help menu

Join us on the Community Forums!

  • Community Guidelines

    The Fitbit Community is a gathering place for real people who wish to exchange ideas, solutions, tips, techniques, and insight about the Fitbit products and services they love. By joining our Community, you agree to uphold these guidelines, so please take a moment to look them over.

  • Learn the Basics

    Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page for information on Community features, and tips to make the most of your time here.

  • Join the Community!

    Join an existing conversation, or start a new thread to ask your question. Creating your account is completely free, and takes about a minute.

Not finding your answer on the Community Forums?

Cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Understanding Zone Minutes

Replies are disabled for this topic. Start a new one or visit our Help Center.

‎11-24-2022 18:16

‎11-24-2022 18:16

In the morning I walk 4.2 km to work.

In the afternoon I walk 4.2 km home.

Exact same route. Duration is very similar but varies by a few minutes due to conditions. Time, heart rate and calories are very close to each other. All that is exactly as I expect it to me. Logical 

 

Morning walk gets me 40 zone minutes. Give or take a couple.

 

My afternoon walk gets me 4, or 2, or 10, or 20, or 40. Completely random.

 

Help me understand this.

 

Best Answer
0 Votes
2 REPLIES 2

‎11-24-2022 19:32 - edited ‎11-24-2022 19:34

‎11-24-2022 19:32 - edited ‎11-24-2022 19:34

Tap Zone Minutes circle on phone app to see bottom limit for fat burn zone.  Your heart rate is probably right near that cutoff point.  Maybe pushing a bit more to get to work on time and relaxing a bit on way home.  Check your heart rate graph.

Your heart rate can vary just by a couple of BPM making the difference between the zone or not if right at the boundary.  I expect if pushed just a bit more on way home, would get 40 minutes then too.

Or maybe walk to work is slightly uphill making you work just a bit harder.

Before posting, re-read to see if it would make sense to someone else not looking at your Fitbit or phone.

Best Answer

‎11-24-2022 19:50

In response to JohnnyRow

‎11-24-2022 19:50

Thanks!

To me, the walks "feel" the same. Certainly not an intentional effort change on my part. I feel the same before, during and after. Only real difference is audio. Music in morning and audiobook/podcast in the afternoon.

 

Heart rate does appear to be different when digging in deeper though.

Morning avg is 110.

Afternoon avg is 101.

Morning max is 140.

Afternoon max is 111.

 

Weird.

Best Answer