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First thing in the morning, I did an "OPEN" session of "indoor cycling" for 39 minutes, and while both time and calories burned shows in the Exercise app, in the Activity app, my calories burned are counted under "Move", but under "Exercise" did not count the time, still showing 0.
Is anyone else seeing this, or was it a fluke for me?
You must be right. 75 minutes walking through DFW airport with a 25 lb backpack on and a trumpet bag in hand only got me 18 minutes total exercise credit, although the full time is shown for the workout. I'll test the theory soon.
This happened to me for the first time with my 6 month old Apple Watch series one today. My hour & half outdoor walk only registered as 22 minutes in the exercise ring...it was very cold and icy and my gait was cautious at times with the ice so maybe that's why??
I had a similar experience yesterday. I walked for almost an hour over lunch, but I didn't receive any exercise minutes credits. I did receive calories used credits. Perhaps walking is not considered a strenuous enough exercise to qualify?
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I've heard that the 'Exercise' ring only increases if you hit a percentage of your maximum BPM. For me, if I don't get a heart rate of 135 or more BPM, it doesn't seem to count. Workout activities don't seem to count either unless your heart rate reaches the target,
Max BPM = 220 - Age
Target Range = Max BPM * (0.70 to 0.85)
Same issue here:
Workout not registered in Activity?
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BUG: Exercise app time not showing in Activity app
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I don't think the BPM correlation is correct, otherwise mine should still be a 0. I know that the first day I had the watch, I met my activity goal mostly with a long dog walk, nothing that would have gotten my heart rate up that high for an extended period of time.
Ah, the joys of being an early adopter!
Exercise in the activity app is only credited with movement of the wrist, this means you invariably receive no credit for the treadmill or a static cycle machine. Setting up a cycle or indoor walk activity in the workout app won't help, the only activity in the workout app that will give you a credit in the activity app if you don't move your wrist is 'other'.
How much "movement" is required? Will attaching my watch to an ankle make it count, or is it more geographical distance covered? Although attaching to ankle will kill BPM measurement.
If for example you swing your arm whilst on the treadmill just as you do when walking for real, it will credit you time, please don't do this though it isn't safe, use the 'Other' activity in 'Workout'.
Are you sure about that? I don't know if I swing my arms or not, but the treadmill (when set to 'indoor walk' in the workout app) and the watch registered the exact same distance travelled ?
(and my wife showed distance in her 'workout' - but none of that hit the exercise ring)
How is it calculating speed (pace) and distance - but not registering it as exercise?
I just got my WATCH this afternoon and got it setup.
I went for an Outdoor Walk - and it seemed to count every minute of my walk.
For reference - I walked 2 miles in 30 minutes (so a 4 MPH walk).
It might be interesting to do some testing on a treadmill to see what paces are recorded as "exercise" ...
I actually went for a morning jog with my Apple watch for the first time and it recorded the activity accurately. I also had another app on my iPhone at the same time. Except for the calories count, everything else was accurate. Will test it further when i go cycling tomorrow and see how accurate the activity stats are.
I'm not getting credit for any exercise in the activity app. This is my 5th day of trying to get more than 4 minutes to show up and I have had no success. I just walked briskly (what the app supposedly registers along with dancing and playing with the kids) around my house for 20 min and I didn't get a single minute. I also turned on the workout app on the treadmill at the gym on my last 3 outings and it's underestimating distance by 50% and calories are about 1/3 of what is shown on the treadmill. I expected that exercise registered in the workout app would transfer over to the activity app but it does not. Very disappointing.
I'm starting to think that for walking, it's based on pace - not HR.
Anything over 3mph seems to count in the 'exercise' ring, anything under (no matter what your HR is) doesn't. That's my latest hypothesis.
As John-75 pointed out above, I suspect that the trigger for registering exercise for walking and running is pace. It might help to diagnose the problem if you can post your workout results - look up the workout on your iPhone and post avg pace and avg heart rate.
Yesterday, I did a 3 mile walk at an avg pace of 15'41" with an avg heart rate of 124BPM - it recorded every second of my walk as exercise. For this walk, I used the Workout app, and told it I was going to go for a 3 mile walk.
But throughout the day it did measure other movement as exercise. I noticed that running in and out of a grocery store and IKEA both registered about 10 minutes of exercise - I obviously did not launch the workout app to tell it I was going to walk into a store. Likewise, mowing the lawn yesterday afternoon registered a little over an hour in Exercise and considerable calories in Move - again I did not launch Workout app before mowing the lawn, it just recorded that activity in Activity app.
For the day yesterday, I finished with 1556 in the Move ring, 92 in the Exercise ring and 16/12 in the Stand ring. My WATCH appears to be recording everything I'm doing.
BUG: Exercise app time not showing in Activity app
