Single metric to track exercise / activity?

Hello

I hope someone can offer some advice for my long question here. I have been a happy owner of the original Instinct and am considering upgrading to a Crossover.

I exercise ~5 times per week but am not training for any particular goal / race but just to stay fit and maintain a healthy weight (and so I can enjoy a pint & curry!).

I run outdoors, use an indoor rower and indoor bike – all of which are supported activities on the Crossover.

My question: is there a metric that I can use to track that I have been active each day similar to the Apple Watch Movement & Exercise rings? I currently try and maintain an average of 11K steps per day but this is annoying as even if I have done a 10 mile row I still have to walk around for ages to keep my step count up.

A few years ago my work took part in the Virgin Global Health initiative – this had a system were it supported a ton of different exercises which all got converted to steps when you logged the duration. So you would log a 30 min boxing session, or 1h SUP etc. etc. and they all got converted to steps and these were used for the competition.

I’m after one or two metrics I can use to track that I have been active and done exercise, that I can trend over time to maintain a good level. Does such a thing exist on this or any other Garmin watch?

Many thanks

0 Dr Phil over 2 years ago

Intensity minutes might be a good option. It will track your activity sessions based on moderate and vigorous heart rate levels.
Garmin Intensity Minutes

0 9820003 over 2 years ago

used to own Polar where all sort of activity was converted to daily activityevel expressed as percentage vs set target. Still missing it badly with Garmin. the closest to track your daily activity level would be either active calories (there are watchfaces in IQ store displaying it) or you can set goal for any activity related calories / track those in reports in GC web (this is only on web)

0 trux over 2 years ago

jebrobinson said:
I’m after one or two metrics I can use to track that I have been active and done exercise, that I can trend over time to maintain a good level. Does such a thing exist on this or any other Garmin watch?

Besides the Intensity Minutes, there are also some other reports that may be useful for following your progress

And then also reports on your Resting HR, VO₂max, Lactate Threshold, or taking the Recovery HR at the end of activities will show how your fitness evolves.