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I either need intensity minutes to be daily or I need to find alternate software.

Former Member
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I think I already know the answer to this, but is there a way to make intensity minutes daily? I suppose it makes sense for someone who only works out 3-4 days per week to have a weekly goal, but I workout 6-7 days a week, and I find it completely un-motivating. Everything else is daily and I find it to be super motivating - even steps, which I don't care about at all, but I still want make that buzzer go off by the end of the day. A weekly goal would only be motivating on Day 7 (and only if I haven't reached the goal yet).

Actually, the hit-or-miss nature of registering intensity minutes makes me want to find alternative software anyway. According to Garmin, swimming is designed (ON PURPOSE) NOT to register intensity minutes. What the bleep? Bleepity bleep bleep are you bleeping kidding me! Why?!? Has anyone found a good alternate software that plays nice with Garmin and that provides the following functionality:

1. Minutes of exercise (synced from device) - daily goal intense exercise only, swimming counts
2. Calories burned (synced from device) - daily goal
3. Stair climbed (synced from device) - daily goal
4. Steps (synced from device) - daily goal
5. Sleep - sleep time, wake time, minutes of restless
6. #1-5 displayed in visually appealing dashboard

So far, the only three apps I've found that display what I want are Runtastic Me, UA Record, and FitBit - but I haven't been able to pair any of them with my device.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 8 years ago
    Yes, good advice. I guess I will contact them and find out. Hopefully the API will work and I don't have to parse the raw data files.
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  • Hopefully the API will work and I don't have to parse the raw data files.

    If you decide to go with the FIT SDK after all: the FIT files are parsed for you. You can get for example timestamps, heartrate, cadence, steps in a certain time interval, activity levels at night etc. But you will have to do all the work around it (which data to use, what to do with it, how to present it).