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.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[judiloks]

I hate the cardio load messages, and the whole concept for that matter. The “NAG”doesn’t go away and stay away when you tap the x. The fact that Google hasn’t managed to fix this “bug” after so many months suggests they are deliberately seeking to make the whole fitbit platform unusable. The assigned cardio load goal for the day also appears to be utterly and ludicrously arbitrary. The cardio load values assigned on any given day seem to have no relationship to the actual efforts expended. Google took a good product in Fitbit and ruined it. Your programmers aren’t even able to handle the difference between metric and imperial measurements. Another permanent “bug.”

[Keiga]

Yes please allow this prompt to be disabled. I find it demotivating and unhelpful, as its suggestions don’t align with how I feel (this is the same reason I turned off the readiness score). I would have a better experience with my Fitbit app if I wasn’t forced to see this readiness prompt 

[Esso1962]

Get the insistent and totally redundant message off my fitbit screen! It is a total turn-off!

[cpc54]

Today at the gym my cardio load actually started counting down. One minute it was showing I had achieved 22 and then it suddenly dropped to 20.

If Fitbit aren't going to make this useless feature optional they could at least make it work!

[Esso1962]

Thanks for that!!

[Esso1962]

Totally agree with you there! The cardio load comments are condescending
and almost always negative. It feels like an active discouragement to use
any tracking at all.

What is Fitbit trying to accomplish with this??

[Muttley76]

Have to admit I reached my limit with this feature today. Last Friday i did a 10k charity run so my cardio load that day was exceptionally high. One week on i am being told I am at risk of under-training even though my cardio load AVERAGE for this week is identical to last week. 

[Lili-94]

I dislike the feature, it's scientifically unjustifiable given the lack of
detailed personal data that Fitbit/Google has access to, and it's
inaccurate and inconsistent. I went on some of the other discussion
groups, both Fitbit and Reddit, and some people seem to like it, some even
wanted it added to their Pixel or Fitbit device, others deride it as
inaccurate and disheartening. ALL OF WHICH argues for a feature that can
be enabled or disabled. My Charge 6 acknowledges that I do not have a
target - I have refused to set one - but I continue to get messages about
my training, over, under, and for all I care, through the middle. The
problems with the cardio load have made me realize how inaccurate many
Fitbit features are - and one of the people from Fitbit support did ask how
exact an answer I was expecting. That's something I would like to see. If
Fitbit/Google is refusing to remove or modify the cardio load feature,
let's have some information. How accurate is it? How accurate is Fitbit's
estimate of your VO2 Max? 40%? 60? 10%? If one of your primary activities
is swimming, then the Cardio Load feature could never be accurate because
it doesn't track heart rate in the water. Basically this whole discussion
has proved to me that if Cardio Load isn't optional, maybe my Fitbit is.

[BecS81]

Hey Fitbit, please update us on the status of this request. You have hundreds of unhappy comments so why not be respectful to the people who have spent a not insignificant amount of money on your product and tell them what's going on. If it's under consideration, someone sees merit in the request, what's so hard about actioning it?

[Darch6827]

Agree so much this week. Yesterday I did a pre crossfit session, a crossfit class, an additional afternoon crossfit session (training for a comp) and a 52min walk. My body is sore beyond belief and it is telling me that I am at risk of under training. It is incredibly frustrating and demotivating. I’m about to head into surgery in a weeks time and will have to take time off training altogether and these types of messages will only make my mental state worse 

[artful_dodger]

I also don't want to be told how much exercise to do each day and would like the choice to remove the cardio load target. I am quite pleased if I hity own targets each day and at 72 I am not trying to win a marathon.

[Esso1962]

Exactly! It is so pedantic!! Mommy Fitbit knows what’s best for you…

[cpc54]

How about an update moderators? If you have time to remove posts you surely have time to update your paying customers?

[Esso1962]

There’s a very informative article from 12th October in Watches and
Wearables, called “Fitbit’s missing year and what it says about Google’s
plans“.

I uploaded it in this community but it was rejected by a moderator…

[Feral.Queen]

Agreed! I've had nothing but issues with the cardio load. I set to maintain and I was over training without doing anything outside my normal. Switched to improve and at least then stopped getting yelled at for over training, but in the last couple of months, I'm suddenly not reaching the goals so I went back to maintain and it's still accusing me of under training. And now (for reasons outside of Fitbit's stupidity) I'm having my heart looked at for other possible issues and this message makes me avoid the app, which has me contemplating dropping my subscription and switching to something else.

[tamlin1]

Yes, please allow us to remove it. Cardio load makes very little sense tbh and I don’t care to have it on my screen, but the prompts persist. It doesn’t work and I don’t want to use it.

[JustSo]

The Cardio Load notifications seem finicky, giving me conflicting summaries and instructions. It alternately tells me I’m not exercising enough or pushing too hard because I can’t always meet its daily goals exactly as specified. I actually have daily goals of my own and can’t always organize my exercise in the sequence it demands. I’d rather just shut off the notifications and use the measurements my own way. Unfortunately it’s turning into a pretty good advertisement for Apple Watch.

[Lisaducky1832]

Does anyone actually find any value in Cardio Load? I work 70hours a week on my feet and it tells me I need to rest. I take one day off and it says I've been undertraining. Sometimes those are flip-flopped and I'll hit 15k steps in a day and it says "you're undertraining"

If it works for some people then great but why can't I just turn off the notification bubble in the app!!!

[Esso1962]

Hi Lisaducky,

Literally nobody values it nor monitors this nonsense. It is a Google
project...Google does not seem to understand the golden rule of project
management: when failing, abort.

Other than that, Google has been divesting in Fitbit since 2023. Moving on
seems a good choice .

I just bought my new Fitbit Sense 2 a year ago, so will sit it out for
another year. Had I known this, I would have gone over to the apple-side
😁 🍏