What are Active Zone Minutes or agile minutes on my Fitbit device?

Earn Active Zone Minutes or active minutes based on your device with eye-pumping activity throughout the day.

Does my Fitbit device runway Active Zone Minutes or agile minutes?

These devices runway Active Zone Minutes :

  • Fitbit Charge 4
  • Fitbit Charge v
  • Fitbit Inspire 2
  • Fitbit Ionic
  • Fitbit Luxe
  • Fitbit Sense
  • Fitbit Versa series

All other devices track active minutes .

Active Zone Minutes

ClosedHow do I earn Active Zone Minutes?

Earn Agile Zone Minutes for time spent in the fatty burn, cardio, or peak heart-rate zones. To help you maximize your time, you earn 2 Active Zone Minutes for each minute y'all're in the cardio or peak zones. Center-rate zones are personalized based on your fitness level and age.

Heart-Rate Zone Active Zone Minutes
1 minute in the fat burn zone one Active Zone Infinitesimal
i minute in the cardio or peak zone 2 Active Zone Minutes*

For more than information about centre-charge per unit zones, see How do I rails heart rate with my Fitbit device?

*Your Fitbit device doesn't track your heart rate during a swim workout. Yous earn 1 Active Zone Infinitesimal for each minute of pond.

ClosedWhy did I earn more Active Zone Minutes than my workout time?

For more intense workouts, such equally spinning, interval training, or running, the number of Active Zone Minutes you lot earn might exceed the length of your conditioning. For example, if you run for a total of twenty minutes and spend 10 minutes in the fat fire zone and 10 minutes in the cardio or meridian zones, you earn 30 Agile Zone Minutes.

Workout Middle-Rate Zone Active Zone Minutes
5-minute warmup Fatty fire zone (1x) v
ten-minute run Cardio and peak zones (2x) 20
5-minute absurd down Fat burn zone (1x) 5
20-minute workout Total 30

ClosedHow do I see eye-zone notifications on my Fitbit device?

ClosedCharge 4 and Inspire two

In that location are 2 means your device notifies you near Active Zone Minutes:

  • Workouts: A few moments after you enter a different heart-charge per unit zone in the Exercise app , so that you know how hard you're working.

    Cardio exercise screen

    The number of times your device buzzes indicates which zone you're in:

Number of Buzzes Heart-Rate Zone
i buzz Fatty fire zone
2 buzzes Cardio zone
3 buzzes Acme zone

  • Everyday activeness: 7 minutes after you enter a eye-rate zone during the day (for case, during a brisk walk).
    Active zone minutes being earned screen

Closed Accuse 5 and Luxe

There are 2 means your device notifies yous nigh Active Zone Minutes:

  • Workouts: A few moments after you enter a dissimilar middle-rate zone while using the Exercise app . The number of times your device buzzes indicated which zone you lot're in:
Number of Buzzes Heart-Charge per unit Zone
1 buzz Fat fire zone
two buzzes Cardio zone
3 buzzes Height zone

Notification that the wearer's heart rate is in the cardio zone

  • Everyday action: vii minutes after y'all enter a heart-charge per unit zone throughout the mean solar day (for instance, during a brisk walk)

Notification that Active Zone Minutes are being earned

Note: On Luxe, center-zone notifications are turned off to start. To turn them on, meet Can I turn zone notifications on or off on my Fitbit device?

ClosedIonic, Versa, Versa Low-cal Edition, and Versa two

In that location are 2 ways to receive eye-zone notifications later on you enter a heart-rate zone during an exercise in the Exercise app :

The number of times your device buzzes indicates which heart-charge per unit zone you're in:

Number of Buzzes Eye-Rate Zone
1 light buzz Below zones
one buzz Fat burn down zone
2 buzzes Cardio zone
3 buzzes Tiptop zone

Exercise that's earning Active Zone Minutes Exercise that's earning double Active Zone Minutes

ClosedSense and Versa 3

When using the Exercise app , your watch notifies you a few moments after you enter a dissimilar heart-rate zone. The number of times your device buzzes indicates which zone yous're in:

Number of Buzzes Centre-Rate Zone
1 fizz Below zones
2 buzzes Fat burn zone
3 buzzes Cardio zone
four buzzes Peak zone

ClosedCan I turn zone notifications on or off on my Fitbit device?

ClosedCharge 5 and Luxe

Scenario How to turn notifications on or off
Heart-zone notifications during an practice in the Exercise app

  1. On your tracker, swipe left or right to the Exercise app , then swipe upwardly to find an exercise.

  2. Tap to choose an exercise, and so swipe up through the practise settings.

  3. Tap Heart Zone Notifications to turn the setting on or off.
Weekly Active Zone Minutes notifications On your tracker, swipe down from the clock screen to find the Settings app . Open the Settings app then tap Heart Zone Notifications to plough the setting on or off.

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Turn centre-zone notifications on or off in the Settings app on your device.

ClosedCan I run across my previous active minutes information?

Your active minutes information is below your Agile Zone Minutes data in the Fitbit app:

  1. On the Today tab , tap Zone Mins.
  2. At the top, tap Calendar week.
  3. Scroll downwardly to meet your active minutes data.

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Active minutes

ClosedHow does my Fitbit device calculate active minutes?

Fitbit devices calculate active minutes through metabolic equivalents (METs). This metric, which factors in your body mass, is used to gauge practise intensity. METs are calculated through a ratio (source):

Rate of free energy expended during an action : rate of free energy expended during remainder

1 MET is the charge per unit of energy you expend during rest or sitting quietly, while you typically expend 3 METs or more during a moderately-intense activity such as walking. Yous earn active minutes for activities at or in a higher place about 3 METs.

If your Fitbit device tracks heart rate, your heart-charge per unit data is used to calculate active minutes for non-step-based activities, such every bit weight lifting, yoga, and rowing. If your device doesn't track heart rate, your active minutes for these activities will exist lower.

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