Although most of my GPS workouts are running or cycling, I sometimes like taking a brisk walk now and then (like now I'm nursing a sore knee and walking seems to hurt less). Anyway, I'm not getting any intensity minutes for the 2 walks I've taken although I'm working at about 65% of max heart rate. Does anyone know how these minutes are calculated. The "help" seems to suggest that these activities are moderate intensity. I'm fairly new to Garmin fitness stuff and the VA3.
I'll answer my own question after an email to support.
Updating Activity Class (Garmin Connect, Settings, User Settings) to the value it should have been (from 0 to 5) the Intensity Minutes appear to work as expected especially for moderate intensity (for me anyway, YMMV). As best I can tell Activity Class is not documented in the Vivoactive 3 user manual and not very well in Garmin Connect app.
Hey, thanks for posting your answer - it's appreciated instead of the "Nevermind, fixed it" answers you can get. Anyway, for anyone else following, I found this help page describing the detail of this setting. Hope this helps...
Will try this - I've just got back from a 2 mile, 30 minute brisk walk, partly uphill, and showing an average heart rate of 107 bpm (against a resting heart rate of 58 bpm - number of intensity minutes registers? 0.
