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Cycling for steps

I need the option of converting all activity to steps.  I need to earn steps while cycling and playing drums.  The reason being my employer's health insurance physical activity reward program gives me rewards for steps and I get the most rewards if everything equates to steps like it does with the junk fitbit zip that I have had for ten years. I don't know why Garmin can't or won't or has no interest in adding this as a feature. I'm pretty sure plenty of people are in the same boat. My employer employs thousands. I just bought an Instinct and love everything about it but I may have to return it because it doesn't give me steps when I cycle.  As much as I love it, I don't want to give up a couple of hundred dollars a year in Amazon gift cards because I don't get as many steps as I do with a fitbit zip. I understand some people don't want it to work this way, but couldn't the option be added for those that do? Sick of looking at the fitbit zip but it gives me lots of steps that equal dollars so I may be stuck with it until Garmin gets it together.

  • Steps are steps. When you bike you take very few steps. Getting steps from biking would be fake steps.

    Usually for these type of challenges you use conversion tables for time/distance to steps and enter those steps into another system. 

    You can get faked biking steps if you strap the watch to you ankle. Remember that you need to track the ride as running and then change to biking afterwards in Connect. 

  • If I strap it to my ankle I can't read the watch face. It's a tool I bought for my use. I've used hammers for things other than driving nails. I want to use a tool for whatever I want to use the tool for. I frequently modify tools for my needs. As long as the normal operation is still available to those who want it, what does it matter to them?  My employer is rewarding me for activity and cycling is an activity so in that way it is not cheating.

  • It is odd that all activities are measured in steps. It would be better if steps, distance and time were used.

    Using steps to measure biking is using a hammer for driving nails. Biking is measured in time and distance.

    The right tool for logging your biking would be a bike computer. Garmin got the Edge units.

    How are you reporting your activities to your employer? It is an integration to Garmin or are you manually reporting it?