syncing activities

debrag12

I took a long walk this morning 7.6 miles tracked with my garmin f15 with HRM. My fitbit only showed 7.2 miles and when I synced the garmin activity the distance was still 7.2 miles as the miles weren't shown. When I edited and added the miles it still stayed at 7.2 miles.

Is this due to the fact that steps haven't been counted during the activity therefore fitbit only goes by the distance it records?

I would have thought that the synced activity would be the most accurate as I was using a HRM or does it not really matter about having the distance tally up and it's all about calories. Should I just leave it as the fitbit distance? I may have a lower distance by 0.66 miles and 1670 fewer steps but it appears I have the same amount of calories.

Also I only have 3 very active minutes

heybales

When a walking or running activity is manually created in Fitbit, your entered miles and calorie burn (if entered) replace what Fitbit came up with, and steps is replaced with the results of entered miles / stride length settings = steps (mine always go lower, despite manually corrected stride length).

When an activity comes IN to Fitbit from external source, even though tagged as walking or running (it's merely a text label actually, not an activity label like manually entered), miles and steps is not recalculated. Calories for the start time and duration are replaced with whatever came in, but that's it.
Also, your calorie burn must be 6 x your resting calorie burn to be given VAM time.
That includes an activity recorded by the GPS feature of Fitbit app.

But why wouldn't steps have been recorded by your Fitbit?

Also, this shows it may be good to manually correct your stride length if you haven't. Mine always lowers because my training runs are combo of jog / walk intervals, and I don't have access to treadmill to get new running stride length at new weight.