Football tracking on the Surge

[Altheowl]

Hi, I know this has been asked previously but I am yet to find an answer. I have just moved to the Surge from the Charge HR, I play a bit of football /soccer and to track my exercise on the Charge I simply pressed the button for a couple of seconds and the same to stop. There is nothing in the Surge options to record this activity the closest being Circuit training. Am I missing something or has the most popular sport on the planet been left out. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[MikeF]

Put it in Run mode and you'll get a rather interesting GPS plot to go along with your steps and calories. That's the equivalent of pressing the button on the Charge. I guess you could go with Treadmill as a GPS free alternative.

[Altheowl]

Thanks for the advice I will go with this and compare results with my Charge, I am just a little dissapointed it does not support football/rugby as they are extremely popular sports and could probably come under the same umbrella. Cheers again.

[MikeF]

I'm not sure what you'd want it to differently for these sports over what it does for the generic runs? Unless there's a requirement for some unique function that I'm not aware of I've never really understood why they have as many classifications as they already do.

[Altheowl]

I agree completely I was more than happy with the one button covers all on the Charge but if you are going to support individual sports it should be a little more comprehensive.

[Colinm39]

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@Altheowl wrote:

I agree completely I was more than happy with the one button covers all on the Charge but if you are going to support individual sports it should be a little more comprehensive.

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@Altheowl It will be interesting to see what the Surge SmartTrack detects.

I have the Charge HR interpret my gardening activities as Sport, Aerobic Workout and Outdoor Bike and when I analyse the type of movement I was doing the detection was accurate and the calories were equivalent to the type of activity.  Walk was atypical walk.

Sport was moving around, changing directions in heavy gardening, raking, lifting etc

Aerobics was heavy pruning and moving like an aerobic session.

Outdoor Bike was kneeling and heavy upper body weeding and pulling.

[Tcubed]

Hi, I just got a Fitbit surge and also plan to  use  it when I play football, 5 and 7 a side games, not 11 a side full pitch games. Is it advisable to use one of the protective covers available?

[Altheowl]

I have been using mine 2/3 times a week for football I have started wearing a sweat band over it as I was catching the screen and stopping the tracker while playing. Beyond this I don't feel there is a need for any extra protection.