Intensity Minutes Recording When Just Walking?

It seems that as of about a week and a half ago, my Fenix 5S randomly started recording Intensity Minutes during just normal, relaxed walking. My heart rate stats don't look at all unusual when reviewing the time frames prior to the intensity minutes log

I don't believe this change in behavior is due to a software upgrade because I think it was doing this a week when I was on (beta) firmware 6.83 and has continued this week after being upgraded to 7.0.

Has anyone else come across this type of issue where Intensity Minutes are getting logged way too easily without actually exercising? And if so, is there any way to fix this?

0 W1zzard over 7 years ago

I'm seeing the same thing on my Fenix 5S. I'm not exactly sure how the watch determines the intervals that are considered "Intense".
But, to be honest, it doesn't really bother me.

0 MiHighGator over 7 years ago

What's odd is that this never occurred before. Prior to a couple weeks ago, Intensity Minutes logged how I assume they were supposed to - only when I had sustained activity in a heart rate zone (either at least zone 1 or 2, and higher). Now I'm getting Intensity Minutes for calmly walking though an airport or at the mall doing Christmas shopping.

0 mcbadger over 7 years ago

Over the last few versions, including betas, I've found this has been changing in both ways; before 6.something my daily 30 minute brisk walks to work tended to log about 25 intensity minutes. Suddenly that stopped completely, came back around 6.8-something, and with 7.0 started logging even more IMs. I'd prefer consistency...

0 MiHighGator over 7 years ago

Interesting. I wonder if this is a bug, a hardware defect in my unit, or if this is how Garmin actually intends IMs to work going forward via software coding? Is anyone else seeing this type of activity following recent updates?