Exercise shortcuts not counting as active minutes?

[Pssr]

I have a new Versa and have not been using it to its full potential. Typically when I exercise, I use the Fitbit app to track going on a walk or log in a yoga session. This records my sessions in the Active Minutes and also counts as exercise. I just discovered the Exercise shortcut on the Versa instead of starting the tracking on the app, I’m starting it on my Versa. But after it’s done and I sync my Fitbit, i see the exercise under my weekly exercise but it’s not counting any active minutes, even if I did an hour long yoga session. Why does it count active minutes if I log manually through the app but not through the Versa and is there any way to fix this? I tried searching this but couldnt find any answers that helped. 

[NellyG]

Hi @Pssr

When you manually log an activity through the app, the app no longer uses data from your tracker (steps, heart rate) to calculate you stats. Active minutes and Calories burnt,  when the activity is tracked on the tracker use your heart rate as the basis for the calculation. But when you enter manually in the app population averages are used. So what you see when you manually enter is the active minutes an average person of your demographics would have. When you track on the actual tracker the active mi utes are what YOU actually did according to your heart rate data. 

So as I see if there are two possibilities here. Either the activities you are doing are not done at a high enough energy expendature to gain active minutes (see HERE for an explaination of how active minutes are calculated), or your heart rate is not being recorded accurately. So check your heart rate graph and see if it looks accurate with no gaps, and maybe up the intensity of your walk or yoga and see if you then gain some active minutes.

[Pssr]

I can understand that, but I just think it’s fruatrating that it’s not accepting my time as active minutes. If I manually log a yoga session in the app, it just automatically accepts that and gives me active minutes. So why shouldn’t it do that if I’m logging an exercise from my Versa?  I’m telling it that I’m being active. And my heart rate is recorded but I guess it isn’t high for very long periods of time. It got up to 135 during my yoga session today (but not for long, as yoga typically is less intense in the beginning and end...) so I just don’t understand why I still show 0 active minutes.