What's the point of my fitbit?

AKNMHunt
AKNMHunt Posts: 168 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I have the Fitbit One and the Polar FT4. I use the HRM for my workouts, but if that overrides what my Fitbit does, what's the point of wearing it?

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  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    Tracking your activity during the other 23 hours a day.
  • Blossomforth13
    Blossomforth13 Posts: 41
    HRM's are for workouts that the Fitbit won't get an accurate read on, like weightlifting or spinning. Fitbit reads more of the calories burned every day as you move, and how much you move/how many steps you take overall. HRM's are more for specific time periods when you're actively trying to burn calories instead of just going about your day.
  • AKNMHunt
    AKNMHunt Posts: 168 Member
    But am I supposed to input it or anything? When I put in my workout, nothing from my Fitbit goes in.
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    But am I supposed to input it or anything? When I put in my workout, nothing from my Fitbit goes in.

    If your HRM is tracking your cardio workout and overriding your fitbit, why the hell would you want your fitbit to also track that period of time? Fitbits track all day, step based activity. HRMs track cardio. Where the two overlap, one must take priority otherwise you double count an activity.

    Pretty simple.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Your Fitbit burn is your TDEE. Way more accurate than any online calculator.

    MFP has a Fitbit Users group: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/1307-fitbit-users
  • AKNMHunt
    AKNMHunt Posts: 168 Member
    But am I supposed to input it or anything? When I put in my workout, nothing from my Fitbit goes in.

    If your HRM is tracking your cardio workout and overriding your fitbit, why the hell would you want your fitbit to also track that period of time? Fitbits track all day, step based activity. HRMs track cardio. Where the two overlap, one must take priority otherwise you double count an activity.

    Pretty simple.

    I know they aren't supposed to overlap, but I didn't know if it's supposed to add in the whole rest of the day.
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Have you linked your MFP and Fitbit accounts. Ave you set your activity level on Fit bit to the right level. This doesn't matter if you've enabled negative adjustments.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    I use the HRM for my workouts,

    What type of workouts do you do?

    Fitbit is meaningless if you're doing resistance training, rowing, cycling etc, similarly the HRM doesn't have any value if you're doing resistance training.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Fitbit is meaningless if you're doing resistance training, rowing, cycling etc.
    Activity trackers track step based activity. Non-step exercise has to be logged either in Fitbit or in MFP. I find Fitbit's burns to be way more accurate than MFP's one-size-fits-all guesstimates.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    Fitbit is meaningless if you're doing resistance training, rowing, cycling etc.
    Activity trackers track step based activity.

    Which is why it's meaningless for the examples cited, and before we can meaningfully answer the question we need to know what type of training the originator is doing.
  • Sevio
    Sevio Posts: 181 Member
    I also have a fitbit and a Polar HRM. What I do is go into MFP and log my workout, start time, how many minutes, and calorie burn from the HRM for that timeframe. If you have MFP and Fitbit syncing together then what you logged will sync over to Fibit and override it.
    I do this for the cardio exercise I do at the gym. Treadmill, Arc Trainer but not for the strength training portion.

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