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Activity vs exercise

‎03-26-2018 21:24

‎03-26-2018 21:24

I am trying to understand the activity part. If I need my active minutes to be logged as exercise I would need to manually add this? 

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‎03-26-2018 21:57

‎03-26-2018 21:57

For active minutes, whatever you are doing needs to be intense enough:

 

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1379

 

You can earn active minutes one minute at a time. You don’t need to log your activity as exercises in order to earn active minutes.

 

For exercises (e.g. exercises that count towards the weekly exercise goal), their duration needs to be 15 minutes for them to be autodetected by the SmartTrack feature:

 

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1785

 

If exercises are logged manually, their duration can be shorter.

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