Active Mintues vs Exercise Minutes

[Rolfessenden]

I understand the difference between exercise minutes and active minutes. The difference is that active minutes actually set a higher standard for what to include. Therefore, Active minutes should normally be less than exercise minutes.

But they are not.

Today, for example, I have 60 active minutes, but only 39 exercise minutes.

I don’t set any parameters myself, all decisions are being made by my Fitbit Versa. 

But they don’t make any sense to me.

[JohnnyRow]

Check your SmartTrack minimum time settings.  Click exercise days icon on phone app, then gear icon near top right.  That will show the minimum amount of each activity to be considered a workout.  For instance, if walk time is set to 15 minutes (I think the default), then you could walk for 13 minutes, get 13 "active  minutes", but no workout minutes.

You can set the times for 10 to 90 minutes.

[Rolfessenden]

Ok, thanks. The overall system is too obtuse. I would like to set some goals, but it’s hard to set goals using the watch as a monitoring device, when the metric is sort of a black box.

Rol