Strava Integration and Calorie Double Count

[dougcornelius]

I keep my Charge on my wrist while I bike ride (great tan line) I also use Strava to track the route. I have Strava linked to my Fitbit account so the activity gets logged automatically.

I know the steps get wildly overstated. Fitbit converts some of those pedal strokes to steps. I'm okay with that discrepancy, activity is activity.

My concern is that Fitbit is double-counting the activity to show more calories burned than I actually did. For example on my 10-mile bike ride this morning the activity logged 823 calories burned. I also have 7,862 steps so far, of which at least 4,000 are from the bike ride. Is Fitbit counting the calories from the activity, plus the steps? Or is it smart enough to realize that the steps happened during the activity and stops the calorie count for the steps?

[SteveH]

When you manually log a bike ride (or when a ride is logged via a 3rd party app like Strava) and you were wearing your fitbit at the time it will overwrite the calories and active minutes that were tracked by your fitbit with those calculated for the manual entry.

It will leave any steps tracked unchanged but as the calories were overwritten they will not have any calorie burn or active minutes associated with them. In other words, there is no double counting. 

[dougcornelius]

Thanks for that. I can better enjoy that second beer after my bike ride knowing I'm still under my daily calorie burn.