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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jun 23, 2020 23:03:37 GMT
I use my Apple Watch to track my activity and am in a challenge. The more exercise minutes I have and the more calories burned from activity, the more points (along with stand hours and how the team does overall for the day). I primarily use the peloton app, which syncs with the watch/phone. When I go for walks outside I start an outdoor walk. I recently added barre 3 workouts online. I’ve been starting the activity on my watch when I start the video but the watch is not giving me credit for the whole time. For example, I did a 60 min barre3 class and it has me at 34 min of exercise. Is that because my heart rate wasn’t high enough for the other part of the workout? Or some other reason? Is there any way to have this accurately measure how long the workout is? It does this with walks as well but with the peloton app it measures the whole workout.
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Post by elaine on Jun 23, 2020 23:21:40 GMT
Yes, your heart rate has to get up to a certain rate to have the minutes counted as exercise. I walk the dogs for 45 minutes (2 miles) in the morning, and run the “outdoor walk” program/tracker, but often only get credit for 15-20 minutes of exercise in my health/activity program/green ring.
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Post by ~summer~ on Jun 23, 2020 23:24:33 GMT
I’m new to my Apple Watch and one thing that frustrates me is it seems I can go for a 2 hour run/jog and it will only close 1 circle which seems odd
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Post by tommygirl on Jun 23, 2020 23:42:21 GMT
I’m new to my Apple Watch and one thing that fru The 3 circles are each for different things. One is for activity (you can set that to be as high or low as you like), one circle is for exercise (this is probably the one you are closing after exercising), and one circle is for standing (you need to stand every hour to close that one). Congrats on your new apple watch! I love mine! I have never noticed the time thing being off but I have noticed that my dh and I can go on an outdoor walk wearing our apple watches and he will get different results than I do. Maybe it has to do with heart rate as someone mentioned above. |
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Post by ~summer~ on Jun 23, 2020 23:45:06 GMT
I’m new to my Apple Watch and one thing that fru The 3 circles are each for different things. One is for activity (you can set that to be as high or low as you like), one circle is for exercise (this is probably the one you are closing after exercising), and one circle is for standing (you need to stand every hour to close that one). Congrats on your new apple watch! I love mine! I have never noticed the time thing being off but I have noticed that my dh and I can go on an outdoor walk wearing our apple watches and he will get different results than I do. Maybe it has to do with heart rate as someone mentioned above. hi - yes I know they are different things - I guess I would think if you go for a 2 hour run (or a 4 hour hike) it would close both your activity and exercise circles - shouldn’t it? I know I can customize my goals I guess I should haha. The circle I have hardest times closing is the stand circle... And yes I love my Apple Watch - don’t know what took me so long!  |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jun 23, 2020 23:48:06 GMT
The 3 circles are each for different things. One is for activity (you can set that to be as high or low as you like), one circle is for exercise (this is probably the one you are closing after exercising), and one circle is for standing (you need to stand every hour to close that one). Congrats on your new apple watch! I love mine! I have never noticed the time thing being off but I have noticed that my dh and I can go on an outdoor walk wearing our apple watches and he will get different results than I do. Maybe it has to do with heart rate as someone mentioned above. hi - yes I know they are different things - I guess I would think if you go for a 2 hour run (or a 4 hour hike) it would close both your activity and exercise circles - shouldn’t it? I know I can customize my goals I guess I should haha. The circle I have hardest times closing is the stand circle... And yes I love my Apple Watch - don’t know what took me so long! I would think you would close two rings if you are working hard enough, depending on your settings. I think my settings were standard but I’m not sure. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jun 23, 2020 23:48:26 GMT
Yes, your heart rate has to get up to a certain rate to have the minutes counted as exercise. I walk the dogs for 45 minutes (2 miles) in the morning, and run the “outdoor walk” program/tracker, but often only get credit for 15-20 minutes of exercise in my health/activity program/green ring. Do you know what the heart needs to be at for it to count as exercise? I did the 60 min workout earlier, a 10 min arms workout and now a 45 min walk and it days I have done 65 min of exercise. |
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Post by heather on Jun 23, 2020 23:57:25 GMT
If you look at the Apple forums, it seems you have to frequently recalibrate your watch to get exercises to count accurately. So it’s not just a heart rate issue. It’s been a known bug for years.
Outdoors walk is the worst for me. I live near a nature center and hike up and down hills and cross streams and can be out of breath and drenched in sweat and only 15 minutes count. It gets better if I recalibrate frequently but I just started cheating instead. Lol
When I go on hikes, or other exercise that I know won’t count, I choose Mind & Body instead. It’s not really cheating, right? Exercise is good for mind and body. That’s my rationalization.
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Post by paget on Jun 23, 2020 23:58:43 GMT
iamkristinl16, I’m thinking of getting an apple watch. Does it automatically know What peloton workouts I’m doing or do I have to select the workouts using the watch?
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Post by busy on Jun 24, 2020 0:03:53 GMT
The 3 circles are each for different things. One is for activity (you can set that to be as high or low as you like), one circle is for exercise (this is probably the one you are closing after exercising), and one circle is for standing (you need to stand every hour to close that one). Congrats on your new apple watch! I love mine! I have never noticed the time thing being off but I have noticed that my dh and I can go on an outdoor walk wearing our apple watches and he will get different results than I do. Maybe it has to do with heart rate as someone mentioned above. hi - yes I know they are different things - I guess I would think if you go for a 2 hour run (or a 4 hour hike) it would close both your activity and exercise circles - shouldn’t it? I know I can customize my goals I guess I should haha. The circle I have hardest times closing is the stand circle... And yes I love my Apple Watch - don’t know what took me so long! It depends on what you have your move (calories burned) goal set at... 2 hour run may or may not hit it. Sounds like you probably have it set fairly high. As far as the OP, if you are starting a workout in the Workout app, all minutes should count toward your Exercise ring, regardless of what your heart rate is during those minutes. The Peloton app works the same... and that's how all apps *should* work for fitness tracking, but not all do (assuming it's a problem in the developer's understanding of how to interface with Activity or WatchKit). Your heart rate only comes into it for non-tracked-workout exercise. Then you're only given credit for activity where your heart rate is into zone 1 or above. |
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Post by CeeScraps on Jun 24, 2020 0:08:24 GMT
You can get an exercise strap that will measure your heart rate better than the watch. It syncs with the watch so it will record off of that instead of your wrist.
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Post by elaine on Jun 24, 2020 0:09:54 GMT
hi - yes I know they are different things - I guess I would think if you go for a 2 hour run (or a 4 hour hike) it would close both your activity and exercise circles - shouldn’t it? I know I can customize my goals I guess I should haha. The circle I have hardest times closing is the stand circle... And yes I love my Apple Watch - don’t know what took me so long! It depends on what you have your move (calories burned) goal set at... 2 hour run may or may not hit it. Sounds like you probably have it set fairly high. As far as the OP, if you are starting a workout in the Workout app, all minutes should count toward your Exercise ring, regardless of what your heart rate is during those minutes. The Peloton app works the same... and that's how all apps *should* work for fitness tracking, but not all do (assuming it's a problem in the developer's understanding of how to interface with Activity or WatchKit). Your heart rate only comes into it for non-tracked-workout exercise. Then you're only given credit for activity where your heart rate is into zone 1 or above. I never get full exercise minutes for “outdoor walk” or “yoga” started and tracked within my workout app. Never have. |
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Post by busy on Jun 24, 2020 1:49:06 GMT
It depends on what you have your move (calories burned) goal set at... 2 hour run may or may not hit it. Sounds like you probably have it set fairly high. As far as the OP, if you are starting a workout in the Workout app, all minutes should count toward your Exercise ring, regardless of what your heart rate is during those minutes. The Peloton app works the same... and that's how all apps *should* work for fitness tracking, but not all do (assuming it's a problem in the developer's understanding of how to interface with Activity or WatchKit). Your heart rate only comes into it for non-tracked-workout exercise. Then you're only given credit for activity where your heart rate is into zone 1 or above. I never get full exercise minutes for “outdoor walk” or “yoga” started and tracked within my workout app. Never have. Hmmm. That’s not how it’s supposed to work. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 1:55:58 GMT
Apple Watch is "weird" in how it calculates walks - either indoor or outdoor. Walkers do not get full credit for time exercised. Credit is given only when the heart rate reaches what Apple feels is the right zone and totally ignores time and steps. There are multiple posts on the Apple community forums of users complaining that they are not getting exercise credit for their walks and Apple has been silent. This has been happening since the Apple Watch V2.
On my last four walks I wore my Apple Watch V4 plus a separate heart monitor. The heart monitor shows a different (higher) reading than what my Apple Watch V4 shows. I am going to start logging my walks as other exercises until I can find one that is more equal to the heart monitor.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jun 24, 2020 2:18:41 GMT
busy how do you recalibrate your watch? I do use the workout app. When I did the Barre3 workout I chose HIIT because I didn't scroll all the way through. But maybe I should choose yoga instead and then the HR threshold might be lower?
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Post by busy on Jun 24, 2020 2:24:16 GMT
busy how do you recalibrate your watch? I do use the workout app. When I did the Barre3 workout I chose HIIT because I didn't scroll all the way through. But maybe I should choose yoga instead and then the HR threshold might be lower? There's a Barre option in Workouts Here are instructions for calibrating your watch support.apple.com/en-us/HT204516 |
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Post by busy on Jun 24, 2020 2:30:03 GMT
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Post by monklady123 on Jun 24, 2020 9:59:19 GMT
My Apple watch tracks "exercise" if I walk briskly. When I stroll with my dog I only get exercise minutes when I come up the big hill near my house. To me this makes sense....I look at "exercise" different from "moving" (not to be confused with the "move" ring...I know that means "get up and walk around for a couple of minutes every hour"). Last night I went on a quick 15-minute walk, really brisk, and got 15 minutes of exercise on my watch. But when I take my dog for a walk I usually only get 5-10 minutes of exercise for a 30-minute walk, depending on how much sniffing she does.  This makes total sense to me. Obviously taking a casual walk with my dog is better than sitting in my chair all morning, but it still isn't "exercise" in the sense of achieving that target heart rate that we're supposed to aim for, for aerobic fitness. |
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Post by JustTricia on Jun 24, 2020 11:08:15 GMT
I always go in to the Health app and redo my outdoor walks through exercise to make them show all the minutes. That’s the only thing I really dislike about the watch; if I choose an exercise through their app it should count as exercise!
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Post by needmysanity on Jun 24, 2020 15:35:13 GMT
I have found using OTHER captures all exercise and gives you credit even if you aren't getting your heart rate totally up. For instance - last week we went hiking. It was more of a leisurely stroll but the first half I had it on hiking and it only gave me 15 minutes credit (for a 45 min walk). On the way back I set it to OTHER and got full credit.
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Post by elaine on Jun 24, 2020 16:14:40 GMT
I just got back from a 2 mile walk with the dogs with Outdoor Walk on for tracking on my Apple Watch 5. The walk was 45 minutes in length, but I only got 18 minutes worth of exercise credit. For me, it doesn’t matter much, as I am viewing the exercise ring as “heart rate above a certain level” ring. I walk the dogs 3-4 miles every single day, so I know that I am walking 1 - 2 hours every day and don’t need the watch to track that. The heart rate is a good reminder for me to exercise hard enough to get it up.
Here are the screen shots from my phone regarding the watch activity:
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This makes total sense to me. Obviously taking a casual walk with my dog is better than sitting in my chair all morning, but it still isn't "exercise" in the sense of achieving that target heart rate that we're supposed to aim for, for aerobic fitness.
