Discrepancy between Exercise time and heart rate zones

[JMcBeanerer]

versa 2 - 

when I walk or run, I select the exercise and wait till it connects then begin, and I stop the exercise as soon as I’m done— that is to say I don’t use auto recognize. I have noticed that when I add up my heart rate zones, it is more time than my total exercise.

it only bothers me because I’m linked to a third party app (GetHealthie) and when they sync, the GetHeahie app is showing my time as if it added up all heart rate minutes. Which is fine except It’s not accurate to how much I exercised nor what my times are for various runs.

Example:

walk

Duration: 1 hr 10min (70 min)

2 min cardio, 34 min fat burn, 44 min below (80 min total)

[MrMarv · Accepted solution]

@JMcBeanerer --

Did you pause the Walk app at any time?

The zone totals reflect "end time" minus "start time" - including any pauses. whereas the duration only includes time spent not "paused" during that same period.

The numbers you shared lead me to believe you paused for a total of approximately 10 minutes.

I have paused the treadmill exercise app on occasion to take an Amazon delivery and get two or three "extra" minutes in the zone totals.

One gentlemen on another thread used the walk app from and to work and paused during working hours and had outrageous time in zone numbers, as you would expect.

Good luck and welcome to the boards.

[JMcBeanerer]

Yes, I never thought of that! I assumed that pausing the workout paused all data collection but that makes a ton of sense. 10 minute snack break for the kiddos, mystery solved. Thank you!