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Tracking Exercise with Fitbit Charge HR
Charge HR will automatically detect many exercises and record them in your exercise
history using our SmartTrack
™
feature. For more precision you can also tell your
tracker when exercise starts and stops and see a workout summary right on your
wrist. All workouts appear in your exercise history for deeper analysis and
comparison.
Using SmartTrack
Our SmartTrack feature automatically recognizes and records select exercises to
ensure you get credit for your most active moments of the day. When you sync your
tracker after a SmartTrack-detected exercise, you can find several stats in your
exercise history including duration, calories burned, impact on your day, and more.
By default SmartTrack detects continuous movement at least 15 minutes in length.
You can increase the minimum duration or disable SmartTrack for one or more
exercise types.
SmartTrack does not record more precise exercise stats. If you want to track a
specific exercise with precise stats, you should use exercise mode on your Charge
HR.
For more information about customizing and using SmartTrack, see
help.fitbit.com
.
Using exercise mode
Exercise mode works similar to the trip mode on a car’s odometer. For example, if
you put your tracker in exercise mode and use an elliptical machine, you can view
stats measured for that exercise, such as heart rate and calories burned. When you
end exercise mode and sync your data, you’ll see an entry for a “Workout” exercise
on your dashboard.
The entry provides a summary of the activity's stats as well as a
minute-by-minute graph.
To use exercise mode:
1.
Press and hold the button until a stopwatch icon appears. Your tracker
vibrates, the timer starts counting immediately, and elapsed time is shown.
2.
To view stats being tracked during the exercise, press the button to advance
through the stats, which appear in the following order:
•
Elapsed time
•
Current heart rate and heart rate zone
•
Calories burned
•
Steps taken
•
Distance covered
•
Floors climbed
•
Time of day
3.
When you finish the activity, press and hold the button to end exercise mode.
