Strange cycling workout measurements

[chfilm]

Hey,

I started cycling recently and wanted to track my workouts. But I find the results very strange:
First of all I can bike for 25 minutes and record that as a workout, and yet still afterwards the training ring will be closed only by half, showing about 15 minutes. And secondly the calorie count seems extremely low, like 46 activity calories for 25 minutes of cycling through the city at a heart rate of 116bpm average. Then I took a break, and drove back for 28 minutes, and again, 80 calories And still the training ring shows me only 27 minutes of total activity today.
How can that be?

If I record a walk or run or yoga it works pretty well.
The most bizarre for me is how 48 minutes of training don‘t close the training ring. Any explanations?

 

[jz0309]

Hey,

I started cycling recently and wanted to track my workouts. But I find the results very strange:
First of all I can bike for 25 minutes and record that as a workout, and yet still afterwards the training ring will be closed only by half, showing about 15 minutes. And secondly the calorie count seems extremely low, like 46 activity calories for 25 minutes of cycling through the city at a heart rate of 116bpm average. Then I took a break, and drove back for 28 minutes, and again, 80 calories And still the training ring shows me only 27 minutes of total activity today.
How can that be?

If I record a walk or run or yoga it works pretty well.
The most bizarre for me is how 48 minutes of training don‘t close the training ring. Any explanations?

I have observed some oddity too, I use the "outdoor cycle" app to track my mountain biking, and while I ride for ~ 2hrs, the app only records it as ~ 100 min of exercise. I have observed that when I stop ( I take a couple of rest stops of 2-3 min each) the calorie count stops. Au contraire on the "indoor cycle" app which I use when I get on my spin bike, the app continues the calorie count ...
I suspect that the "outdoor cycle" appends to see a min speed and with mountain biking I suspect that at times of a steep climb or such the speed is too low for it record it as exercise, hence the delta between total time and actual exercise recorded, for me.
Since you mention that you're riding in the city, I don't know if you have any stops or low speed sections ...

As I said, this is my suspicion, we might need Apple to confirm this

 

[chfilm]

I have observed some oddity too, I use the "outdoor cycle" app to track my mountain biking, and while I ride for ~ 2hrs, the app only records it as ~ 100 min of exercise. I have observed that when I stop ( I take a couple of rest stops of 2-3 min each) the calorie count stops. Au contraire on the "indoor cycle" app which I use when I get on my spin bike, the app continues the calorie count ...
I suspect that the "outdoor cycle" appends to see a min speed and with mountain biking I suspect that at times of a steep climb or such the speed is too low for it record it as exercise, hence the delta between total time and actual exercise recorded, for me.
Since you mention that you're riding in the city, I don't know if you have any stops or low speed sections ...

As I said, this is my suspicion, we might need Apple to confirm this

so you say I should reach out to the support?
Of course I have some stops but not half the road consists of stops...

 

[jz0309]

so you say I should reach out to the support?
Of course I have some stops but not half the road consists of stops...

maybe try using the "indoor cycle" app for comparison and see what results your get with that.
I remember now that a year or 2 ago I accidentally chose indoor on a mtn bike ride, and I burnt about 10-15% more active calories compared to the outdoor app (pretty much the same route ridden on this). I shrugged it off at the time.

 

[Deep.sky]

After I got my watch, i started walking every day to help get back into shape, and I got fed up with the Workouts app giving me 20 minutes on my exercise ring for a 1hr brisk walk. I use the Strava app to record my workout with better accuracy, and the ring shows times similar to what I worked out for. It seems that the Workouts app has some weird algorithms for determine what qualifies as “exercise”.

 

[TheSkywalker77]

I've experienced the same thing and tried finding solutions but there doesn't seem to be any. Now I just use the "other" option when recording my bike rides. That option ALWAYS credits me correctly.

I really hope Apple can fix this soon.

 

[waw74]

I believe it might also be taking heart rate into account

on indoor cycles your legs typically "just go" at the same rate throughout.
but outdoor, you have the option to coast a bit on downhills