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Q: Exercise ring isn't updating.

I've used the Workout app for two days now and despite 20 minutes each time of indoor cycling, the exercise ring hasn't budged and just says 0 of 20 minutes.

 

Any ideas?

Watch Standard 42mm, Other OS

Posted on Apr 27, 2015 12:20 AM

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 10, 2015 4:10 AM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Sep 10, 2015 4:10 AM in response to Winston Churchill

    I tried it when hiking, and the battery lasted considerably longer (on the watch). For some reason the iPhone battery was drained instead. Perhaps the watch was connecting more frequently to the iPhone.

    On the bike no exercise registered at all in Power Saving Mode, probably because I like to keep both hands on the handle bars  and the motion sensor could not register much activity.

  • by Sara Day,

    Sara Day Sara Day Sep 17, 2015 5:52 AM in response to malrats
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    Sep 17, 2015 5:52 AM in response to malrats

    I just got my watch the other day and I'm experiencing similar confusion.

     

    I went for a 34 minute run this morning, I know my heart rate was elevated more than the level of a "brisk walk" but I was only credited with 11 minutes of exercise. I did not start the workout app, so I'm not sure if that has any bearing on the recording, though reading the above comments it seems that it would not. The steps and mileage is pretty close as I was also running with my garmin GPS running watch. But I feel as though I lost out on exercise, as silly as it seems to care about that, I do

  • by Sara Day,

    Sara Day Sara Day Sep 17, 2015 6:12 AM in response to Sara Day
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    Sep 17, 2015 6:12 AM in response to Sara Day

    In looking further, I think that not using the workout mode to track means that the heart rate isn't checked often as I have no heart rate data points during my run which would explain why I'm not credited with activity or calories.

  • by G3gator,

    G3gator G3gator Sep 17, 2015 6:48 AM in response to Sara Day
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    Sep 17, 2015 6:48 AM in response to Sara Day

    I don't think heart-rate determines 'exercise' minutes. However, from what I understand it does enter the calculation of calories.  And, this would make sense. A very fit person might have trouble registering 'exercise' while an unfit person, or one with heart problems, would easily register exercise were heart-rate the determiner.

     

    George

  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sep 17, 2015 10:08 AM in response to G3gator
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    Sep 17, 2015 10:08 AM in response to G3gator

    Yes your heart rate is used to determine whether you are credited exercise or not.

  • by sminu mary,

    sminu mary sminu mary Sep 17, 2015 10:10 AM in response to John-75
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    Sep 17, 2015 10:10 AM in response to John-75

    I read this on the Apple blog: "The Activity app relies on arm motion and an accelerometer to track movement, whereas the Workout app uses a heart rate sensor and GPS. Open the Workout app on your Apple Watch, tap Outdoor Walk, and bring your iPhone on the walk."

     

    Hope it helps

  • by Sara Day,

    Sara Day Sara Day Sep 17, 2015 10:13 AM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Sep 17, 2015 10:13 AM in response to Winston Churchill

    Because I didn't have it tracking in a workout mode, it seemed not to ping my heartrate as often. Is that the normally the case?

     

    Last night I had it in workout mode for a walk and I had many heart rate readings over the 40 minutes I exercised, versus almost no readings for my non recorded workout  run this morning.

  • by sminu mary,

    sminu mary sminu mary Sep 17, 2015 10:14 AM in response to Lueds
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    Sep 17, 2015 10:14 AM in response to Lueds

    The Activity app relies on arm motion and an accelerometer to track movement, whereas the Workout app uses a heart rate sensor and GPS. Open the Workout app on your Apple Watch, tap Outdoor Walk, and bring your iPhone on the walk.

  • by Jonathan UK,

    Jonathan UK Jonathan UK Sep 17, 2015 10:33 AM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Sep 17, 2015 10:33 AM in response to Winston Churchill

    To place the previously quoted passages in context:

     

    "Complete your daily Exercise goal by exercising for at least 30 minutes each day.  Every full minute of movement equalling or exceeding the intensity of a brisk walk counts toward your daily Exercise and Move goals.  Any activity below the intensity of a brisk walk counts only toward your daily Move goal.

    Make sure you earn Exercise credit during walks by allowing the arm with your Apple Watch to swing naturally. For example, while walking your pet, let the arm with your watch swing freely while the other holds the leash.

     

    If you need both hands while walking, for example to push a stroller, you can still earn Exercise credit by using the Workout app. The Activity app relies on arm motion and an accelerometer to track movement, whereas the Workout app uses a heart rate sensor and GPS. Open the Workout app on your Apple Watch, tap Outdoor Walk, and bring your iPhone on the walk."

     

    Use the Activity app on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

  • by Sara Day,

    Sara Day Sara Day Sep 17, 2015 10:36 AM in response to Jonathan UK
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    Sep 17, 2015 10:36 AM in response to Jonathan UK

    Okay, so this confuses me further. I cannot figure out why I got basically 0 exercise credit for my run this morning. Seeing as I was running, at quick-ish pace (definitely higher than a "brisk walk"), I was definitely using the accelerometer in the watch. Granted, I was running so my arms might not have been swinging "naturally" as they were bent at a more acute angle, but for over half an hour of activity I feel like I'm missing some reason why it wasn't credited.

  • by Techlen,

    Techlen Techlen Sep 17, 2015 10:41 AM in response to Sara Day
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    Sep 17, 2015 10:41 AM in response to Sara Day

    Once everyone can update to watch OS 2.0 you'll see that the exercise ring works a lot better than it used to.  I have been running the beta software for over a month now and Apple did fix the exercise ring from my initial complaints from how it worked very first OS.

    Now when I run walk fast or do anything like that I automatically get credit for my exercise whereas on the watch OS 1 you really had to start the exercise to get good results.  So long story short when you guys all go to the new operating system on the watch I think you'll find the exercise ring is working a lot better.

  • by G3gator,

    G3gator G3gator Sep 17, 2015 11:58 AM in response to G3gator
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    Sep 17, 2015 11:58 AM in response to G3gator

    But, on a very brisk walk last weekend, I got exercise credit without a single reading of the heart-rate monitor during the duration of the walk. I have also test walked slowly with the outdoor-walk workout initiated not received any 'exercise' credit. Therefore, I have concluded that the determinate is not the heart-rate monitor.

     

    My experience is that walking fast, not running the heart-rate monitor determines whether 'exercise' is credited.

     

    George

  • by gmizzell,

    gmizzell gmizzell Sep 17, 2015 1:15 PM in response to Techlen
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    Sep 17, 2015 1:15 PM in response to Techlen

    I will be quite excited whenever the new OS is released for the watch.  From day 1 back in May I tried using it in my exercising and it was pretty much just ornamental.  I would use my workout machine for 30 minutes with about 10 different weight lifting exercises and work my pule rate up from my resting rate of around 60-65 up to 100-110.  Then I would get on my Woodway treadmill and walk at a 4.5 mile per hour rate up a 12 degree incline for 1 hour and get my heart rate  up to 155-165 and hold it for an hour.  I would have been exercising for 90 minutes and when I would check the heart rate during the exercise with the one on the Woodway they would match within 1 or 2 bpm.  Then when I would get through with the workout it would say I had burned 270 calories and the Woodway would read around 700-750.  Most other equipment I have used in various hotels and other places pretty much agreed with the Woodway and the Watch was totally ridiculous.  My son in law is an Apple developer (not with Apple) and he agreed that the software from v1 was quite primitive and that Apple had not opened up the instruments to developers to make better software.  The only thing developers could do was format the data that Apple was fetching from the instruments.  My guess is that by the time we get to this time next year the fitness software will be light years ahead of where it is now.  At least I hope so.

  • by Alexander0369,

    Alexander0369 Alexander0369 Sep 22, 2015 3:58 PM in response to malrats
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    Sep 22, 2015 3:58 PM in response to malrats

    I am having a similar problem, mine is the exercise ring goes up when I'm not doing anything at all. I really don't know how this is happening, I mean; my average heart rate is only 61, yet my exercise ring is going up. its really annoying.

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