Fitbit Charge HR

Darrenon91

Hi all,

Ive been given a Charge HR as a gift and im already very impressed. I have read through a few old threads but nothing answers my queries so maybe someone can help.

Apart from height, weight and age is there anything else I need to change/enter? Ive entered in a weight goal but I don't like the food/calorie tracker compared to My fitness pal so im just gong to use the Fitbit to track calories burned.

Also has anyone worn one while playing contact sports? Is it recommended? Even if I wore it once during training/game it would give me an idea of the number of calories im burning.

Thanks in advance.

Zillah

Step counter works fine for sports. It'll give some heart rate data but it won't be hugely active while you're running around, but if you stop and hold it still for a second it'll get a reading.

The calorie burn count is largely voodoo in my opinion. It increases with activity but lord knows if it's accurate.

I think you can input your stride length too? I don't quite remember, I ditched mine a while back.

Yeah i put in long stride for mine
I would imagine that just affects the distance covered calc

Mars Bar

Did you know you can link your Fitbit account to your MFP account so you only need to track on MFP and it will automatically come up on your Fitbit dashboard?

Darrenon91

Zillah wrote: »

The calorie burn count is largely voodoo in my opinion. It increases with activity but lord knows if it's accurate.
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Ok this might make sense because yesterday I apparently burned 4000 cals. I cant see how this is possible. I work an office job and only did a light training session in the evening.

Mars Bar wrote: »

Did you know you can link your Fitbit account to your MFP account so you only need to track on MFP and it will automatically come up on your Fitbit dashboard?

Ok this is great. How do I do this? I have had a look around the app but no luck.

Anyone know what an above average stride length would be?

Mars Bar

Do it on the website on desktop. I think you go to the MFP website and go to the apps tab and download fitbit tracker and connect it from there. You won't see each meal on fitbit like you do on MFP but it will take the calories from MFP. You can go to the exercise on MFP and set up a negative adjustment so it includes calories burned from exercise in your calorie intake but I have that turned off coz I wouldn't be 100% sure about the accuracy and then I'll be overeating.

Darrenon91

Mars Bar wrote: »

Do it on the website on desktop. I think you go to the MFP website and go to the apps tab and download fitbit tracker and connect it from there. You won't see each meal on fitbit like you do on MFP but it will take the calories from MFP. You can go to the exercise on MFP and set up a negative adjustment so it includes calories burned from exercise in your calorie intake but I have that turned off coz I wouldn't be 100% sure about the accuracy and then I'll be overeating.

That's great. Thanks. The calories burned counter was one of the main things that I need it for so if it was pretty inaccurate that would be disappointing. I never imagined burning 4000 calories a day but we will see how it tracks it over the next few days.

Blacktie.

Surprisingly I found the calorie burned counter not too far off. The only time I saw it go way off was if I done a lot of walking! I think it way over estimated there but in general it seems to be off by about 50-100 calories only.

Mars Bar

I think the calories burned from exercise might be a bit generous but the calories burned on a rest day which would be close to my BMR is not too far off. I don't have my calories burned from exercise linked to MFP coz I'll just try and eat those back!

timple23

just bought a fitbit and in the first full day when i had it on at 10,000 fitbit steps, my iphone health monitor was only at 5,488? and i had the phone on me 95% of the time, standing most of the time too so not at a desk. any reason for the big difference?

also for the calories burned figure, does that include your maintenance calories?

Darrenon91

timple23 wrote: »

just bought a fitbit and in the first full day when i had it on at 10,000 fitbit steps, my iphone health monitor was only at 5,488? and i had the phone on me 95% of the time, standing most of the time too so not at a desk. any reason for the big difference?

also for the calories burned figure, does that include your maintenance calories?

Not sure why it would be so different. Did you try adjust the stride length to match on both?

Also the calories burned figure is the total calories burned so yes it includes your maintenance calories.