How to track workouts with my Fitbit device and Google Pixel Watch

A variety of exercises are available in the Exercise app . Choose the option that best suits your activity (for example, if you attend a spin class, use Spinning). If your exercise isn’t included, choose Workout.

• For Fitbit Charge 5, Fitbit Charge 6, Fitbit Inspire 3, Fitbit Luxe, Fitbit Sense series, Fitbit Versa series, and Google Pixel Watch series, all exercises are available in the Exercise app . They can’t be reordered on Charge 6, Sense series, Versa series, or Google Pixel Watch series.
• Charge 5, Charge 6, Inspire 3, Luxe, Sense series, Versa 3, Versa 4, and Google Pixel Watch series show your most recently used exercises in the Exercise tile or at the top of the Exercise app .

Google Health app

1. Open the Google Health app 
2. At the top left, tap Connections your device
3. Tap Exercise Shortcuts and make your changes:
   • Tap Add to add an exercise.
   • To remove an exercise, swipe left on a shortcut and tap Delete.
   • To reorder the exercises, press and hold a shortcut, and drag it up or down to change its position.
4. Sync your device.

On most devices, tap the screen to check various stats during your workout. This includes calories burned, time elapsed, and your heart rate and heart-rate zone.

On all Google Pixel Watch, Sense, and Versa series devices, you can also customize the stats shown on the screen:

1. On your watch, open the Exercise app .
2. Swipe through the list of workouts to find the one you want to customize.
3. To customize the stats:

   • Google Pixel Watch series: Tap Settings Workout Views Key Metrics. Choose the metric you want to monitor in each slot.

   • Versa, Versa Lite Edition, and Versa 2: At the top left, tap Settings Customize Stats. Make your choices for the top, middle, and bottom stats.

   • Sense series, Versa 3, and Versa 4: Swipe up to have the exercise settings. In the Show stats section, tap Top, Middle, or Bottom to choose the stats you want to access.
4. Return to the exercise screen:
   • Google Pixel Watch series: Swipe right until you return to the exercise screen with Play .
   • Versa, Versa Lite Edition, and Versa 2: Press Back to return to the exercise screen.
   • Sense series, Versa 3, and Versa 4: Swipe down until you return to the exercise screen with the Play icon .
5. Select Play to start the workout.

Capture GPS data, which includes a workout intensity map that displays your pace, distance, and heart-rate zones, with built-in or connected GPS on your device. Only activities where you cover physical distance outdoors, like a run, walk, hike, or bike ride, offer GPS tracking.

For more information, refer to How do I use GPS on my Fitbit device.

Receive time or distance-based updates on your Fitbit device during a workout. For the Google Pixel Watch series, open the Google Health app and tap Exercise days to check your splits. You can do this after you complete a run and sync your device. Alternatively, you can set up Alerts for 1 km splits while you workout. These splits are included in the post workout summary.

Most Fitbit devices, Google Fitbit Air, and Google Pixel Watch 3 & 4 automatically detect and save activities, so you don’t have to tell your watch to start a workout. Plus, with easy manual logging, you can always capture your workouts after you’ve caught your breath.

Activity detection on Fitbit Air, Pixel Watch 3 & 4

Google Pixel Watch 3 & 4 offer activity detection, which detects common activities and adapts to your behavior. When you confirm your activity or save a detected activity as something else, you personalize the algorithm to detect the activities you do most.

In the app, you can confirm, delete, or change the detected activity. Based on the exercise, you’ll also find suggested activities tailored to your routines. Confirming your activities helps personalize the algorithm, allowing the feature to better recognize the activities you do most over time.

Review a detected activity

• For activities completed today, find the workout recap on the Today tab .
• For activities completed previously, find the workout under Recent activities on the Fitness tab .

Confirm or edit an activity

• To confirm the detected activity, go to the workout recap and tap the detected activity
• To edit the detected activity, go to the workout recap and tap one of the suggested activities, or tap More options for more activity options

Delete a detected activity

1. For activities completed today, tap Delete from the workout recap on the Today tab .
2. For activities completed previously, open the workout from Recent activities on the Fitness tab and tap Delete .
3. You can always delete any activity by tapping [kebab icon] the vertical menu icon and selecting Delete.

Control minimum duration and turn off certain activities:

1. In the Google Health app, tap your Profile picture.
2. Tap Google Health settings Activity Activity detection.
3. Tap an activity type and then adjust the Minimum duration by activity type or turn off Detect automatically.

Log an undetected activity

• If an activity goes undetected, you can always manually log your workout in the Google Health app.
• Premium subscribers can also log workouts by chatting with the AI Health Coach.

Improve activity detection

Activity detection gets smarter the more you use it. For the best experience:

• Confirm your automatically detected activities or update them, choosing from 150 options
• Select the activity types and minimum durations you’d like to automatically save in settings

You can also improve the accuracy of distance and related metrics by calibrating your device. To do so, manually track a 10-minute outdoor walk or run on your device. If you have a Fitbit Air, be sure to bring your phone with you.

Activity detection on Fitbit devices, Pixel Watch 1 & 2

Automatically detect, recognize, and record high-movement activities through activity detection, powered by SmartTrack algorithm feature on these devices:

• Google Fitbit Air
• Alta and Alta HR
• Blaze
• Charge 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
• Charge HR
• Flex 2
• Google Pixel Watch 1 and 2
• Inspire
• Inspire 2 and 3
• Inspire HR
• Ionic
• Luxe
• Sense and Sense 2
• Surge
• Versa and Versa Lite
• Versa 2, 3, and 4

Edit a detected activity

1. Tap on the detected workout on your phone or tap the Exercise days tile in the Google Health app.
2. Tap Edit .
3. Edit the details of the exercise.
4. To delete, tap Trash .

After you confirm the workout, you'll receive a summary of key metrics including:

• Cardio load
• Duration
• Energy burned
• Heart rate zones

Get real time activity alerts with Start workout reminders and Auto Start features

Use Start workout reminders or Auto Start on your device to track your workout with real-time stats when it detects you’ve started an activity.

• Google Pixel Watch 2 and 3: Start workout reminders are on by default.
• Google Pixel Watch 4 (with version 3.43.1.805933656): Start workout reminders are off by default but can be enabled.

Tip: If you have reminders turned on and don't accept the notification, your activity will still be recorded automatically by activity detection.

Learn what activities my Fitbit device and Google Pixel Watch tracks.

For certain Fitbit devices, if you pause during a workout such as at a traffic light activity tracking pauses automatically while you’re stationary. This feature is known as auto-pause, and your device vibrates to indicate that activity tracking is paused.

Resume your workout, and your device vibrates again when exercise tracking restarts. If your device doesn’t detect activity for 10 consecutive minutes, a message appears on your screen to check if you want to end the exercise.

Tip: Exercise types that support this feature vary by device.

To turn this feature on or off:

Enable the always-on screen option to prevent the screen from turning off during a workout. This function shortens your device’s battery life.

• On Sense, Versa, Versa Lite Edition, Versa 2, Versa 3, and Google Pixel Watch series, you can control the music playing on your phone or on your watch during a workout.
• On Blaze, you can control the music on your phone.
• On Charge 6, Sense 2 and Versa 4, you can control YouTube Music playing on your phone.

To automatically track swims to capture pool lengths, duration, distance, and pace, or use the Exercise app to check real-time duration and other stats varies by device.

For more information, refer to How do I track swims with my Fitbit device?

Connect another app, like Strava or Runkeeper, with your Fitbit account to track your workouts in one place. For more information, refer to How do I connect Google Health with another app?

You can set a pace and receive cues when you fall outside of your target pace.

Google Pixel Watch series

1. Open the Exercise app on your watch.
2. Tap Run Stacks to display your default and saved runs.
3. Select the workout you want to edit.
4. Tap Reorder under the intervals.
5. Tap up or down to the right of each interval to change their order.
6. Swipe to the right to return to the previous screen after you change the order of the intervals.

Google Pixel Watch series

Delete a repeat or interval

1. Open the Exercise app .
2. Tap Run Stacks to display your default and saved runs.
3. Select the workout, tap the repetition or interval you want to remove, and then tap Delete.

Delete a workout

1. Open the Exercise app .
2. Tap Run Stacks to display your default and saved runs.
3. Tap the workout you want to remove, then tap Delete.

1. Open the Exercise app.
2. Tap Run Stacks to display your default and saved runs.
3. To build a workout from scratch, tap Add .
4. Select the type of run you want to start with, you’ll be able to add additional intervals and set targets afterwards.
5. Customize your workout:
   1. Choose whether your workout should include a warm up
   2. Add additional run, rest, or repeat segments by tapping Add .
   3. Optionally, set a target for run segments if you want to receive alerts to help you stay in a target pace or heart rate zone. To set up target:
      1. Tap the run segment you want to edit Targets.
      2. Turn on Current Pace or Heart Rate.
      3. Select your desired range and swipe right to return to the previous screen.
   4. Choose whether your workout should include a cool down.
   5. Adjust your alerts.
   6. Choose what metrics you want to see during the workout.
   7. Name your workout.
6. Tap Play to start your workout. To delete a workout, tap Delete.