Exercise Minutes

Exercise Minutes is one of three core metrics MoveTogether reads (alongside Steps and Active Calories). It feeds Workout Based scoring directly and contributes to Raw Numbers and Percentage of Goals scoring.

Non-Apple wearables have equivalents that MoveTogether maps to Exercise Minutes, Garmin calls them Intensity Minutes, Fitbit calls them Active Zone Minutes, WHOOP uses strain duration. The result is a single normalized signal for 'time spent moving at intensity' that's fair across every supported tracker.

Because the mapping is per-platform, exercise minutes are the metric where wearables disagree most. A brisk walk that clears Apple's threshold may not clear Garmin's intensity-minute threshold, and WHOOP derives its figure from strain duration rather than a heart-rate cutoff. That is a good reason to prefer Percentage of Goals when a competition mixes brands, since it scores each person against their own goal and a stricter tracker never becomes a handicap. If everyone in the group is on Apple, Exercise Minutes scoring compares like with like and is the most direct measure of time actually spent working.