Fitbit sync and exercise question

mindyandy420
mindyandy420 Posts: 10 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
My question is if your fitbit is synced of course it picks up your steps but do you also add your gym workout to your exercise points or does the fitbit add that? To me it looks like the fitbit only counts my steps.
TIA

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  • tapwaters
    tapwaters Posts: 428 Member
    It all goes through fitbit. I noticed if you also add it via MFP'ers it will effectively double add.
  • mindyandy420
    mindyandy420 Posts: 10 Member
    My fit it must not be syncing right. Says I've only burned 501 calories but my fitbit app says 1496. Very strange
  • leannebillingham84
    leannebillingham84 Posts: 5 Member
    edited January 2017
    I noticed that on mine. I read something about a calorie deficit or something. I had to change the settings x
  • _runnerbean_
    _runnerbean_ Posts: 640 Member
    The Fitbit app includes calories you burn just by being alive (breathing etc). The mfp calories already include this so it shows as the extra calories only.
    Make sure to select the correct time when you enter exercise onto mfp. For example, if you do an aerobics class at 10am you might step 1000 steps but burn 400 cals. If you input the aerobics class to mfp and choose 10am start time with a one hour session it will deduct the calories burnt from the 1000 steps you walked during the class to prevent double counting. Sometimes it takes a few minutes for this to show up but it will show by the end of the day.
  • _runnerbean_
    _runnerbean_ Posts: 640 Member
    mindyandy420 wrote: »
    My fit it must not be syncing right. Says I've only burned 501 calories but my fitbit app says 1496. Very strange
    The 1496 calories is total calories used in the day from breathing, digesting food etc. The 501 calories are the extra from the exercise you did that day (mfp doesn't show your "staying alive" calories.) there are technical terms for these figures - Basal metabolic rate and TDEE
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