Unfortunately fitbit s floor functionality does not recognize the incremental effort of climbing up.
Does fitbit charge 2 track floors.
Most of the times it is just about knowing how the fitbit trackers work.
Maybe it would track the elevation gain and you would get floor badges.
Look at specifications on their website.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
Simple comfortable and very helpful.
August 26 2017 at 7 46 am.
Though your tracker is designed to look for pressure changes based on elevation gains pressure changes due to other causes such as a gust of wind a weather change or opening a door can occasionally cause your.
And yes it tracks floors.
In fact floors do not count for anything floors do not carry any incremental caloric burn value it s just a statistic aimed at keeping people motivated.
Fitbit one fitbit charge and fitbit ionic to name a few.
Your charge 2 will celebrate when you reach your main goal.
Beside that it tracks steps distance calories burn heart rate sleep hourly movements active minutes and it has breathing sessions that you can adjust to 2 or 5 minutes.
Only up one floor in my house and already in my fitbit i have 10.
I realized this on the second day and looked at the blog and reset it as directed.
A number of the fitbit trackers can measure floors climbed.
Wear your charge 2 everyday to track a variety of stats.
But all your steps for both going up and down do get counted irrelevant of the floor.
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In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors.
Calories burned total for day including rest active minutes with strenuous activity.
Your fitbit charge 2 calculates floors using an altimeter which is a sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure.
This is my fourth day of having the fitbit charge 3.
And other times when you walk uphill your charge 2 will also record floors.
Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors.
And of course it does not register floors when you go down.
Your tracker registers one floor when you climb about ten feet at one time.
It does not track the floors climbed.
What info does the fitbit read when you cycle.
All day heart rate and zones.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
Fitbit devices don t count floors on stationary exercise equipment such as a stairmaster or treadmill or when you go down a flight of steps.
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This story happened to me in 2015 while wearing a fitbit charge hr fitness tracker.