I am at a loss as to how to track elevation change for walks and hikes using Samsung Health exercise data. When I go into the detailed data for "Walking" or "Hiking" I see current elevation. How can I include that parameter in my walking and hiking summary data ? I live in a mountain community, so this is important to my exercise routines, which are rarely level!
@wildplaces I see charts for both manually triggered activity and automatically triggered activity. Only the manually triggered activity has elevation.
My manually triggered walk to the mailbox yesterday (1.4 miles, probably at least 325' elevation change) doesn't show up when I click on weekly activity...will have to try again to make sure I've initiated it correctly. Seems that I need to do this before starting my walk, or it will simply pause an automatically initiated walking session. Still, the parameter does not appear to track total altitude gain/loss during a walk, only difference between max and min. Thanks for your insights.
When I manually switch on the specific activity (e.g. walking) then the Samsung Health app does show a figure for elevation gain. Difficult to tell right now whether that is the difference between maximum and minimum elevation, because my daily walks are mostly on a mountain road with all downhill or all uphill in either direction. Once I am able to test it on a trail with ups and downs, then I will have a better sense of what data that parameter is displaying. Interestingly, the automatic exercise data does not recognize the number of floors up and down during the day (shjows 0, when I know I've ascended/desecended a floor at least 5-6 times daily, usually more frequently). Stay tuned...
