Virtual Reality & Fitbit!!!

[jewishgomes]

Hey everyone! This is my first post here, but I had a question regarding the workout tracking. I recently purchased the Fitbit Inspire HR, and a good portion of my workouts is using the Oculus Quest and some of their higher-intensity VR workouts. For example, a boxing simulator is estimated by the VR Institute of Health and Exercise at approximately 9-14 calories/minute I believe, so it can actually be a very intense workout. However, sometimes my Fitbit doesn’t automatically track this, and if it does, it recognizes it as “Aerobics” which, I believe, is only 200 calories for an hour.

So far, I LOVE my Fitbit, and I’m down about 7 pounds in the past 3 weeks through healthier eating and working out regularly. I was just wondering if anyone else uses this particular Fitbit with any VR workouts, and what you set it up as. Currently I typically do 10 minutes of Beat Saber to warm up, 30 minutes of Thrill of the Fight, and 20 minutes on Pistol Whip, so I can mix up different body parts. Any ideas at all? Thanks everyone!

[JohnnyRow]

That's interesting.

  If exercise is auto-detected or if you use the exercise app, calorie burn is based on heart rate so should be good.  If you manually log a workout (generally not preferred), then it would assign a calorie output just based on what you input, such as if it asks you to judge intensity, overriding the heart rate data.

[nfarrow42]

Thanks for starting this thread. I recently started Supernatural Workouts (LOVE VR fitness) and wondered how I can catalog these workouts. I’m going to use the exercise fxn to do so since it will sync on MyFitnessPal as well.