Tracking exercise

JessicaRabbit62020
JessicaRabbit62020 Posts: 10 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
For those with Fitbit and MFP. Do you track your exercise on Fitbit? If so, does it populate to MFP? Mine only seems to sync the steps. I want to count my workouts but not double count either. I’ll take any suggestions. Thank you!

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  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    Record your exercise on your Fitbit. The individual workouts don’t carry over to mfp (meaning you won’t see an entry in your diary for them) but the calories are included in the overall adjustment (which is what is on the entry with the steps).

    So the calories for your workouts are getting counted.

    If you want/need a newsfeed entry for them for your friends to “like”/comment on, you can always just make a plain/regular status and tell people what all you did. “Did Goat yoga at the brewery an under a disco light” is way more exciting than “burned 237 calories doing 52 minutes of cardio exercises including calisthenics, vigorous effort”.

  • YellowD0gs
    YellowD0gs Posts: 693 Member
    Duck_Puddle wrote: »
    “Did Goat yoga at the brewery an under a disco light” is way more exciting than “burned 237 calories doing 52 minutes of cardio exercises including calisthenics, vigorous effort”.

    ...adjusting news feed now... :D
  • tracymarie2012
    tracymarie2012 Posts: 164 Member
    Lol
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Duck_Puddle wrote: »
    Record your exercise on your Fitbit. The individual workouts don’t carry over to mfp (meaning you won’t see an entry in your diary for them) but the calories are included in the overall adjustment (which is what is on the entry with the steps).

    So the calories for your workouts are getting counted.

    If you want/need a newsfeed entry for them for your friends to “like”/comment on, you can always just make a plain/regular status and tell people what all you did. “Did Goat yoga at the brewery an under a disco light” is way more exciting than “burned 237 calories doing 52 minutes of cardio exercises including calisthenics, vigorous effort”.

    And way more inspiring.

    In that excellent example - possibly inspiring someone in 3 potential activities.

    To OP - the Fitbit Exercise diary is way more useful than the MFP one.
    You can go in to those Activity Records and rename them and add notes for the workouts.
    Sometimes those are very interesting upon review later.
  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,075 Member
    For most exercise I do the Fitbit tracking then like to log it here to have it listed in case I want to look back at it later. I change the calories burned to 1 calorie unless I don't track it. Things like the stair treadmill only count steps and not flights as you're technically not walking UP stairs and they come to you so I don't think that's giving the right amount of calories burned but it still goes by heart rate so it's not completely incorrect.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Katmary71 wrote: »
    For most exercise I do the Fitbit tracking then like to log it here to have it listed in case I want to look back at it later. I change the calories burned to 1 calorie unless I don't track it. Things like the stair treadmill only count steps and not flights as you're technically not walking UP stairs and they come to you so I don't think that's giving the right amount of calories burned but it still goes by heart rate so it's not completely incorrect.

    That is a huge issue and terrible advice to log a synced account for a workout with 1 calorie.

    That will be sent to Fitbit, and since they are a replace only system - your workout and your calorie burn for that chunk of time becomes 1 calorie.

    Way bad idea.

    You want to look at it later - that ability works on Fitbit account/app too - and better.

    You are correct Fitbit is doing a better estimate of calorie burn than some formula for flights - and yes it is by HR formula.

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