Fitbit

Coachbox and Fitbit: activity and health data in one place

Workouts and health data come in automatically. Useful for athletes who wear a Fitbit around the clock.

What comes into Coachbox

  • Completed activities
  • Daily metrics
  • Sleep
  • Resting heart rate
  • Steps
  • Calories

What this connection cannot do

  • Planned workouts cannot be sent to a Fitbit device. The connection reads from Fitbit, it does not write back.

Fitbit sits in a different place from a training watch. It is the device an athlete wears while they work, sleep and recover, which makes it a strong source for the numbers between sessions rather than during them.

Where it fits

Coachbox pulls daily metrics from one platform, so the numbers on your dashboard never contradict each other. That choice is separate from where the workouts come from. An athlete can record every session on a Garmin and still have Fitbit deliver steps, sleep and resting heart rate, because they wear the Fitbit the other twenty-two hours of the day.

Set it under Settings, Synchronisation, Metrics.

Workouts too

Activities recorded on the Fitbit itself come across as well, with the data the device captured. For most athletes that is the walk, the gym session or the easy run they did without strapping on the training watch, and it still counts towards the load you are tracking.

One direction only

Fitbit does not accept a structured workout from an outside platform, so nothing goes back the other way. Your athlete follows the planned session in the Coachbox app.

Connecting Fitbit

  1. 1Your athlete opens Settings and goes to the Synchronisation tab.
  2. 2They find Fitbit under the non-active connections and click Connect.
  3. 3They log in at Fitbit and authorise Coachbox.
Full step-by-step guide in the help centre

Questions about integrations

Is Fitbit useful if my athlete trains with another watch?

Very. A lot of athletes race with a Garmin and wear a Fitbit the rest of the day. Set Fitbit as the metrics source and their steps, sleep and resting heart rate come from the device they actually wear, while their workouts keep arriving from the training watch.

Can I send a planned workout to a Fitbit?

No. Fitbit does not accept a structured session from an external platform.

Which health data comes across?

Steps, active calories, resting heart rate and sleep, provided Fitbit is the platform you selected under Metrics.

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