Earn Heart Points to stay healthy

To keep your heart healthy, the American Heart Association (AHA) encourages you to stay active. Each week, they recommend that 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 to earn Heart Points

You get Heart Points from activities that increase your heart pumping. You can earn Heart Points from activities such as brisk walking, jogging, swimming, taking exercise classes or playing tennis. Make sure that you track or log your activity.

How Fit measures your activity

The method of measuring your activity depends on the devices that you have and use. Google Fit uses your phone's sensors or a heart rate monitor to track your Heart Points and steps.

Based on your heart rate

If you have a heart rate sensor on your Fit-compatible device, like a smartwatch, Google Fit calculates your Heart Points and steps while you exercise.

To best track your heart rate, on your device, tap Start a workout.

• One minute at a moderate intensity heart rate (50%–69%) = 1 Heart Point
• One minute at a vigorous intensity heart rate (70% or higher) = 2 Heart Points

Tip: This is the percentage of your estimated maximum heart rate. Your maximum heart rate is based on the formula 205.8 - (0.685 x [your age, if provided]).

Wear OS devices have a heart rate zone gauge that ranges from positions such as Low, Moderate or Intense. You can earn Heart Points when your heart rate zone is in the Moderate and Intense zones.

Based on motion detection

If you don’t have a heart rate sensor on your device, Google can still try to recognise the type of activity that you’re doing.

• Activity for more than one minute (at 30 steps per minute) = 1 Move Minute
• One minute of cycling = 1 Heart Point
• One minute of brisk walking (100 steps or more per minute) = 1 Heart Point
• One minute of running (130 steps or more per minute) = 2 Heart Points

Converting exercise into points

Google Fit uses the following guidelines to convert your activity into Heart Points using Metabolic Equivalent of Task, or METs. You earn bonus points for vigorous activity.

• One minute of any activity that is 3.0 to 5.9 METs = 1 Heart Point
• One minute of any activity 6.0 METs or greater = 2 Heart Points

How long you should stay active

Google Fit gives you a Heart Point for each minute of activity that you do. While the AHA recommends staying active for at least ten minutes, recent science suggests that any moderate to vigorous exercise is helpful, however long you do it.

Add your last activity and find the points that you earned

You can add a recent exercise activity to calculate Heart Points. To add your last workout:

1. On your iPhone, open the Google Fit app .
2. Tap Add Add activity .
3. At the top, select your activity.
4. Add how long you performed that activity.
5. To add this activity to your history, at the top, tap Save.
6. To go back without saving the workout, at the top left, tap Cancel .

Check your points history

1. On your iPhone, open the Google Fit app .
2. At the top, tap the number for your steps or Heart Points.
3. At the top, to find your points on different dates, select a day, week or month.