed very high (steps/floors) through the week so it didn't seem to pick things up accurately... please, please can you develop a skiing option ... thank you!!
Skiing is a big part of my winter exercise routine, as is the case for many people. I know I can use the "Workout" part of the exercise function on my Blaze, but it doesn't connect with gps. Is Fitbit working to add this? Thank you.
I really need this feature! Shake a leg FitBit dev team - make some improvements!
It shouldn't take over a year to get what is seemingly an easy feature. If it really is that hard you should be transparent!
The mute silence for such new Feature Requests that has also gained a lot of votes is a really frustrating. And it makes it easier to justify a move to other more up2date devices such as Garmine, etc.
After 2 years of using the Surge, I am on to Apple Watch series 2 which includes support of the SkiTracks app. The first year there on the Surge there were some great updates. But no auto pause, no skiing, and lack of attention to innovation on software led me to look elsewhere.
Please add downhill skiing as an option. Keep track via gps of miles skied and give credit for all time with heart rate in fat burning zone even if it lasts less than 10 minutes because most of my runs are short. When I ski I get very few steps because I keep my arms and upper body pretty still.
Join us on the Community Forums!
Community Guidelines
Learn the Basics
Join the Community!
Not finding your answer on the Community Forums?
Go to the Help Site
Contact Support