high stair count on HR
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Does anyone else get an incredibly high stair count? Fitbit support told me they submitted this problem to their engineers. One day it said 1156 floors. Must've been climbing the Sears Tower!
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It can be to do with wind too if your outside....it can go mental with pressures and winds apparently....
I have read that the floors climbed is just a motivation tool...it is not factored into to your burn...only HR and steps...so don't stress over it too much...0 -
That's right, it is just a motivation tool. I get high stair counts (not 1000+, but too high), and I ignore them. It is worse on windy days, but it doesn't have to be windy for it to be wrong. I took the tile off my dashboard, off the display and off the dashboard on my phone app.0
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I often wondered about this..Once I did a lot of stair climbing & it barely registered any on my fitbit & then on days I do no stairs, it tells me otherwise!0
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That happened to me when I had a One. Not that high, but the wind will mess with that stat.0
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I have a 2-story house. Often, my One doesn't even register a single flight.0
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Stairs do not affect your calorie burn in any way. It's just supposed to be a fun motivator.
It's based on changes in air pressure, so you can get lots of "flights" just walking outside on a windy day.0 -
Well, that explains how I climbed 20 flights of stairs while driving through the mountains! Ha ha.0
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have the same issue with my Charge. did some research on fitbit.com and found that it changes per airpressure and at least 10 feet in height. so in my case, a may only get 1 or 2 going up and down stairs in the house, but on my exercise walk I can get 20 or more depending on route I take due to slight hillskeelybird57 wrote: »I have a 2-story house. Often, my One doesn't even register a single flight.
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If Charge HR does not use stairs climbed to affect calorie burn, what does it do if I climb 10 to 20 flights? I have a tall parking garage here and those stairs really get my heart pumping, especially if I go back down and do them again. I was hoping to get the calorie burn captured...
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If Charge HR does not use stairs climbed to affect calorie burn, what does it do if I climb 10 to 20 flights? I have a tall parking garage here and those stairs really get my heart pumping, especially if I go back down and do them again. I was hoping to get the calorie burn captured...
Yes, the calorie burn will be captured. It counts your steps. It may see that they're higher impact than your normal step (unless you're holding onto the hand rail with your Fitbit hand, in which case it will probably see them as lower impact). If your heart rate goes high enough, for long enough, to justify using the heart rate calorie calculation, then it will use that instead of steps/impact. You also might want to put it in exercise mode while climbing the stairs. I think that forces Fitbit to use heart rate for calorie calculations.0 -
There are known issues with some units registering higher stair counts.
I have the Surge, and when that starts happening, I restart it and it measures correctly again for awhile. To restart it, I hold down the left button and the bottom right button together until the screen fades completely (it is off). Then I press the left button to turn it back on.
I've read that the Charge HR has some known firmware issues that affect a small number of Charge HR's. The firmware upgrade wasn't available last time I looked.0 -
You also might want to put it in exercise mode while climbing the stairs. I think that forces Fitbit to use heart rate for calorie calculations.
Can you confirm the Charge HR will always use heart rate for calorie calculations if I put it in exercise mode? I do power walks and have seen competing guidance about whether it uses HR or steps.
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You also might want to put it in exercise mode while climbing the stairs. I think that forces Fitbit to use heart rate for calorie calculations.
Can you confirm the Charge HR will always use heart rate for calorie calculations if I put it in exercise mode? I do power walks and have seen competing guidance about whether it uses HR or steps.
No, I can't confirm that. I know it takes more frequent HR readings in exercise mode (every second vs every 5 seconds, I think) and I think I've seen it said that it used the HR when in exercise mode. But I haven't seen anything official on that (I haven't looked hard, either). I'm pretty darn sure that on a "power walk" where your heart rate gets up into the "fat burning zone" or above and stays there for a while, it will use the heart rate formula regardless of whether it is in exercise mode because it is seeing an elevated heart rate and plenty of steps. I take power walks, but I almost always use exercise mode because I like being able to go back and review it later (steps, heart rate, distance). It's exercise that elevates the heart rate without generating many steps that will end up not using the heart rate formula if exercise mode isn't used.0 -
No, I can't confirm that. I know it takes more frequent HR readings in exercise mode (every second vs every 5 seconds, I think) and I think I've seen it said that it used the HR when in exercise mode. But I haven't seen anything official on that (I haven't looked hard, either). I'm pretty darn sure that on a "power walk" where your heart rate gets up into the "fat burning zone" or above and stays there for a while, it will use the heart rate formula regardless of whether it is in exercise mode because it is seeing an elevated heart rate and plenty of steps. I take power walks, but I almost always use exercise mode because I like being able to go back and review it later (steps, heart rate, distance). It's exercise that elevates the heart rate without generating many steps that will end up not using the heart rate formula if exercise mode isn't used.
The fact that I can't find clear documentation from Fitbit on this fundamental issue is why I am not completely bought in to the product. Fortunately I bought it at a place with a 90 day return policy.
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Probably because just like Active and Very Active minutes calculations have changed through the years, they'll adjust some stuff as they see a need.
Each upgrade gives chance for that.0 -
I suspect that there are proprietary algorithms involved that they don't want to divulge.0
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My HR registered 2151 floors today.
Needless to say I didn't climb anything near that many. Funny thing is I was in a daily challenge and everyone we freaking out asking what I was doing.
I guess if it keeps doing this I'll swap it and see what happens.
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My HR registered 2151 floors today.
Needless to say I didn't climb anything near that many. Funny thing is I was in a daily challenge and everyone we freaking out asking what I was doing.
I guess if it keeps doing this I'll swap it and see what happens.
There's nothing wrong with it - the wind was probably blowing or a high/low front came in and/or left.0 -
keelybird57 wrote: »I have a 2-story house. Often, my One doesn't even register a single flight.
Same here.. sometimes it does, mostly it doesn't0
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