Walk Didn't Register This Morning?

Short version: walk faster :)

Let me try to break this down.

You started the 'workout' at 6:55am and ended it at 7:49am, for a 'workout period' of 54 minutes. Got that.

However, that does not indicate 54 minutes of exercise. You have to move above a certain pace in order for the period to count.

In this case, your average pace was 21:36 minutes per mile (54 minutes / 2.5 miles).

You need to move at a pace of about 18:30 minutes per mile in order to count as 'exercise' on the Fitness rings.

If you're walking the dog and she's stopping to sniff at every other lamppost, that will drag down your average pace.

If you stop to talk to the neighbors, that will drag down your pace.

So, in short, there is a difference between just 'walking' and 'walking for exercise'.

In this case, of your 54 minutes total 'outside time' you were only walking above the 'exercise' threshold for 20 minutes of that time, hence the ring didn't yet close.

You have to consider that the goal of the rings is to encourage people to push a little further, after all if you can close your move ring by sitting on the couch all day, then what value is it adding?

That said, everyone's levels are different based on many variables - age, gender, physical (dis)abilities, etc. and one size does not fit all.

To that end, you are able to customize the goals. If you feel that you got a decent workout on your walk and that 20 minutes is a good goal for you, then set your exercise goal to 20 minutes instead of 30.

You still have the satisfaction of closing (or doubling) your rings most days, but also have the ability to go further when you feel up to it.

In the Fitness app on the watch, just scroll down past the stats and tap the 'Change Goals' button. You can set individual goals for calories burned, exercise minutes, and stand hours.

This only makes partial sense because if I’m using the workout app for exercise it should count regardless of what pace/threshold I’m at. Because if I want to walk a long distance at a slower pace that is still considered working out even if I’m not meeting the threshold that they want me to meet. For instance, I walked today for 2 1/2 hours which was 7 1/2 miles but my watch only counted 42 minutes. I think Apple needs to go back and reconfigure that again, it’s only been an issue for the past few months with the new update.