Fitbit Flex: Tracking Your Fitness

Tracking Your Fitness with Flex

Your Flex tracks:
• Steps taken
• Calories burned
• Distance traveled
• Active minutes
• Time asleep
• Quality of sleep
• Number of times awoken

Setting Goals With Fitbit Flex

Your Flex is designed to track your progress towards the fitness goal you choose. Goals can be set for steps taken, calories burned, or distance traveled. To choose the specific goal you want to track:
1. Log in to your fitbit.com dashboard and click the gear icon in the top right corner.
2. Click Settings > Devices.
3. Under Daily Goal Progress, choose the goal you would like to track.
4. Sync your Flex to send the new goal to your tracker.

Note: Your Flex starts tracking your goal for the next day at midnight, according to the time zone you’ve selected for your account. The reset that occurs at midnight does not delete the previous day’s data; all your data will appear on your dashboard when you sync your tracker.

Once you’ve chosen which goal you want to track, you can set a specific value for that goal on the fitbit.com dashboard page or using the Fitbit app. For example, instead of the default 10,000 steps per day, you may want your goal to be 15,000per day. To change your goal value using your fitbit.com dashboard:

1. Find the tile that corresponds to your goal.
2. Click the gear icon in the lower left corner of the tile.
3. Change your Daily Goal value.

Checking Your Goal Progress

Tap your Fitbit Flex twice to see the LED indicator lights indicate your progress towards
your goal. Each fully lit indicator represents 20% of your total goal. A blinking light shows the
current segment of the goal you’re working on. In the example below, two lights are solid and the third is blinking. This means you’ve achieved between 40% and 60% of your overall goal.
When you reach your goal, your Flex will vibrate and flash the LED indicator lights to celebrate.

Tracking Sleep with Flex

Your Flex can track the length and quality of your sleep to help you improve your sleeping habits.
To enter sleep mode automatically, simply wear your Flex to bed. When your tracker syncs with your account in the morning, you will be able to view your sleep stats on your fitbit.com dashboard or through the Fitbit app.

To enter sleep mode manually, tap your Flex rapidly for one to two seconds. It will
vibrate and display two slowly dimming lights to indicate that sleep mode has begun.

NOTE:
During sleep mode, your Fitbit Flex will not display goal progress if you double tap. Instead, it will alternate two blinking lights, back-and-forth, to indicate that you are in sleep mode.When you wake up, tap your Flex rapidly for one to two seconds to exit sleep mode. Upon exiting sleep mode, your Flex will vibrate and flash all five LED indicator lights. If you forget to put your Flex into sleep mode, you can always enter your sleep time at http://www.fitbit.com/sleep. After creating a record, you will be able to view your sleep efficiency. You can view your sleep data on the fitbit.com dashboard or in the Fitbit app. If you choose, you can also set a goal for number of hours slept.

Using silent alarms

Your Flex can gently vibrate to wake or alert you with its silent alarm feature. Silent alarms can be configured to recur every day or on particular days of the week. You can create up to 8 silent alarms.

Setting silent alarms

You can add, edit, and delete silent alarms from the Fitbit  app or in the fitbit.com dashboard.
To set silent alarms using your fitbit.com dashboard:
1. Log in to your fitbit.com dashboard.
2. Click the gear icon in the top right corner of the page.
3. Click Settings.
4. Find Silent Alarms and click the Add Alarm button.
5. Enter the time you want the alarm to alert you.
6. Choose how often you want the alarm to occur:
a. Once – Your alarm will alert you at the specified time, and not repeat.
b. Repeats – Choose which days you want this alarm to repeat every week.
7. Click Save.
8. Sync your Flex to update your tracker with the new alarms.

Dismissing silent alarms

Your Fitbit Flex will vibrate and the LEDs will illuminate when your silent alarm goes off. This notification will repeat three times or until dismissed. You can dismiss the alarm by tapping a few times after the vibration has stopped.You’ll know your alarm has been dismissed when one light appears in the middle of your Flex’s display, then slowly fades. If you do not dismiss the alarm, your Flex alarm will repeat in nine minutes.