No Active Minutes when Swimming

[Sara_B]

Hi All 🙂

Got my Fitbit Flex 2 a few days ago. The steps are pretty accurate against my Apple Watch so chuffed with that. I did have to turn off auto-recognise for my walks as it was giving me double activity points on Weight Watchers 😞

However I went for a swim last night my Fitbit did recognise the swim and gave me the correct time and lengths swam however it did not give me any active minutes. I did 42 minutes and swam 32 lengths. 

Do you think I'm not working hard enough for active minutes or is there a glitch?

Thanks 🙂

[kawaiiko]

Check your activities and select the Swim workout you did. 

What does it state on your dashboard?

The below screen shots are based on a quick snorkel I did a few months back.  

It says I added 7 active minutes.  Not sure if it's accurate...I was on vacation during this time and didn't pay attention to how much time i was actually swimming.  

[Swimmercycler]

Hi sara_b, I have the exact same problem. My flex 2 captured my swim with no problem. It even recorded 49 lengths, which isn't bad - I actually did 46. However, it shows no active minutes. Really irritating! 

[NellyG]

It could be your swim wasnt 'active' enough to gain active minutes which are cal ulated on the intensity of the exercise, not just the exercise done.

Active Minutes

[Swimmercycler]

 Thanks for the reply, NellyG 🙂

Actually, when I resynch'ed again later, the active minutes were recognised. I don't understand why the swim was captured but the active minutes didn't show, initially, but at least it got there in the end.

[NellyG]

@Swimmercycler some aspects of Fitbits are a mystery to me as well! 🤣

[SwimmerHinkson]

Have you got a solution to this? I have the same issue. 

I did a 55 minutes swim this morning and YES it WAS active!!!! The distance tracked was pretty accurate, but it gave me 0 active minutes! Very frustrating since my daily goal is set to active minutes not to steps. 

Help!