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Steps per lap

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1 month ago

How do I view steps per lap on the garmin app?

  • 0 1 month ago

    You can't but you have 2 other options:

    1) estimate the number of steps per lap by taking Garmin's [rounded] average cadence per lap and multiplying by the lap time

    e.g. If your lap time is 4 min 45 seconds, and your lap cadence is [roughly]185, the number of steps for that lap is roughly:

    (minutes * steps / minutes = steps)

    activity time {in minutes} * cadence {in steps per minute} = number of steps

    (4 + (45/60)) * 185 = 878.75

    2) export the activity FIT file and look at it in a 3rd party tool

    - Open activity in Connect website

    - Export activity: click gear icon [upper right] > Export File

    This gives you the original FIT file inside of a ZIP file

    - open fitfileviewer.com and select the file you just exported

    - scroll to the Lap table

    this is a table of your laps, as recorded by the device

    - you will see a column called total cycles with values like "400 strides"

    In this context: 1 cycle = 1 stride = 2 steps

    Multiply the total cycles value in each row by 2 to get the total number of steps for each lap, as recorded by the device

    [In this table you'll also see the fractional part of the average cadence which Connect doesn't show you]

  • 0 1 month ago

    There are also some Connect IQ apps, storing step details in the activity file, including the number of steps in each lap. You can then view the stats directly in Garmin Connect. Search the CIQ store for Data Field apps and the expression "activity steps"

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to trux

    Here is a data field which seems to be able to do what you want:

    Step Session and Goal Recorder [hSteps]

    https://apps.garmin.com/apps/83a38080-e76a-4ae2-aadf-83ef9cfa3713 

    I have not tried it myself though.

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    Here's another one:

    Steps to FIT

    https://apps.garmin.com/apps/eb7018d6-3a13-4530-92ec-ed51d1f56e07 

    This part of the description is interesting:

    "This datafield shows the number of steps taken during an activity. It only records steps when the timer is running."

    It implies that other CIQ data fields *may* record steps that were taken while the timer is not running. I can see why, because the Connect IQ API does not provide a direct / easy way to track steps during an activity only when the timer is running. The CIQ API only provides total steps since midnight (regardless of whether the timer is running or not), so CIQ apps have to do some calculations to determine steps that were taken while the timer is running.

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    Honestly, I know it's not the most user-friendly solution, but I think if you are looking for the most accurate data (or at least the exact data that Garmin recorded), exporting the activity and looking into the total cycles field might be the best solution.

    Every data field that displays or records this info has to determine "activity steps" an indirect way where results may very between data fields, and which may not match the steps data that is recorded to the FIT file by the device, especially when you take timer pauses into account.