Steps not counting properly when using walking poles

Yesterday I did a 6.5 mile walk using walking poles. When i got to the end my venu 2 has only recorded 7k steps when i would expect to be around 20k +.
Does using poles affect the counting (different motion?)? How can i manually edit the steps count?

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seilogramp 5 months ago +1

Yes, as mentioned by Garmin here -

Garmin - Chris said:
The behavior is normal across all of our outdoor watches. Your steps taken do not come from having physically taken steps but from the swing of your…

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0 seilogramp 5 months ago

Yes, as mentioned by Garmin here -

Garmin - Chris said:
The behavior is normal across all of our outdoor watches. Your steps taken do not come from having physically taken steps but from the swing of your watch wearing arm. It is your accelerometer sensor recognizing your arm back and forth movement that is naturally made taking steps.

Pushing a shopping cart, golfing and using a golf cart to go hole-to-hole, carrying a young child etc. will lower your step totals seen by your watch.

Steps cannot be manually edited. A possible workaround is to place the watch in a hip pocket, where the more normal step count can be recorded.

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