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Syncing Surge Exercise to MyFitnessPal

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‎02-06-2015 18:04

‎02-06-2015 18:04

Hi all!  I just received my Fitbit Surge in the mail and love it so far.  I did my first weight training session using the Weight option on the Surge.  After syncing to Fitbit, it's showing up as a distinct exercise with all data.  Awesome.

 

However, when I check MyFitnessPal, it doesn't seem to send my exercise data over, just the overall calorie burn and steps.  Prior to using the Surge, I used MyFitnessPal to track my exercises and they were sent to Fitbit.  I loved this because my exercise sessions were shown on both services, so no matter what I can see my sessions.

 

Is there any way to send my weight training and runs from the Surge over to MFP seamlessly?  In order to get the exercise to show in MFP, I think it would end up double logging in Fitbit.

 

Any help you have would be very appreciated  Thanks!

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‎02-07-2015 03:34

‎02-07-2015 03:34

HI,

 

I have the same problem and have tried several combinations of logging exercises to see what works best for me.

 

Fitbit won't transfer exercise data to MFP, just the calories burnt as you have found out.  Unfortunately i haven't found any way to achieve the logging in MFP without losing the accuracy of Fitbit.

 

The recommendation is to let fitbit track and record any step based activities, (and lose MFP reporting of the activity) and to enter other activities, such as cycling, rowing, strength training, etc. in MFP using the app based calorie counts.  This gives the most accurate calorie burn tracking but you lose the reporting of the step based activities in MFP.

 

Hope this helps.

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‎05-03-2015 14:25

In response to Polecat

‎05-03-2015 14:25

I have the same setup, and read the same advice in several places - i.e. Use the Surge for step based activity but just log other exercises directly into MFP and it will make it back into the FtiBit app correctly.

 

The problem with this is quite simply why buy a Surge? It would be better to get a little fitbit step counter, record steps and then log exercises using mapmy(ride,run,etc) into MFP.

 

The trouble is I want a Surge to track HR and to not have to take my phone on say a ride or run with me. I want to get back, sync up the Surge and get the exercise into the fitbit app and then on into MFP.

 

What I'm struggling to work out is there any harm in tracking exercise using a Surge, sync'ing it to the fitbit app and then manually re-keying the exercise data into MFP, that is, does the fitbit app fold in the exercise data into it's overall calorie adjustment that it passes up to MFP, or is the fitbit app simply passing step data up in the calorie adjustment?

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‎06-11-2015 08:59

In response to SunsetRunner

‎06-11-2015 08:59

yes, we all have the same issue.  I have contacted Digifit and Fitbit help.  Fitbit Helps says to keep posting our suggestions/complaints here for the product team to pay attention to them.  Funny I would think they would monitor the "help" traffic to what people were having problems with.  But here is a copy and paste from Digifit on how Fitbit needs to solve the problem:

On March 17, 2015 at 3:01 PM Marrissa Harrison <support@digifit.com> wrote:

Thank you for contacting Digifit.

Fitbit did not design their new sensors to broadcast as standard Bluetooth Smart heart rate monitors so we are unable to pair to them for workouts.  For all heart rate monitor compatibility, please view here:
http://www.digifit.com/support/compatibility/

If Fitbit releases heart rate data to us via their API we would love to support this component.  We will keep our users posted.

Please let me know where I can provide additional information.

Best, 
Marrissa

Marrissa Harrison
Digifit Customer Support

The Saddle- The Ultimate iPhone Running
Tool

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‎06-11-2015 16:20

In response to SunsetRunner

‎06-11-2015 16:20

@SunsetRunner wrote:

What I'm struggling to work out is there any harm in tracking exercise using a Surge, sync'ing it to the fitbit app and then manually re-keying the exercise data into MFP, that is, does the fitbit app fold in the exercise data into it's overall calorie adjustment that it passes up to MFP, or is the fitbit app simply passing step data up in the calorie adjustment?

This works just fine, with a caveat.  

 

If you manually rekey the data on the MFP site, this will create a duplicate activity on the Fitbit dashboard. You need to delete this duplicate, as it will have a different (less accurate) calorie count.

 

Once you do that, then it will all work out fine.  Even if the MFP calorie count is way off, it will be balanced out by the daily fitbit calorie adjustment.

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