Step count

[electra2008]

Today I did just over 8000 steps and went for a walk, approx 2.5 miles. If I put the walk in I end up with just over 13000 steps. Why ? obviously the walk in
s being counted as extra but surely that cannot be right. Are you not supposed to enter walks as exercise.

[RobertoME · Accepted solution]

Hi there @electra2008, good to see you around. It's okay if you enter you walk, but note that your  tracker is designed to track your daily walks, so if you manually enter this information is possible you duplicate some of the steps.

Manually logging an activity works well for those activities where step count isn't the best indicator of the calories burned. You can also use manual logging to add a walk or run if you leave your tracker at home. 

When you enter a manual activity all steps, calories, and active minutes recorded by your tracker are overridden for the duration of a manually logged activity by the activity's entered values. This ensures that your steps are not counted twice as long as the manually logged activity has the correct start time and duration. Meaning if you enter a longer walk, from what actually your tracker reads it will compensate those steps giving you a higher count.

Hope this information helps, let me know if you need more help.

[electra2008]

Thanks. Makes sense