Steps are only of interest to those who lead a very inactive/sedentary life, and tend to forget about moving about over the course of a day. For anyone who is active at least an hour or two a day steps…
Late to the game but suppot here. Of course you don't want activity steps influencing daily non activity targets. Common sense as before long your daily steps would be impossible without an activity. The problem is more acute when it appears certain apps are using step count adjustment in calorie calculations.
Still cannot agree to this logic. A step is a step is a step whether it's part of a walk or a run. My count goes up and down like a yo-yo. But then I'm more interested in the average over time. Well I would be if I was bothered.
However, steps added swimming or cycling or anything other than running/walking is a very different matter.
Steps are only of interest to those who lead a very inactive/sedentary life, and tend to forget about moving about over the course of a day. For anyone who is active at least an hour or two a day steps are completely irrelevant because they will hit any health-related target easily. I think Polar's way of doing things makes much more sense. I usually average 30k steps a day but due to my high activity goal won't always reach 100% unless those steps are accompanied with a raised HR, say from a run.
So has there been any movement on this? Since I've had my FR645M I've noticed how stupid it is that the activity doesn't show me how many steps I made during that activity, and the option to exclude from daily count makes sense.
The fact that my runs have all these metrics, but *don't* show how many steps I actually took to me is just a massive oversight.
And this thread is 2 years old now, so clearly there's little hope...
Your activity shows duration and shows cadens. Pick up an calculator and find out how many steps you took.
But why on earth do you want to know how many steps you took? That puzzles me.
To become a better atleet you may want to vary the duration of your runs. To be a more efficient runner you may want to vary your cadans.
There is nothing that can improve you as an atleet that is related to the number of steps you take during an activity.
There is a lot of things wrong with garmin software. Really a lot. But not reporting the number of steps you take during a run is not one of them.