Active minutes too high?

[Chelseadaniels]

I received my Inspire HR a couple of days ago and today's the first day at work with it. 

Five hours into my working day at my desk job and I've clocked 57 active minutes? I looked at the times through my app, and looks like walking to the kitchen and back counted as 'vigorous' exercise? 

This can't be right. Is it because it's tracking my heart rate and general walking is 'vigorous' to me because I'm so unfit? lol Or is it actually a bug that needs to be fixed?

Please help!! 

[JohnnyRow]

"Active minutes" does not necessarily imply "vigorous".  It doesn't mean exercise workout time.

See What are active minutes?

For me, walking always qualifies as active minutes, as long as I do at least ten minutes at a time.

If you want to look at it closer, it requires 3 METs;  look at your calorie burn at night asleep on the fitbit.com dashboard graph - that is 1 MET; multiply that by 3 and that's the required calorie burn rate required to count as "active minutes".  If your heart rate stays high enough after walking, that time also will be included in active minutes.

Here is a good article about active minutes:
Everything yhou need to know about active minutes  from the 'wearable whisperer' web site.

[Emileeflynn]

I was having the same problem and my calories burned were way too high I had to turn the heart rate setting off to get it to be accurate. I’m trying to see what customer support has to say but I’m the meantime until there is a real solution if you want accurate numbers just try turning hr off

[cathy944]

How do you turn the hr off?

[JohnnyRow]

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@cathy944 wrote:

How do you turn the hr off?

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From main clock face, scroll up (swipe down) until come to Settings.  Tap Settings and look for Heart Rate.  Tap to toggle on or off.