Q: BUG: Indoor Walk does not record exercise properly
This bug concerns the Workout app. There are two problems:
- The Indoor Walk function consistently grossly underestimates both the distance and the calories burned when I use it on a treadmill. The distances and calories are a little less than half of the values given by the treadmill itself. In addition I have checked this by wearing a chest strap type heart rate monitor and an iPhone app called Digifit. The calories from Digifit are consistent generally (+/- 15%) with the treadmill itself, but again are more than double the value given by Indoor Walk.
- Indoor Walk also fails to sync with the Activity app. That is, when I do 30 minutes on the treadmill the Activity app does not record this as exercise. Other Workout functions (Elliptical, Indoor Cycle and Other) all register properly with Activity. Even when I increase the intensity on the treadmill to a heart rate of 125 to 130 bpm it still does not register as exercise. Indoor Cycle, at 115 bpm, does register.
Please note that I understand how to calibrate the watch by using it together with the iPhone on an outdoor walk or run. I have done this perhaps ten or so times so far the watch records exercise perfectly o\when used outdoors. However none of this has improved the accuracy of my indoor runs.
Posted on Jun 1, 2015 10:55 AM
by Wishfullracer,Solvedanswer
iPod
I gave up trying to get the exercise ring to work with the walk options. Now I just choose the "other" option, for now, that works for me.
Posted on Jul 1, 2015 6:34 AM