What counts as "exercise" for the green ring??

Stair Stepper is one of 10 Workouts listed; scroll down past Outdoor Walk, Indoor Walk, Other, Indoor Cycle, Outdoor Run, Outdoor Cycle, Elliptical, Rower, ... Stair Stepper is at the bottom.

I'm a 62 yr old woman; for me 120 - to 125 bps is a 'brisk walk', yet I walked 40 minutes this morning (inside) and was credited with only 2 minutes of exercise. I did enter my age & sex, so what gives? My fitbit was always right on! The Apple exercise calculator is messed up

I don't get how this exercise ring works either...

I'm a 33yr old dog walker and obviously walk at a different rate to when I'm actually exercising so don't actually expect that to show on the ring, but Ive just done 20 mins on the treadmill and averaged 125BPM, yet not one exercise minute??? 😠

How on earth is this supposed to motivate someone to exercise more???

I've only had my watch since Thursday and understand that the watch takes time to 'learn' the users movements to gain accuracy, but this seems daft 😟

The exercise function is not working correctly. Hopefully, it will get fixed soon. Hopefully.

George

Use Other in the exercise app. It will correctly credit Move and Exercise. You won't be able to track distance, etc.

IT was announced during the WWDC keynote that this will be fixed.

I watched the keynote but don't remember anything about existing features being fixed. I'll have another look.

Regarding "learning" I haven't seen any improved tracking of Calories or other metrics over the 5 weeks I've used my Watch. The Watch learns your gait by checking against your Phone but that only takes 20 minutes. Workout data hasn't changed at all.

A Watch could learn more about an individual's heart rate range but it doesn't seem to.

I have tried a couple of Workouts again recently and the Rower Calories still far too low.

Also, the Watch is showing about 110 Resting Calories/hour, although the Health App knows my Resting Calories have been recorded as around 60/hour. The total Watch Resting Calories/day would be about 1,000 Calories more than I eat.

I bought a Watch that took Heart Rate every 10 minutes but now sometimes never takes my Heart Rate at all unless I select Workout. During a Rower Workout yesterday my Heart Rate was recorded as 200 to 213 for 6 minutes and after a gap of a couple of minutes 62. Neither was close.

There is more than Exercise that's broken.

"It will correctly credit Move and Exercise."

I don't know what you mean by "correctly." Yes, it will credit the minutes if you start and stop it promptly. But, little else, certainly not calories expended.

George

I didn't buy the watch for the "exercise ring" per se. But, I did buy it primarily for fitness and health tracking. And, these do not work as they should, including the exercise band. I didn't buy my car for its radio, but I have reason to expect it to function correctly.

I think a number people bought the watch primarily for fitness features and have been disappointed. These problems seem to be software and will be fixed soon, I hope, as an Apple Watch owner and an Apple shareholder.

George

Totally agree with what George is saying.

I bought my Apple Watch as I have a huge interest in my personal fitness whilst I'm losing weight. I also had no way of actually using the Health App without using multiple 3rd party apps to write data.

The watch is supposed to bridge that gap for me and I can honestly say it has helped, but when the Move App isn't working as well as it could be, then people are more than entitled to query when this will be dealt with.

After all, I don't just use my phone to make calls anymore, so why would I use my watch just for telling the time (especially when its been marketed so heavily for the Health and Fitness side of things)???

Thaks for that - that's useful information

Why doesn't Apple have anything to say about the problems people are having with their Watches?

They changed how the heart rate monitor works in 1.0.1 without explaining why. They haven't responded on clear bugs like BMR on the Watch ignoring BMR in the Health app. Why are the Calories in a workout so astronomically different from non-workout exercise? And why are workout Calories so far short of the work that our exercise machines have done (simply not possible)?

They must know people are wrestling with their Watches trying to get sensible, consistent results but not a word from Apple. But hey, the autumn update gives you a nightstand clock mode. Right.

I wrestled for 3 months and it went on eBay.

Before someone tells me, I know Apple don't read this. Maybe that's half the problem.

1. Apple has never engaged in general discussion about bugs, issues etc. It's no surprise that they're not making an exception for the watch. They do get engaged in discussions with beta testers and members for their various seed programmes.

2. Watch OS2 will be available in a few weeks and can be expected to include bug fixes as well as the new features that you're not interested in.

My own experience is that, by and large, the watch has done a good job in the areas discussed here. Not perfect, but I never expect perfection from software - anybody's software

None of that helps you much, especially since you've disposed of the watch.

"My own experience is that, by and large, the watch has done a good job in the areas discussed here. Not perfect, but I never expect perfection from software - anybody's software."

That says it for me as well. I am looking forward to the coming bug fixes.

George

Nick, I'm not asking for a general discussion on bugs. I'm just suggesting that early adopters - when a product is so clearly not yet ready - are beta testers. I know Apple doesn't tell us about faults or what it is doing to fix them.

I'm saying maybe they should. If I had half an idea of what they were doing I might have stayed on board.

You say some bugs will be fixed in the autumn but we don't actually know. We don't know which ones or when because Apple hasn't said a word.

I hope it works out for you but I got tired of waiting.