To keep your heart healthy, the American Heart Association (AHA) encourages you to stay active. Each week, they recommend you do at least 150 minutes of moderate activity or 75 minutes of vigorous activity. To help you follow these recommendations, Google Fit tracks your exercise in the form of Heart Points and Steps.
How Fit measures your activity
The method of measuring your activity depends on the devices you have and use. Google Fit uses your phone's sensors or a heart rate monitor to track your Heart Points and Steps.
Converting exercise into points
How long you should stay active
Google Fit gives you a Heart Point for each minute of activity you do. While the AHA recommends staying active for at least 10 minutes, recent science suggests that any moderate to vigorous exercise is helpful, no matter how long you do it.
Add your last activity and find the points you earned
Based on your last exercise and the info you add, Fit can calculate your Heart Points. To add your last workout:
- On your phone, open the Google Fit app
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- Tap Add
Add activity
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- At the top, select your activity.
- Add how long you performed that activity. At the top, you’ll see how many Heart Points and Steps you earned.
- To go back without saving the workout, on the top left, tap Cancel
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- If you want to add this activity to your history, at the top, tap Save.
Check your points history
- On your phone, open the Google Fit app
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- At the top, tap the number for your Steps or Heart Points.
- To see your points on different dates, at the top, select a day, week, or month.