Floors Climbed

Floors climbed is a device estimate of how many flights of stairs (or equivalent elevation) you ascended in a day, derived from a barometric altimeter detecting pressure changes as you go up. A "floor" is typically defined as roughly 3 meters (~10 feet) of ascent.

It's a minor but pleasant metric: stair climbing is more intense than flat walking, so floors nudge users toward the higher-effort incidental activity that flat steps don't distinguish. It overlaps conceptually with elevation-gain (the workout-side vertical metric) and contributes to overall neat.

Accuracy caveats:

• The barometric sensor is fooled by weather pressure changes, elevators, windy conditions, and opening doors/HVAC, so daily floor counts can be noticeably off.
• It only catches ascent; descending stairs usually doesn't count despite real (if lower) energy cost.

Treat it as a soft motivational extra (e.g. "take the stairs") rather than a precise training or energy metric. Trend it loosely if at all.

• Floors estimated from a barometric altimeter; ~1 floor ≈ 3 m (~10 ft) ascent.
• Rewards higher-intensity incidental movement that steps don't separate.
• Counts ascent only; descent generally excluded.
• Fooled by weather, elevators, wind, HVAC — noticeably noisy.
• A motivational extra, not a precise training/energy metric.

• steps — floors add an intensity nuance steps lack.
• elevation-gain — the workout-side vertical metric.
• neat — stair climbing contributes to NEAT.
• active-minutes — stairs often register as active minutes too.