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What are Active Minutes and How Do I Earn Them?

Learn what active minutes are, how they're tracked in Stridekick, and how different devices count them.

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🕐 What Are Active Minutes?

Active minutes measure how much time you spend doing moderate to intense physical activity.

Think: fast walking, running, dancing—anything that gets your heart rate up or your body moving with effort.

⚠️ Not all movement counts! A slow walk or gentle stroll may not be intense enough to be recorded by your device.


📍Where to Find Active Minutes in Stridekick

Your synced active minutes will show:

  • On your Dashboard, under Your Activity

  • In your Profile tab > Activity (for weekly, monthly, and yearly trends)

Swipe left to view your past daily totals.


🧠 How to Earn Active Minutes by Device

Each device tracks active time differently. See how yours works below:

Device

Syncs Active Minutes?

Notes

iPhone / Apple Health

Does not track active minutes. Use manual logging instead.

Apple Watch

Syncs Exercise Minutes from the Activity app

Google Health Connect

Syncs Move Minutes

Fitbit

Syncs Active Minutes (not Active Zone Minutes)

Garmin

Syncs Intensity Minutes (vigorous minutes not doubled)

Withings

Syncs active minutes tracked in the Health Mate app


🔍 Details by Device

🍎 iPhone (Apple Health)

❌ Doesn’t record active minute data.
If you use only your iPhone (no Apple Watch), you’ll need to log active time manually.


⌚ Apple Watch

✅ Syncs Exercise Minutes
Make sure your Apple Health app shows Exercise Minutes under:
Health App > Summary > Show All Health Data > Exercise Minutes

📌 Note: Stridekick does not sync “Workouts” from Apple.


🤖 Google Health Connect

✅ Syncs Move Minutes


Your Move Minutes must appear in the Google Health Connect app to sync properly to Stridekick.


⌚ Fitbit

✅ Syncs Active Minutes
Stridekick only pulls Active Minutes—not Active Zone Minutes, which may look different in your Fitbit app.

Depending on the Fitbit device you use, your Fitbit app may display Active Zone Minutes instead of active minutes, which means you might see a different total in your Fitbit app than what syncs to Stridekick.

If your Fitbit device tracks Active Zone Minutes, then you should be able to log in at https://accounts.fitbit.com/login (the website, not the app) to view your active minutes recorded by your Fitbit. Here's an example of what you should see:

🧠 What’s the difference?

  • Active Minutes = 10+ minutes of moderate-to-intense activity

  • Zone Minutes = Time spent in heart-rate zones


🏃 Garmin

✅ Syncs Intensity Minutes
These are recorded in your Garmin app and pulled into Stridekick.

⚠️ Garmin multiplies vigorous minutes by 2—but Stridekick does not. This means your totals in Stridekick may appear lower than in Garmin if you’re doing vigorous activities.


💬 Need Help?

Not seeing your active minutes in Stridekick? Let us know—we’re happy to help!
👉 Contact Support

Happy stepping! 🏃‍♀️✨

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