Exercise ring isn't updating.

It's not just the exercise ring. I've written an article on my blog, discussing that, but also problems in heart rate readings, pace, and distance walked, while on a treadmill.

http://www.mcelhearn.com/how-accurate-is-the-apple-watch-as-a-fitness-tracker/

In essence, pretty much everything is wrong in the fitness tracking area.

And it also makes no logical sense to be sitting down after being active for most of an hour and to still get the "time to stand" exhortation.

I find it reasonably logical, exercise seems deemed to be above a certain rate, if for part of your exercise you fall below that rate you can't expect to be credited. On the other hand 'Other' is intended to be used in circumstances when the watch is unable to take measurements such as when you are swimming, there is no alternative but to credit you for all the time 'other' is in use because there is no way to measure this when the watch isn't being worn.

21' 19" Ml means it takes you 21 minutes nineteen seconds to do a mile on average.

swandy wrote:

That is not true Winston.....

It certainly is.

I don't rule out that heart beat doesn't have a part to play in whether exercise is credited or not, but I haven't been able to adequately check this, in order to get my heart rate above 140 on a treadmill even with my hands on the handles my wrists move quite a bit.

However, I can take the watch off my wrist (no heart rate measurement at all), set an indoor walk and shake the watch for a minute and get a minutes credit in the exercise ring, so as far as I'm concerned I don't see how you can possibly say movement doesn't give you credit.

Your blog is far from my experience.

Distance and therefore pace has been spot on, heart rate is as accurate as I can tell, we have a blood pressure/heart rate machine at home and it mirrors that within reason. When it comes to calorie burn I'm not sure what's what, I do note that most equipment disagrees with other equipment and the watch seems no different, it's generally a little higher than the calorie burn which strava gives me for bicycle ride, it's generally a little lower than starve gives me for a walk.

I concur with the HR being accurate. Ive compared it to two separate machines and they do match. Calories burned has to do with current Height and Weight as much as movement so those two fields should be set properly in the watch.

I did several workouts on my treadmill and depending where I was in the Treadmill's program, my heart ratet seemed right on with my treadmill's monitor. The distance and calories were different between the treadmill and the watch. The watch did not pick up the incline changes---although it should have seen changes based on the increased heart rate. I have a difficult time getting anything to show in the Exercise ring, which frustrates me immensely. Also, steps on the watch vs. Those on the treadmill have been consistently lower. I also have calibrated several times.

I had problems with the activity app too, but things got much better after I unpaired my watch and then paired it again. Still not sure it is completely accurate, but at least it registers activity when I'm active and not when I'm sitting still at my desk.

Not sure this would work for everyone though.

I resynced mine and it did not resolve my problems.

I To re-paired and calibrated mine again but still no joy. Outdoor walk does not updated the exercise ring even walking at almost 4 mph

Actually this isn't true for how "Other" works. You still have to wear the watch for "Other" to count. It does track HR while you're working out with it. I use it all the time for yoga and interval training, and I can see the light when it's calculating and it also gives me an average. I've heard of other people using it for weight lifting, rowing, zumba and "other" stuff that isn't walking, ruining or cycling.

You cannot use it for swimming or anything where you have to remove the watch. I'm a swimmer, and there is no way to get the watch to count a swim workout in the Activity monitor.... if/until they program he Activity monitor to grab data that gets sent to Health Kit from other apps - in the case of swimming you can use the Speedo app. The differentiator with the "other" option is that it doesn't use the GPS to attempt to use distance information in calculating your activity level. But it does monitor your HR. And now that I've been wearing the watch for a few weeks now, I am getting credit for all of my workouts that I log through Other. It's also bugging me a lot less about standing when I have been up and moving about.

I didn't actually say that you could use 'other' without wearing the watch if you check what I wrote, however you can. Why don't you check your answers before you post them, I've just checked it and that is why I know that you can use "other" without the watch being on your wrist and still clock up exercise.

None of the indoor activities and use GPS.

Thanks for the clarification about what the pace stat means. That jibes with what I had surmised.

I think you missed my point about the standing issue. What I am saying is I can be standing/walking for 55 minutes, sit down and at minute 56 (after being seated for 1 minute) still get reminded that I need to stand. No I don't. I've been standing for most of the hour.

It isn't just standing, you need to move, not just stand, if you are walking during this time it isn't detecting it for some reason, it works perfectly well for me, I only need to move for 1 minute in an hour to get a stand credit.

I have the same problems. I have had my watch for three days now. The first two days I went to Disneyland (early) and walked a circuit in both parks. Today I went to the gym before work and walked on the treadmill for 35 minutes. Each day, the watch says I completed 2 minutes of exercise. Not exactly what I thought I was paying for.

Received my Apple Watch this week. I have been riding the stationary bike for 30 minutes each night but the excursive ring would not budge. Today I used the Apple Watch Workout app. Selected Indoor Bike and hit start. When I was done I hit stop and received full exercise credit for my workout. That'll do.

As a side note the heart rate monitor displayed on the Apple Watch matched exactly to my LifeCycle's HR monitor.