iPhone app reports 2 different values for active minutes

[Rolfessenden]

If I click on the weekly exercise button, and look at the weekly bar graph, it reports I had 4.5 active hours last week.

If I click on the Minutes button (In Today), and add up the active minutes it shows for last week, I get 6.43 active hours. 

Last Sunday, to pick one day, shows 60 active minutes when I look at it through the active minutes list, but the weekly button shows 32 active minutes.

I have a goal of 200 active hours this year, and I don’t know which set of numbers to believe.

[JohnnyRow]

On the weekly bar graph where you 4.5 hours last week, are you sure it is "active minutes"?  Does it actually use that exact term, or does it say "exercise".

"Exercise" and "active minutes" are different things, which I won't bother to go into unless I find out that is the issue here.

[Rolfessenden]

The weekly exercise statistic is called simply exercise. The minutes number is called active minutes. I have not found anything describing the difference.

Rol

[JohnnyRow]

See What are active minutes?

For "active minutes" you need to reach a certain intensity level and maintain it for at least ten minutes.

You can get "exercise" by 2 methods:

1.  Your activity gets auto-recognized by the tracker and continues the length of time prescribed for that activity.

2.  You use the exercise app, manually starting and stopping the exercise session.  For that, any time between when you start and stop the session is "exercise" just because you say it is.

[Rolfessenden]

So “active minutes” has a consistent meaning that is the same for every individual, but “exercise” does not. Is that it?

For the record, I never actually enter anything, I simply let the Fitbit versa figure it out. somehow it decides what to call exercise by itself, and it calculates something else, that it calls active minutes. Seems confusing and ambiguous. Still uncertain what to use as a basis for understanding my exercise.