How To Get Floors On A Fitbit

Thanks for posting your inquiry on this thread regarding floors climbed.

How to get floors on a fitbit.

Fitbit trackers do not count elevation gains on a stairmaster inclined treadmill or other stationary exercise equipment because your body does not change in elevation by 10 feet. 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. Click submit and sync your device. It does not register floors when you go down.

Click personal info. Tap the today tab. But all your steps for both going up and down do get counted irrelevant of the floor. Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time.

By joining our community you agree to uphold these guidelines so please take a moment to look them over. This should certainly help if your device is not tracking data correctly. Lysmymiss welcome to the fitbit family. If there is a long pause before you reach 10 ft then it kind of resets and you don t get the floor credit.

How do i delete steps and floors in the fitbit app. How do i add my stride length to my fitbit account. You can t delete steps and floors. Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.

Partial floors are not counted so if you climb 15 ft you get credit for one floor. Unfortunately fitbit s floor functionality does not recognize the incremental effort of climbing up. Also check this article about how floors get tracked. The fitbit community is a gathering place for real people who wish to exchange ideas solutions tips techniques and insight about the fitbit products and services they love.

Since it depends on air pressure it can get a lot of false floors when there is a lot of wind. Under advanced settings find stride length and click edit. In this case i d recommend restarting your device. It is not possible to add floors climbed.

Your tracker registers one floor when you climb about ten feet at one time. Instead log a non step based activity such as driving to override the steps or floors. Fitbit trackers that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation. Click set your own and adjust your stride length.