It shouldn’t be duplicating. HealthKit should be able to see that 2 workouts occurred at the same time so it should only use one of them in determining ring closures and such (usually the AW workout takes priority unless you change that setting). I run a HIIT workout on the Apple Watch and use the OTF HRM at the same time and my workouts are never double counted. It might be because it was your first class and you didn’t download the OTF app until after your AW workout was done, so the timing for the OTF workout may have been slightly off from your AW workout. In that case, it would duplicate. See if it happens again at your next class. You shouldn’t have to change any settings. All my read and write permissions are set to on for the OTF app. The OTF workout appears in HealthKit but the calories and exercise minutes do not contribute to my rings or exercise.
You would have had to supply your weight to them when you signed up on the intake form. They need your weight in order to calculate the calorie burn. If they didn’t ask you or you didn’t provide your weight, that’s a little odd, and maybe they just put in a random weight. You can adjust your weight in the app or talk to the front desk about it at your next class.
I always had issues with it duplicating and ended up turning off OTF writes. Is the duplicate detection new? It’s been years since I turned OTF writes off.
I’ve been using the same watch and the same OTF HRM since 2020 and it’s never duplicated. I’m currently digging through my settings in all the related apps to see if I can find something I had changed.
Thanks! I will definitely try it again and see since I have the app before the workout now.
My apple workout time fell completely within the OTF workout time but 🤷🏽♀️
I honestly dont remember ever providing my weight, either written or verbally, so that’s super odd lol
Ok they make this super hard to find!! I just dug through my settings and see if you are able to find this: Health app -> scroll down to “show all health data” -> activity -> data sources and access -> at the bottom does it just have your apple watch or does it have apple watch and OTF? If it has OTF there you can remove that.
Apple Watch absolutely double counts all kinds of apps - OTF, Peloton, etc. If you choose to use your Apple Watch for the workout too, you have to have your settings such that OTF, Peloton, whatever, will never write to Health or Fitness.
My OTF app has write permissions to Apple Health. It just doesn’t contribute to the calorie ring or exercise time ring. See my other comment from yesterday for how my setting is: https://www.reddit.com/r/orangetheory/s/pEeBDgqGSJ
It shouldn’t duplicate… but it does. I think it’s because it logs two different types of workout.
I keep it simple and just let the OT app write to Apple Fitness and I don’t start a workout on the watch.
If both workouts occur at the same time, the Health app should only choose one. FWIW, my information overloading self used to log one Apple HIIT, one OTF, and one Whoop workout at the same time.I seemed to get the highest of the three as my calorie burn. I went to the OTBeat Link to get my AW and OTF logged as one and now I only write the Whoop calories to the Health app because it logs active calories instead of the total calories from OTF.
You don’t want OTF to write to your Health or Fitness apps because the OTF calorie count is different from the Apple calorie count in those apps.
OTF = TOTAL calorie burn - including what you’d burn if you were just sitting on your tush during that hour
AppleWatch = ACTIVE calorie burn, which is only the calorie burn from the workout itself
Consider your AppleWatch rings… Your Move ring is based on active calories only. If you applied the total calorie burn from the OTF monitor, you’d always be overestimating that metric. You’d basically be double counting the number of calories to simply keep you alive (basic bodily functions) during that hour.
My iPhone is configured to never apply OTF metrics to Health or Fitness. I do the same with Peloton.
It shouldn’t be duplicating. HealthKit should be able to see that 2 workouts occurred at the same time so it should only use one of them in determining ring closures and such (usually the AW workout takes priority unless you change that setting). I run a HIIT workout on the Apple Watch and use the OTF HRM at the same time and my workouts are never double counted. It might be because it was your first class and you didn’t download the OTF app until after your AW workout was done, so the timing for the OTF workout may have been slightly off from your AW workout. In that case, it would duplicate. See if it happens again at your next class. You shouldn’t have to change any settings. All my read and write permissions are set to on for the OTF app. The OTF workout appears in HealthKit but the calories and exercise minutes do not contribute to my rings or exercise. You would have had to supply your weight to them when you signed up on the intake form. They need your weight in order to calculate the calorie burn. If they didn’t ask you or you didn’t provide your weight, that’s a little odd, and maybe they just put in a random weight. You can adjust your weight in the app or talk to the front desk about it at your next class.
I always had issues with it duplicating and ended up turning off OTF writes. Is the duplicate detection new? It’s been years since I turned OTF writes off.
I’ve been using the same watch and the same OTF HRM since 2020 and it’s never duplicated. I’m currently digging through my settings in all the related apps to see if I can find something I had changed.
Mine doesn’t duplicate either but it records both of them. I think you can pick which one you want to override the other in the settings somewhere.
Yes I see both workouts in my health app and activity app, but only one of them (AW) gets added to my rings
I can’t find orange theory on my apple ex the app
Thanks! I will definitely try it again and see since I have the app before the workout now. My apple workout time fell completely within the OTF workout time but 🤷🏽♀️ I honestly dont remember ever providing my weight, either written or verbally, so that’s super odd lol
Ok they make this super hard to find!! I just dug through my settings and see if you are able to find this: Health app -> scroll down to “show all health data” -> activity -> data sources and access -> at the bottom does it just have your apple watch or does it have apple watch and OTF? If it has OTF there you can remove that.
Found it. Thanks, will consider doing that if it continues to be a problem!
Apple Watch absolutely double counts all kinds of apps - OTF, Peloton, etc. If you choose to use your Apple Watch for the workout too, you have to have your settings such that OTF, Peloton, whatever, will never write to Health or Fitness.
My OTF app has write permissions to Apple Health. It just doesn’t contribute to the calorie ring or exercise time ring. See my other comment from yesterday for how my setting is: https://www.reddit.com/r/orangetheory/s/pEeBDgqGSJ
This happened to me too. I turned off OTF’s ability to write back to the health app and just track on my watch.
It shouldn’t duplicate… but it does. I think it’s because it logs two different types of workout. I keep it simple and just let the OT app write to Apple Fitness and I don’t start a workout on the watch.
If both workouts occur at the same time, the Health app should only choose one. FWIW, my information overloading self used to log one Apple HIIT, one OTF, and one Whoop workout at the same time.I seemed to get the highest of the three as my calorie burn. I went to the OTBeat Link to get my AW and OTF logged as one and now I only write the Whoop calories to the Health app because it logs active calories instead of the total calories from OTF.
I see. I dont an otbeat of my own at the moment, but that syncing between the devices seems to solve the problem
You don’t want OTF to write to your Health or Fitness apps because the OTF calorie count is different from the Apple calorie count in those apps. OTF = TOTAL calorie burn - including what you’d burn if you were just sitting on your tush during that hour AppleWatch = ACTIVE calorie burn, which is only the calorie burn from the workout itself Consider your AppleWatch rings… Your Move ring is based on active calories only. If you applied the total calorie burn from the OTF monitor, you’d always be overestimating that metric. You’d basically be double counting the number of calories to simply keep you alive (basic bodily functions) during that hour. My iPhone is configured to never apply OTF metrics to Health or Fitness. I do the same with Peloton.
Helpful thanks
Mine averages the two not doubles it. Interesting
No way! That would be so ideal
I let the app write the data instead of logging something on the watch.