Charge HR and stairs

hamelle2
hamelle2 Posts: 297 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi. I have had my charge for 2 weeks and I was loving it until today. It's crediting me with 12 flights of stairs....nice except I didn't climb any stairs. Now I'm questioning my calories for the day. Any idea why this is happening? Should I return it? Is there a way to take the stair count off?
Thanks for any help you can offer!

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  • datsundriver87
    datsundriver87 Posts: 186 Member
    The Fitbit hr is awesome but imo it overestimates allot. If you are driving and climbing a hill it will say you walked stairs, along with just adding steps in general when you are driving, the best advice i have is don't use it as a daily set number you can eat back, but instead use it daily to determine how active you are compared to other days. Eg: all last week you had around 15,000 steps but today you only had 9,000.. Maybe if you have time but the gym, at least that's what I go off of. I rarely use the calories or actual numbers it gives me or I would be allowed to eat 6,000 calories a day due to usually having 3500 plus a day exercise calories... I just look at it and go "ok good I exercised allot today.. Maybe that dessert won't kill me today"
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    this article may help-http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-does-my-tracker-count-floors
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    Fitbits estimate floors based on a pressure sensor - as usually higher spots have less pressure. Things can interfere with this if they cause pressure changes. Things like the wind, rapid weather changes, humidity or liquids getting in the HR.
    It can happen to a perfectly functional HR.

    On the plus side, you have the charge HR which tends to use heart rate for estimating effort.
    I've had mine once credit me with going 150+ flights of stairs one day because of weather changes. I can assure that it did not credit me anything that looked like 150 flights worth of exercise.
  • hamelle2
    hamelle2 Posts: 297 Member
    thank you...based upon your replies iI will continue to love my charge!
  • codycsweet
    codycsweet Posts: 1,019 Member
    I don't look at the floors bc it's severely off depending on where I'm at.
  • AmberBelandria
    AmberBelandria Posts: 78 Member
    I am a dispatcher and I sit most of the day. However my Charge HR says I climb stairs all day. I have contributed this to the fact that i move my wrist while typing and it says i am climbing stairs. Not sure how to correct this issue. I thought about wearing it around my pants loop but then the HR won't kick in.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    AmberBelandria wrote: »
    I am a dispatcher and I sit most of the day. However my Charge HR says I climb stairs all day. I have contributed this to the fact that i move my wrist while typing and it says i am climbing stairs. Not sure how to correct this issue. I thought about wearing it around my pants loop but then the HR won't kick in.
    you can set it on the fitbit page to not show certain things. so if you dont want it to show steps,you manually set it to where it wont count them/show it on your fitbit,you can also change the order those things show up on your fitbit(not sure about all fitbits but my charge HR i can do this)

  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    AmberBelandria wrote: »
    I am a dispatcher and I sit most of the day. However my Charge HR says I climb stairs all day. I have contributed this to the fact that i move my wrist while typing and it says i am climbing stairs. Not sure how to correct this issue. I thought about wearing it around my pants loop but then the HR won't kick in.
    It isn't your wrist movement that is causing it to register stair climbing - you could register steps that way, but not floors. Floors are figured out by the HR detecting changes in air pressure. Usually current air pressure tracks realy well with what elevation you're at.
    Never tried it, but I would guess it counts stairs if you're using an elevator, though if I was a developer for the Fitbit, I'd probably put in something to check not to count flights based on pressure change if no steps are happening to minimize this.
  • kuroshii
    kuroshii Posts: 168 Member
    It's supposedly (steps+elevation change in 10ft increments)=floors, so it's not supposed to count elevator rides...but then I've heard (over on fitbit forum) of folks getting credit for a bazillion floors thanks to going on an airplaine. It's a bug, mind you.
  • ghoti_fish
    ghoti_fish Posts: 63 Member
    From what I've read elsewhere the floor counter is purely there for show and doesn't contribute to your calorie burn for the day. Can't remember where I read that though, maybe someone can back me up?

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