Fitbit and stairs

JaydedMiss

Im looking to start stair climbing for exercise, Since its nasty and snowy out.

Wondering if anyone has any experience with how accurate fitbit is with stair climbing and its calorie burn mine tracks flights climbed but i have no idea if it tracks it as extra calories? Maybe it will just track step calories as if i was walking?

If it does i assume its likely to be very wrong but im not sure, I wont listen to it to much unless people surprise me and say its good and accurate within a little wiggle room.

Personally iv found its great for my walking so im hoping its good with flights of stairs and stuff to with the heart rate monitor but im still a bit clueless how it possibly could be.

malibu927

The stair climbing feature of Fitbit only measures atmospheric pressure changes. It doesn't add anything to your calorie burns, and can jump up several flights due to windy days.

jessiferrrb

do you have a heart rate one? i think if you are doing it for exercise at a fair chunk of time and you start the exercise function you should get a decent count (at least as much as fitbit is accurate for you personally, my actual burn as far as i can tell is about 70% of what fitbit estimates).

i find the stair count to be accurate in some cases and not in others, because the stair mechanism itself counts i think 10 meters upward as a flight of stairs. at work i take the stairs every hour and i think it logs as 2 flights because the ceilings are high and the gap between floors is large. in public garages and other standard buildings it does better.

JaydedMiss

yeah thats what i figured itd only track steps, had to ask

JaydedMiss

jessiferrrb wrote: »

do you have a heart rate one? i think if you are doing it for exercise at a fair chunk of time and you start the exercise function you should get a decent count (at least as much as fitbit is accurate for you personally, my actual burn as far as i can tell is about 70% of what fitbit estimates).

i find the stair count to be accurate in some cases and not in others, because the stair mechanism itself counts i think 10 meters upward as a flight of stairs. at work i take the stairs every hour and i think it logs as 2 flights because the ceilings are high and the gap between floors is large. in public garages and other standard buildings it does better.

yes it has a heart rate monitor i guess ill just do like an hour and only eat a little more if im suddenly starving or something. It should give me some for steps taken anyway even if they arent counted as climbing

3rdof7sisters

I have had a fitbit for four years. They are super accurate at stair climbing, as long as you do not stop while climbing the stairs, and go up 10 feet at least.

When I first got my fitbit 4 years ago, I went up and down the stairs at home. We also live on 10 acres of steep, rolling hills. I know how many stair cases I get for each and every one of those hills. Trust me, they are accurate. As far as calories burned, that has never been a concern of mine, I don't care much about that. I use my fitbit as my number one way to motivate me to move more. It is a perfect tool for me.

MelanieCN77

It's pretty sensitive. I used to wear my Fitbit to skate on a banked derby track and it noticed the couple of feet difference in the low and high ends and would report a bunch of flights climbed over a session

JaydedMiss

Im going to use this thread as motivation to get me off my booty and go kick *kitten* at some stairs in an hour or 2. Ill come back and post my findings after XD

Its cold and miserable atleast if i treat it as a science experiment with people holding me to doing it ill atleast go do it XD see what i find

StaciMarie1974

The flight tracking element on the Fitbit is entertainment value only.

Francl27

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

It's pretty sensitive. I used to wear my Fitbit to skate on a banked derby track and it noticed the couple of feet difference in the low and high ends and would report a bunch of flights climbed over a session

Yeah some days I have 50 flights of stairs and it really confuses me.

I did however decide one day to go for the 100 stairs badge, and climbed my stairs up and down 72 times... and it was pretty accurate (it was also very good exercise, lol).