Fitbit treadmill calories???

megabitch2007
megabitch2007 Posts: 7
in Fitness and Exercise
I use the treadmill at 4mph at an incline of 5%, and I've found that my fitbit actually says I burn MORE calories when I don't log it as a separate activity (treadmill, 5% incline, 4mph). Just the step count alone gives me more calories per hour than actually logging in the incline factor. I find this really weird, since I don't think my Zip would know that I am working at an incline, should actually log it or just go with the step count calories?

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  • GLH2576
    GLH2576 Posts: 70 Member
    You can check the post below from one of the Fitbit design engineers:

    http://blog.fitbit.com/246/

    I would guess that on the treadmill you are walking faster than you normally do and so the Fitbit 3-axis accelerometer takes that into account and gives you extra calorie credit. If you have the Fitbit tied into your MFP account I would just let the two accounts figure it out that way you will not take double credit for one activity. The treadmill incline itself does not seem to be a factor.

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