Activity not in database: How to customize an existing activity?
#11
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Hi Everyone. Great suggestions. Sometimes getting the correct calorie burned information for activities can be hard. Vendors aren't always the most reliable sources and studies that contain all the info are a bit hard to come by.
We would love to do custom activity functionality, but it isn't quite as easy as custom foods. Where foods have a certain nutrition for everyone who eats it, activities don't work that way. Usually calorie burn is determined by a percentage of your normal metabolism. So, for example, doing some hard work might burn 200% of you normal metabolism. Most users won't have this kind of information to create the custom activity. You can't just enter 200 calories/hr because that will change as your weight and metabolism change. We will think about it though and see if we can simplify and get something to you.
Also, keep up the suggestions for which activites to add to our database. I will do special searches for these activities and try to find some studies with good data.
Thanks again! We love the suggestions.
We would love to do custom activity functionality, but it isn't quite as easy as custom foods. Where foods have a certain nutrition for everyone who eats it, activities don't work that way. Usually calorie burn is determined by a percentage of your normal metabolism. So, for example, doing some hard work might burn 200% of you normal metabolism. Most users won't have this kind of information to create the custom activity. You can't just enter 200 calories/hr because that will change as your weight and metabolism change. We will think about it though and see if we can simplify and get something to you.
Also, keep up the suggestions for which activites to add to our database. I will do special searches for these activities and try to find some studies with good data.
Thanks again! We love the suggestions.
#12
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I just thought of a possible enhancement that might work. What if we just added a way to enter extra calories in your activity chart? So, in the case where you know the machine told you that you burned 300 calories, you could just enter an extra 300 calories without having FitDay do the calculation for you?
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.
#13
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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I just thought of a possible enhancement that might work. What if we just added a way to enter extra calories in your activity chart? So, in the case where you know the machine told you that you burned 300 calories, you could just enter an extra 300 calories without having FitDay do the calculation for you?
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.
#14
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FitDay does make some assumptions based on your lifestyle choice. If you say "standing" for your lifestyle, it doesn't use that for all 24 hours, just for some estimate of average work day. Our PC application allows you to customize this in detail. That is somethng we can consider moving to the web version.
#15
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I just thought of a possible enhancement that might work. What if we just added a way to enter extra calories in your activity chart? So, in the case where you know the machine told you that you burned 300 calories, you could just enter an extra 300 calories without having FitDay do the calculation for you?
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.
Thank You!!
#16
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The more people using it, the more ad revenue you'll make
#17
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OK, I am going to talk this over here and think about a nice solution. Thanks for all the input and if you think of anything else keep posting. We do follow these boards closely.
We love people using the app and we do like revenue, but we always try to get the solution correct over ad views. If we can make the app better and it happens to drop page views, we always come down on the side of a better app. But I get your point. We definitly like having more people use FitDay!
We love people using the app and we do like revenue, but we always try to get the solution correct over ad views. If we can make the app better and it happens to drop page views, we always come down on the side of a better app. But I get your point. We definitly like having more people use FitDay!
#18
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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I just thought of a possible enhancement that might work. What if we just added a way to enter extra calories in your activity chart? So, in the case where you know the machine told you that you burned 300 calories, you could just enter an extra 300 calories without having FitDay do the calculation for you?
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.
Give me some feedback on whether that would help. It would get around FitDay needing to know every activity, but isn't quite as convenient.