My Versa tracks an exercise, but with 0 Zone Minutes

[Chridem]

Before the update, a half hour walk up to the farm behind my house would give me maybe 10-15 Active Minutes (I don't power-walk, but it's uphill), and it would track it as an exercise. 

Since the latest upgrade to my Versa, it still tracks my walks as an exercise, but with 0 Zone Minutes.

How can the Versa automatically track an exercise but then not deem it worthy of any Zone Minutes? It's quite discouraging. 

[LZeeW]

Hello @Chridem and welcome to the Help forums.  The recent firmware update replaced active minutes with active zone minutes.  The zone minute methodology uses your resting heart rate as part of the equation.  Your fat burn threshold changed because of this new method.  You can see your new heart rate zones by tapping on you zone minute icon on your phone dashboard.

[Chridem]

Thank you for your answer Laurie. If the fat burn threshold changed, does that mean that all the active minutes I got for walking since I got my first Fitbit in 2016 weren't "real" active minutes? I also don't understand why my Versa logs walks it considers too slow to add to my Minutes as "exercise". I could do a lot of walking in a week and end up with 0 Zone Minutes. That's confusing, don't you think? There's a difference between sitting on my couch and walking my dog.

[CindiLi]

Hi, yes this is a very annoying "upgrade".  Zone minutes in and of themselves are fine but the company has chosen to calculate them differently then industry standard of 70-85% of max heart rate for cardio.  Here is a thread that has a fix you can do yourself.  It worked for me and now I see appropriate zone minutes.

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Other-Versa-Smartwatches/Heart-rate-zone/m-p/4462591#M215022