How does Inspire 3 detect different activities

[nms1]

Every time I wear my Inspire 3 for a workout in our gym, it picks it up as a 'swim'. Any idea why?

The attached was a 50 min strength circuit 

 

[LZeeW · Accepted solution]

@nms1   All Fitbits have an accelerometer that detects and analyzes motion patterns.  The accelerometer sees what it sees.  So your motion patterns look more like swimming than anything else.  You can turn off swimming from your list of auto recognized activities.  Please do the following:

• Tap on your profile picture
• Tap on Activity & Wellness
• Tap on Exercise
• Choose Swimming on the list and toggle it to the Off position

Your Inspire 3 might recognize it as Aerobic Workout or Sport.  That really doesn't matter.  The important thing is that swimming turns off the heart rate monitor.  Your Fitbit doesn't calculate or award active zone minutes when the heart rate monitor is off.

[nms1]

Thank you