Activity FAQs

How to check your step-count data
We need 14 days of step-count data within a 28-day rolling time-window to generate your Daily Step Average rating.  You can check how many days of data we ...
Exercise Minutes: what is a 4-complete-week rolling time-window?
When it comes to your Exercise Minutes rating, one of the requirements is a minimum of 14 days of data within a 4-complete-week rolling time-window. What is...
Why is my Exercise Rating green when my Intense or Moderate minutes are red/amber?
You may have noticed that your Exercise Rating is green, but your intense or moderate minutes are still red or amber! Your overall Activity Rating is base...
Exercise Minutes: Intense vs Moderate
When analysing your activity, we calculate your exercise minutes as either intense or moderate. Our ratings are based on The World Health Organisation’s r...
What is a 28-day rolling time-window?
By now you would have heard us mention the 28-day rolling time-window we use to calculate a number of your health ratings. If you’re unsure what we mean by ...
Why do my exercise minutes appear different in VitaBuddy vs. my device app?
Wearable device apps provide VitaBuddy with a ‘snapshot’ of your activity. Some details are provided, others are not – and we can only work with what we’ve ...
Why do I have an overall Activity rating, but no Intense or Moderate Exercise Minutes ratings?
In order to improve your health, you need to know where you’re at. And because we’re here to help you improve your health, we want to give you important inf...
What qualifies as ‘Intense Exercise’?
Intense exercise gets your heart pounding and body sweating. You’re only able to speak a few words at a time and if you were to rate the difficulty of the w...