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Orangetheory Fitness and Fitbit

Bobbie145
Bobbie145 Posts: 331 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
For those of you that do OTF, do you wear your Fitbit during class? Do you add the calories burned from OTF? Does the MFP do the adjusting? I don’t want to double dip, but I don’t want to not record calories burned if the app adjusts.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,466 Member
    I see you haven't gotten answers yet. I'd like to help, but I'm a Garmin user, not a Fitbit user.

    Maybe an idea might be to join the Fitbit group on MFP and ask there?

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users

    What you should do is not OTF-specific, but may be Fitbit-specific. (From talking with OTF friends, I gather you wear a heart rate monitor during classes, but unless you have synched a device to MFP, MFP doesn't know about those calories.)

    A complicating factor is that the nature of OTF (some interval work, some strength-y/circuit-y work) means that fitness trackers may overestimate the workout calories, since those are kinds of workouts that heart rate monitors can be less good at estimating. That's not for certain going to happen, but it's a thing to keep an eye on.

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