Allow us to move or delete Cardio Load prompt

[BonBon7]

There is a new Activity called Cardio Load on my home page and I cannot move or delete it. I don't care about it. I want to see my Steps on the top of the list and now I can't see them because of this new Activity and the size of my iPhone mini. This is ridiculous.

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[HydeParkBooks]

Adding my vote to get rid of this discouraging feature Cardio Load. I do not want it never asked for it. 

[SaraBee81]

Also adding my vote to remove the cardio load banner. I have cardio load switched off, yet I am reminded about whether I'm under or over training everytime I open the app.

I cant train more. I'm happy with my output. I train on specific days becauae of family commitments and other scheduling!

 

[dylan_smith]

i made a forum account just to upvote this and beg. yes please

[CoCoLove10]

This cardio load nonsense is intentional. They make it difficult for you to get rid of, even knowing that it’s WILDLY unpopular. 

I found a way to temporarily disable it, but it still returns after a couple weeks. I’m looking at other brands now. 

[Dawlishdaisy]

Seriously considering leaving Fitbit because of these awful cardio prompts and the new sleep graphic. Lots of comments to the same effect so I hope things change. 

[md57]

So, how can this be in any way meaningful. I'm 67 years old and today did 130 AZM (amazing, right?). Yet Fitbit popup says I'm undertraining! 

 

[LadyBel]

The Cardio Load and attached Target banner that pops up *every* time I open the app is so shaming and damaging. I am really being harmed by this feature. I've disabled the data but the banner still shows, and the Cardio Load still shows in my daily exercise summary. It makes me feel like dirt. Please remove it. I find it so demoralising and I don't want to use the app anymore. 

[miminaz]

Exactly.

[Jstroix]

I just spent 15 minutes figuring out how to login and comment just to share how irritating this feature is. Cardio load is NOT my current goal. Seeing this message every day is just DEMOTIVATING when I want to focus on other things. Please make it possible to fully opt out of this feature. 

[candace626]

After I just deleted my cardio load data, as I do every Monday morning, wanted to stop by here to echo everyone else - please let us turn this feature off. It’s inacccurate and demoralizing. After a week of increased exercise, it still tells me that my activity is low and needs to improve. We should be able to opt into that if we want it - it seems that most do not. 

[OKmamaJ]

I gave up & canceled my Premium subscription. At this point I would quit using the Fitbit app altogether, but I'm locked in by my Pixel Watch. 🙄

[Bexielou]

I have to comment again - apart from the sheer inaccuracy, I realised that it only gives shade, at no point is there a "good job you met your target" I wonder if Fitbit trying to be more like Garmin, but noone enjoys an inanimate object giving someone a hard time with zero logic, and completely inaccurately. My latest analysis is that I don't seem to work out on the days it wants me to. Say, tuesday it wants 150 but I only do 30, then wednesday low rate, I work out - 150 and then overtraining....So freaking weird. If it was accurate I would not mind it so much. Oh and the best bit, last week my watch/app crashed horribly, reset watch - it lost ALL the data, so it did not log my workout so my cardio was zero. IT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD It is almost funny! 

[nnaomi7]

I have commented previously about this stupid feature but it's become comical now. The cardio prompt seems to alternate daily between shaming me and telling me to slow down. But that's not all - it gets worse! On days I've done a bit more cardio (I've been slowly increasing some running mileage after an injury) it tells me that I'm sooo great that I have a NEW cardio goal. In other words, instead of treating the day of increased cardio as a high volume day that might require more recover, it has started to increase my cardio load. This only results in a cycle of shaming because I'm not hitting this new, unrealistic goal that I didn't ask for. And I've double checked that my fitness target is maintain, not improve...Please let us opt out of this nonsensical nonfeature. 

[Zzcc0000]

The final nail is now in the coffin.  Not only is the popup not even going away when I click on the 'X' anymore (and yes, I've deleted all data, so how does it know?), I have now seen the email telling me I need to move my fitbit account to a google account by next February ....  With all these adverse comments about what google has done to fitbit, why would they think anyone would even consider doing such a thing??  Just shows how out-of-touch they are, and completely care-less about their fitbit customers.   So, I now have 9 months (maybe - if I can put up with this for that long) to move to an appropriate smartwatch - any recommendations, please? - thanks.  (I'm 67 and like the step counter, the hourly prompt to move and the sleep and heartrate monitors.  Being able to track water intake is also useful.  I do NOT need to be told that I'm under or over performing, and obviously won't consider a google product!)

[AbbyDC32]

Agree. Very annoying and I still haven’t figured out what it actually means. I’ve been trying to remove it ever since it appeared with no good explanation available as to what it is. And no way to remove it permanently or even x out of it each day. It just stays there at the top above all the items I actually care about and understand. 

[ermete666]

Make this thing go away - I mostly lift so I don't care of this bogus cardio load metric

[rdjoycech]

I agree, extremely annoying that I have to read this stupid message every day.

[Nlubcke]

Cardio is not my goal so stop telling me Im "undertraining" FFS

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[eminthevalley]

Allow us to get rid of it. The suggestions make no sense. One day it tells you you’re overtraining and the next you’re under training, pretty much regardless of activity. 

[Fisk21]

Fitbit, you've had four months to consider a very reasonable request. What does it take to actually do something about this? The cardio load is useless and having a reminder shoved down my throat every morning is seriously making me consider a different tracker. How hard is it to remove the daily reminder when cardio load tracking is unchecked?

You clearly don't listen to customer feedback.

[Alyab]

Get rid of this already! The cardio load notice is a joke. I have it switched off in the menu for featuring on my home page, and yet every morning it tells me I’m an underachiever regardless of how much I exercise. It’s demoralizing and makes me want to try a different service entirely. It’s been months since the first user made the request. And it’s a newish feature - so you have to know how you put it there such that it can be removed. 

[cylonvamp]

I agree, it is time to get rid of the cardio load. I followed the directions to remove it and it keeps coming back.

[cpc54]

Sick of the cardio load prompts especially when they tell me I'm at risk of undertraining and I know I'm not. I st my exercise targets not a poorly implemented algorithm. Why won't you listen to your customers and allow those of us who aren't interested in cardio load to turn it off totally including the nagging prompts. If your developers aren't capable of implementing such a simple change then I suggest you hire new ones

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[Thinlatinmoose]

The cardio “advice” is either shaming for too much training or for not enough. This is very triggering and surely plays into people’s insecurities - why can this not be opted out of?

[Lf1991]

If this doesn’t disappear shortly, I will be ordering a garmin. I’ve had a Fitbit for 10 years but the cardio load is off-putting. Sometimes it wants me to do 120 minutes of cardio a day - that’s just not realistic!