Exercise detection is only hit and miss on my Charge 2

LadyLilion

Does anyone have any experience with the exercise detection feature? It literally works 1/2 the time or less. Sunday it logged a walk that was only incidental, not even an intentional workout. Yesterday I took a walk, 1/2 hour, nothing. Later that evening took another walk for 25 minutes: PERFECT tracking, start time and duration perfectly recorded. Today I took another 1/2 hour walk. Nada.

It's very annoying.

Francl27

My walks only register if I go fast enough for 15 minutes or more.

LadyLilion

That's not the problem. I had one walk register and another not. One was 25 minutes, one was 30. Both were inside on a track. There's no real reason for it that I can see. I'm sure I was going fast enough.

StaciMarie1974

Are you steadily walking, or starting/stopping?

Mine has been very accurate. Auto-tracking times match my actual within 30 seconds. One night last week, I ran 35 minutes on the treadmill followed by walking another 10 and it logged both. (I have the time to track set at 10 minutes minimum.)

Occasionally I'll have something show as elliptical when it was walking, but that's the only thing 'off'.

heybales

Is your HR being seen accurately?

If it doesn't go up enough along with steps it's not considered a workout yet.

Some people have problems with HR accuracy on them, usually when it goes up.

LadyLilion

I suppose the heart rate might be a problem. I'm on 3 blood pressure meds and have an arrhythmia also. My resting heart rate is about 53. Looking at it right now, it says 48. It jumps up pretty quick with movement and the arrhythmia goes away when I get the heart rate high enough (had a stress test several years ago and doc said that's good), but I have noticed that even on the elliptical, I very seldom get it high enough for cardio or peak and it takes a minute to go high enough for it to show on my activity, even when I use the button manually. So maybe that's it. I am moving continually, but until I get the heart rate to go up and stay up, it will drop down because of the skip.

Francl27

LadyLilion wrote: »

I suppose the heart rate might be a problem. I'm on 3 blood pressure meds and have an arrhythmia also. My resting heart rate is about 53. Looking at it right now, it says 48. It jumps up pretty quick with movement and the arrhythmia goes away when I get the heart rate high enough (had a stress test several years ago and doc said that's good), but I have noticed that even on the elliptical, I very seldom get it high enough for cardio or peak and it takes a minute to go high enough for it to show on my activity, even when I use the button manually. So maybe that's it. I am moving continually, but until I get the heart rate to go up and stay up, it will drop down because of the skip.

I'm guessing that's it, yeah. But it's still counting the steps and calorie burn at least. When I was shoveling snow (really ice) a few weeks back, it didn't count as exercise either, but I ended up burning over 300 calories in one hour either way.