Gadgetory

if you're using a fitness band and it hasn't been calibrated you're doing it all wrong I have some bad news for you whatever mileage you track today well you might have walked more or less than what your fitness trackers actually shown you that's because by default trackers calculate the distance by multiplying your walking steps and walking stride lengths and stride length is set by using your height and gender so if your track our guests your stride length wrong then your distance is wrong too the good news is that if all you care about is how much you're walking relative to yesterday or tomorrow then your tracker isn't really letting you down but if you're like me and you want your fitness data to be exact then you'll have to calibrate your device the way you do this depends on what tracker you're using but here's how to do it for Fitbit head over to a place where you know the exact distance like a track now walk that distance and count your steps now you can figure out your stride length by dividing the total distance in feet by the number of steps you took when you have that number head to your Fitbit dashboard and update your new stride length if you have an Apple watch check out Dan Graziano's how-to on calibrating it and now you're doing it right