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Cycling doesn't count towards Intensity Minutes

Hello,

I noticed that for quite some time my Garmin 945 doesn't consider cycling towards the counted intensity minutes. As described in Garmins Helpfiles, everytime I walk for more than 10 minutes the intensity minutes are calculated. When doing a run with the built-in app, intensity minutes are also calculated.

The same should also happen when cycling. I cycle everyday to work, which is detected by MoveIQ with around 15 minutes for one way. That should count towards intensity minutes but does not at all. The same when doing a MTB workout for 2h with the built-in app. No intensity minutes at the end of the day. It seems like cycling is not considered anymore, which it should.

Does anyone else have the same problem?

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JeremyBlck over 4 years ago in reply to tess +1

tess said:
Which workaround is that?

When I get on my bike to work I start the Indoor Cycling activity and when i arrive I stop and delete that activity. Heartrate is then tracked as accurate as can be…

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0 JeremyBlck over 4 years ago in reply to tess

tess said:
Which workaround is that?

When I get on my bike to work I start the Indoor Cycling activity and when i arrive I stop and delete that activity. Heartrate is then tracked as accurate as can be with a wrist based device I think and intensity minutes are saved as they should be.

0 Flex over 4 years ago in reply to JeremyBlck

I'll try that on my way back tonight. Thanks!

0 xkarel over 4 years ago in reply to JeremyBlck

Would you have ticket number for your case? Got already one in related thread (likely sharing the same root cause with WHR not recording properly higher heart rates outside of activity)

0 tess over 4 years ago in reply to Flex

Flex said:
Are you sure this 10 minutes behaviour is also applying when recording a workout?

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/forerunner945/EN-US/GUID-63522E07-AD5E-4D2D-B680-3129A2300238.html

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/forerunner945/EN-US/GUID-02D2D4E7-4CEE-44C7-831C-2E5F58613B60.html

0 JeremyBlck over 4 years ago in reply to xkarel

xkarel said:
Would you have ticket number for your case?

Reference ID: 14950419K1

0 6811079 over 2 years ago

same issue. it shows on the garmin ap when I use strava - but not when I use the garmin device. my fix is I will stop using the device and use strava.

0 Steph over 1 year ago

I have this same problem!! The responses below are not helpful.

0 NickMN over 1 year ago

This appears to be a user or use case specific glitch... because looking at my graphs for intensity minutes, on a day I had a very easy 2hr bike ride, I still got intensity minutes. Although looking at the graph... the time is way off and data seems off altogether. I did a 15mile HARD workout saturday, it shows my IntMinutes went up at 7-9am... the run was at 11am. Sundays bike my minutes went up at 6:59am->9:59am... but I didn't leave for bike until 11:50am!?!? who knows

I know for biking a lot of metrics require longer than running to get a result (vo2max definilty comes to mind, requires 5min longer) So 15 might be just below what is needed for that type.