Tracking Goals in FitnessSyncer
What makes FitnessSyncer unique is the ability to track your goals from multiple devices and platforms. Seeing your data in one place makes it easier to stay inspired, motivated, and accountable!
To get started, add your Goals on your Profile.
For example, if you want to track a weight goal from a device such as the Fitbit Aria, start by configuring a Body Composition Source Task from this device.
Once this is configured, visit the Goals section of your Profile, and:
- Click “Add” near “Body Composition Goals.”
- Enter your goal weight in the Value field.
- Choose whether you are targeting less than that weight or more than that weight
- A weight is a level you are working towards rather than something you do each day, so there is nothing to add up and no period to choose.
- Click “Save” at the bottom of the page
Now you are ready to use your first goal. To see your goal, go to the Dashboard. On the Weight Chart, you will now see a Goal line at your chosen value. You will also see your goals highlighted in KPIs on the Calendar or Email Updates.
Here are ideas for other goals you can set:
- Steps per Day
- Flights Climbed per Day
- Distance per Week
- Target Glucose
- Target Calories Consumed per Day
- Target Carbohydrates per Day
- Workout 4 times a Week (Pro Only)
We only ask how often a goal applies when the question has an answer. Steps, distance and calories add up over time, so a target has to say Day, Week or Month to mean anything. A weight, a blood pressure or a glucose reading is a level rather than a total, so there is nothing to add up and we do not ask.
A few goals are a time of day rather than an amount, such as the bed time and wake time goals under Sleep. Enter these the way you would read them off a clock, as four digits with no separator: 2315 for 11:15 PM, and 0630 for 6:30 AM. The Goals Report and your charts show them back to you as a time, in whichever clock style your profile uses.
- Use a 24 hour reading, so an evening bed time is 2200 through 2359 and an after midnight one is 0000 through 0300.
- “More Than” on a bed time means later, and “Less Than” means earlier. A bed time just after midnight counts as later than one at 11 PM, which is what you want when you are trying to get to bed earlier.
- Bed Time Hour and Awake Hour record the hour only, so the last two digits are ignored and 2315 means the same as 2300. Pick Bed Time or Awake Time instead if you want the goal to be exact to the minute.
You can also manage historic goals within FitnessSyncer. Most of these will be automatically managed when you save, but you can also go into the settings of the goal and add historic values. Keep in mind that the current value has been removed from the list you are editing and is not affected by these changes.
For each of your goals which are daily goals, you can see how many days back you have met this goal on the Dashboard. For example, if your goal is 10,000 steps a day, and for the last 3 days, you have met that, but 4 days ago, you did not, this would tell you 3 days of meeting the goal. Likewise, the Your Best will show you the most consecutive days of meeting that goal.
The Goals Report on the Dashboard brings all of this together. Goals that apply per day, week or month show how often you hit them over the recent period, your current streak and your best one, and a chart marking each period you met the target. Goals that are a standing target, such as a weight or a blood pressure you are working towards, instead show how far you have to go and, if you are moving towards it, an estimate of when you will arrive at your recent rate. If the rate is flat or heading the other way, we say so rather than invent a date.
When setting a goal, make sure that it is achievable based on your history. Your Best and FitnessSyncer Dashboard are great places for you to explore your history and see what you have been able to do so far and make sure that your goal is achievable and you stay motivated to reach it.
FitnessSyncer Pro users can add unlimited goals on any data set. Non-Pro users have a basic set of metrics that are available goal tracking.
FitnessSyncer Pro users can also apply filters to their goals. For example, you can create a goal to run 3 times a week by adding a filter to filter out activities that are not running. Such goals would be displayed only on charts that have the same filter applied.
