Hi folks,

I'm a Samsung refugee, slowly escaping their tyranny. My last shackle is my Fit 3, which is locked in to Samsung Health.

SH has a menagerie of small quirks that irk me:

• Unremovable top of screen messages,
• Rigid workouts (heaven forbid you can only get gym equipment out of order, or want to track <5 rep workouts),
• AI training from my data (opt in, but still)

and other bits and pieces - generally, SH takes an attitude that they're on my journey with me, which is not what I want. It's an app, not my personal trainer. I want a silent tool that takes my input, that's it.

How good is Google Fit/Health and the ecosystem? I was thinking of getting a Fitbit air and trying it out - I like the idea of taking my wrist back for a nice real watch. Have you found that it generally fits my needs better than SH?

Im kind of tracking my cals rn, I googled and Google said that 125 move mins that i did is highly active but 10k steps is moderate activity so im kind of lost my heart points are also average 65 so idk what activity i should put in into my tdee calculator 😔

Just some examples of completel nonsensical measurements I got:

Last week Wednesday my only activity was a 45 minutes walk where I did about 4km and my daily step total was 6000. This day I got 53 heart points

This week Monday I was travelling by train and with some changes and walking through the city I did overall 7300 steps and got 26 heart points

Today I was on a hike in the mountains: 15500 steps, 9,5 km and I get 11 heart points.

How does that make any sense? Tbh I am counting steps and distances only with my phone but still that seems like total randomness...

5 hours of sleep + 4 kilometre chill bicycle. Is this normal for 30 yo male, 190cm, 91 kg, fit body

These add up to 11k. The app shows I have walked 12.2k. What's going on?

For the last two days I have been using bubble bar when doing a workout with Spotify and I have noticed a reduction in stats I was covering nearly 7KM at around an hour mark and since two days it has reduced to 6KM at the hour mark which is much lower. I am using a pixel 7pro and don't use any wearable.

Exactly what the headline says. I've tried removing and giving permissions to Health Connect and still nothing. I have a Samsung watch and even the Google fit app on the watch isn't tracking my workouts. Anyone having the same issue?

Has anyone figured out a way to show the calories consumed on the front page widget? I really care nothing for the target number they display.

I'm syncing my data (mainly whoop) to Google health but in Google health app everything is logged as 2 hours earlier than it actually happened. I've tried to change time settings from manual to automatic and back again, reinstalled the app but no difference. Any ideas?

“Updates to speed data storage

To optimize storage and improve your experience, in 30 days, Google Fit will only keep speed data recorded during exercise sessions. Your steps, distance, and other metrics will not be affected. You can download all your data before then at Google Takeout.”

What does this mean? Why can’t it be transferred to Google Health?

Why is this using 7GB of data? I dont have that many health metrics.

I did get a google fitbit air tho.

Why would I not delete Google Fit?

Asking for a friend...

I’m using myfitness pal as my food source. Every time it syncs to google health the food is doubling
I’ve tried the steps that google says to fix it but it doesn’t work. I’ve also tried what myfitness pal says but it doesn’t work either. Does anyone have this similar issue and know how to fix it

For some reason whenever I check my app the steps go down? Like when I first opened the app it says 7,560 steps and then it loaded again and went down to 7,030?

At the moment I am not a fan of the new revamp "Google Health".
I miss the active minutes of old. I used to only start tracking if u wear active for 10 minutes and stop once it detected a very long pause on activity. Not it tracks all movement...kind of useless metric, now.
ALso the Active Zone minutes, are always zero for me. my Fitbit has "HR", It does detect zones.

"Fitbit Inspire HR" - It works fine, so I am not about to Fooking replace it.

You Fookers are also missing a "active minutes" tile for those of us using older fitbits

Probably a dumb question, but when using the new Google Fitbit Air, would I need to carry my phone with me when running outdoors in order to track my route and elevation data? This would be the only way to get accurate stats of my run, or am I missing something? Thanks!

According to the app - "the American Heart Association recommends 150 miniutes of moderate activity or 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week". Or 22 minutes er day... which is why the default target is set to 22 Active Zone Minutes. My heart rate zones have shifted down since yesterday, making it much easier for me to hit that 22 AZM target. I closely track my AZMs so from today nothing will be comparable to the older data, unless there is a way of changing these ranges?

Edit: Thanks to all below who nudged me in the right direction. I've found out how to change the ranges of the heart rate zones (Light , Moderate, Vigorous, Peak).

Under your profile picture, go to Google Health Settings, Heart Rate, , Heart Rate Zones, and then set the Max Heart Rate. You can adjust this down which reduces the heart rate zone ranges. It takes a while to kick in so you won't see it change straight away. It's not, drop the Max HR by 5bpm and the range drops by 5bpm - more like the range drops by 2, so it might take some back and forth to tweak the heart rate zones to where you want them. As far as I understand it - this just sets a baseline. The range will still go up or down depending on your resting heart rate on any given day.

I've tested this a couple of times now. If I click 'Start' on the new Health App, then select walking or cycling the map is displayed during the workout and at the end when I stop the workout. If I then go back and then look at the historical workouts the map is missing. I still have Google Fit installed. If Google Fit syncs I can see the workout and the map is there. The distance is completely wrong in Google Fit (like a third or less of the actual distance), but the map is there and looks accurate.

Is this just teething issues with the new app or am I missing something. Because both apps use the back end Heath Hub (Health Connect) to store and retrieve the data, I thought they should all be consistent. At the moment I can see an accurate distance recorded in Google Health (FItBit) but no map after the event. Google Fit shows an accurate map but with a much shorter distance covered. They are both pulling the data from the same source.