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This suggestion is for the Fitbit mobile app to also adjust calories, distance, pace/speed and potentially GPS route if you retroactively adjust the start or end times of your logged exercise.

I've created this suggestion based on feedback around this released feature to edit start/end times of exercise, which has been released for iOS users (vote on this feature suggestion for release on Android).

This is a great fitness tracker for steps and heart rate. Since most users will be wanting to use only one application for tracking fitness associated tasks, it would be nice to track the following manually:

1. Max pushups

2. Best run times; 5k, 10k, marathon

3. Max pullups

4. Longest plank

5. etc.

If there was a way to create a fitness test for yourself where you could track your weekly or whenever best results, that would be great.

It would also be great if we could plug-in a strength training routine with the contents of the workout itself rather than only the duration and estimated calories burned. People do different types of workouts on different days and looking back at the end of the month to see what you accomplished is a great feeling. The more detail the better.

Maybe this already exists and my google skills are terrible?

Thanks and this is a great product. I have both the Charge 2 and the Versa.

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Hello Fitbit Team: After a run, the user selects stop and the metrics of the run are provided. I think it would be great if selecting stop puts the fitbit app into a cool down period to monitor the users heart rate for a set period, say from one minute upwards, depending what the user sets, or it could be until they press stop again. Quite often runners want to know how long it takes for their heart rate to settle and at what rate it settles. This would be a nice feature and one that could be easy to implement as the instruments are there. The metric of the cool down period could be tagged onto the end of a graph, perhaps of a different colour so the user can ascertain their heart rate once they stopped running. Many thanks. Simon.

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It was suggested per a FitBit team member to post this in the community discussion for the product development team.  Here is my original request:

I am a recent new customer to FitBit. I previously used another fitness tracker and when my corporation informed me their wellness program partnership with FitBit, I purchased one of your trackers. I have been getting used to your product and one thing that I have noticed that separates your product from other trackers I have used is the wide variety of exercises that are acknowledged in the app's fitness tracker exercise log. Unfortunately, two very common activities which constitute about eighty percent of my workouts are not options. These activities are pole dancing fitness and aerial acrobatics.  I would also like to suggest adding the feature to categorize each workout's intensity for a more accurate record. There are a huge number of your customers that participate in these very common forms of exercise activities. The pole and aerial community are very fitness savvy individuals that enjoy tracking their fitness activities and would like to have the ability to utilize your product more accurately to reflect the activities they enjoy doing for fitness. I hope you will consider adding these options to your tracking application to encompass a continuously growing community of fitness enthusiasts that have seemingly been left out of the mainstream recognition for fitness activities.

Thank you! 

UPDATE 3/24/2017: Fitbit has enabled the ability to create your own activities in the app.  Check out my blog for a detailed how to picture tutorial: http://www.poleharmony.com/2017/03/fitbit-health-activity-index-and-fitbit.html

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I would really like to be able to click the button on my Charge 2 to set the beginning of a lap, and press it again to set when that lap is finished. After that, the software automatically counts laps using my phone's GPS.

This would be incredibly useful for walkers and runners.

Hi Development Team and fellow trackers:

My little band of local competitors all compete on "steps" per day/week.

As daylight hours reduce over winter .. I come home and ... "row" on static Concept 2.

1. I agree with other commentators that "rowing machine & rowing should be an exercise, and ...

2. Is it possible to develop an algorithm that converts such an activity into equivalent "steps" ?

Thanks

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I am currently using my Charge 2 in Interval Training to complete a "Couch to 5K" program.  And LOVE the Interval training feature!!  I was able to setup the intervals between walk/jog, but it would also be nice to have the ability to set a time for warm up and cool down within the Interval Training.  Currently I am having to use "Workout" for my walk warm up, switch to "Interval" for my program, then switch back to "Workout" for my walk cool down.  It would be so much easier to be able to use only the "Interval" training to complete each "Couch to 5K" session.

When I manually log the 'Bike' activity, I am telling Fitbit that I am doing a non-step based activity. Similar to 'driving' it should eliminate the steps counted during a manual 'Bike' activity'.

I biked 4 miles today and it logged close to 2000 steps during that time.

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Freeletics is a Great and Common Activity. It would be Great to be able to Track lt.

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It would be nice to have a ruck/rucking option for tracking/logging your exercise. This option may also include back packing. The general idea is that you are walk/running with a weighted pack. This is performed in the military no less that once a week in nearly every unit in active duty army. I could also see this as a useful function for avid campers who like to do a lot of hiking and camping.

It would be great if the feature tracked/calculated:

1. distance

2. weight of the pack

3. time/pace

to get the total calories burned.

I mentioned this in the general forums where i learned about creating your own work out, but this option only accounts for time and distance and you have to input the calories you think or calculated yourself that you burned. 

After reading through all the community posts regarding this, it would be great if Fitbit could add a two step process to allow the stairclimber option to accuratley record steps and floors. The first alorhythm would need to be in real time and allow steps to be counted on the stairmaster. Right now since there is not forward movementment the steps aren't recording. I'm sure Fitbit could come up with something to make this process work. Maybe an override or algorhythm specific to the stairclimber mode to count steps based on your movement. The second, and easier algorhythm would translate those steps into floors in the summary on your watch and dashboard. That way we would get our due credit for stairclimbing. I know there are a lot of stairclimbers in the community that would really like to see something like this! Thanks for considering.

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