I try to alternate my exercise by walking one day and going to the gym the next. I start the appropriate exercise on my watch and get credit for my gym routine (green ring closes) but when I walk, the green ring doesn’t move. Why is this ?
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WALK DOESN’T COUNT AS EXERCISE ??
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How fast do you walk? It seems to need to be above a certain pace for it to count.
You’re not walking fast enough. Move ring looks for a certain elevated heart rate to count as exercise.
Just to clarify, when you are doing walks, you are selecting an outdoor (or indoor as the case may be) walk from the workouts app, correct? Every time I've done that in the past, it has counted towards my exercise goals. But if I just walk without electing it as an exercise, it is more hit & miss.
Mine (Series 2) was counting walks as long as my heart rate was above a certain level (I think 99 bpm, but not sure). Since I installed iOS11.1.2 it only counts if my heart rate is higher (have not figured out the magic number yet).
It just has to be a vigorous enough activity. I’ve put the workout app on outdoor walk, and got zero credit for a 20 minute walk. My kids are slow.
Yes, I select the outdoor walk from the workout app. I would buy the heart rate not being high enough if I wasn’t selecting the exercise and the watch “recognized” I was exercising from an elevated heart rate. When I go to the gym I get credit from the time I start the workout timer until I finish.... During my walk today my average heart rate was 109 bpm vs my resting heart rate of 55 bpm.....
I normally just use other for most exercises. If I forget to turn it off, it even counts my driving time as exercise. So heart rate isn't an issue for it. When I walk, I also use other and it always counts whatever I do.
I normally walk at an 18 min / mile pace, and most days am lucky to get 1/3 of exercise minutes to actual time. That is a 45-min walk registers from 15-20 minutes of exercise. Out on Cape Cod last summer, 6 miles with a 15-pound pack. Up and down hills, 2 miles in sand. 65 exercise minutes. If it matters, you can set exercise to "other" and it goes minute for minute, even while on the couch.
Good luck. I'm glad you posted this question as I've been wondering what it takes for the watch to count exercise myself. I've had an elevated heart rate (over 100 with up to 120) with selected exercise and nothing counted.
Probably too slow. You need to get your heart rate over 90ish to 100ish or so ( not sure exactly where the cutoff is ). I believe you need to aim for 15ish min mile walks.
My miles average about 16-18 or so and I still get credit for them every day. I have never had my watch not credit me for exercise minutes. I walk every day.
Starting a workout on the watch always moves the exercise ring for me.
Not starting a workout on the watch, but walking briskly with an elevated heart rate also moves the exercise ring for me.
Not starting a workout on the watch, but walking briskly with an elevated heart rate also moves the exercise ring for me.
I do everything as Other. Nothing counts for me any other way.
Same here. If I start a walk in the Workout app, it counts. I usually walk at 2.8 speed while having my morning protein shake and catching up on Facebook, and my heart rate doesn’t go above 100, but I get the credit for it on my rings.
I close the exercise ring almost every day but seldom bother starting a workout. I walk a fair bit in the course of the day and most days enough of it is brisk enough to count. Usually I’ll be on 30-40 minutes by the end of the day but on particularly busy days it can be twice that (or more).
I walk 1.3 miles each way to and from work. It’s up and down steep hills and I’m probably completing a mile in about 18 minutes. The hills are what get my heart rate up, and I usually end up getting about 12 to 15 minutes exercise logged for a 25 minute commute. I complete the ring on my trip home right around the time I crest the first big hill.
Just came home from a slow sunday walk: 10km in 2h 10min.
Normally this would give me no inch on the green ring..but I walked with iSmoothRun switched on..
so 130 min for the green and enough for the red.
Ridiculous..as the whole activity crap on the watch.
What to do today is to close the blue ring.
So I will "walk" every hour to the refrigerator to get a new beer.
And then: Wow..all rings closed..I´m a fitness freak.
As I said: ridiculous.
Normally this would give me no inch on the green ring..but I walked with iSmoothRun switched on..
so 130 min for the green and enough for the red.
Ridiculous..as the whole activity crap on the watch.
What to do today is to close the blue ring.
So I will "walk" every hour to the refrigerator to get a new beer.
And then: Wow..all rings closed..I´m a fitness freak.
As I said: ridiculous.
I think you might be looking at this backwards, if you close all three rings, “congratulations, you just met your minimum daily requirements”
For fitness, you’ve got to go above and beyond.
I’ll agree with ridiculous though. If I sprint a 5k, I can finish in under 24 minutes, and then still not get credit for exercise or activity on the day.
"Other" is considered the workout that is done where it cannot be measured by the watch (Not much movement, no increase in HR). Yoga is a good candidate for "Other". This is why the special achievements Apple provide will usually say "do a workout other than "Other" for ... to achieve an achievement".
You are walking too slowly. You need to be moving at at least 3mph. "Brisk walk" 17-20 minute mile is the bare minimum for it to count as a brisk walk.
Yep, walking with my wife and mother in law in the park? lol. Nope. Me walking by myself around the office? Yep, every minute is counted as exercise - but I do go pretty fast.