Looking to get credit for your cycling activity on MoveSpring? Check out our Cycling FAQs below for best practices and guidance.

Note: Your challenge admins at your organization are in charge of your account settings. Depending on your organization’s account settings, you have different options for how to get credit for your cycling data in MoveSpring.

MoveSpring pulls in steps, distance, and active minutes from connected devices. With step-based activities like walking and running, your connected device should credit you with steps and distance from these activities automatically. However, activities like cycling are not step-based, and are not accounted for in your step and distance totals automatically.

Your active minutes earned through cycling or biking may sync to MoveSpring from a connected device, but MoveSpring does not sync steps or distance from cycling workouts automatically.

Here is what you can expect to sync to MoveSpring from a cycling workout:

No, MoveSpring will not automatically convert non-step based activities like biking to steps and distance. You will need to manually convert your cycling activity to the equivalent step and distance totals using the activity converter, if it is enabled by your admins for your organization. You can learn more about the activity converter here, and see FAQs about using the converter for cycling here.

If the activity converter is not enabled for your organization, you will only be able to get credit for activity that is tracked by your connected fitness device.

No, your connected device will not convert activities such as cycling to step or distance totals before syncing to MoveSpring.

MoveSpring pulls in Steps, Walking & Running Distance, and Exercise Minutes from the Health app on your phone. Your time spent cycling should sync to MoveSpring via Exercise Minutes depending on the intensity of your workout, but we won't sync in Cycling Distance.

Note: If you’re using the Apple Health app to sync to MoveSpring and do not connect an Apple Watch, time spent cycling will not sync. Learn more here.

You can connect the Peloton app to the Apple Health app. MoveSpring pulls in Steps, Walking & Running Distance, and Exercise Minutes from the Health app on your phone. Your time spent cycling should sync to MoveSpring via Exercise Minutes depending on the intensity of your workout, but we won't sync in Cycling Distance.

MoveSpring pulls in Steps, Distance, and Intensity Minutes from the Garmin Connect app on your phone. MoveSpring can only connect to devices that report steps. If your device doesn't report steps, it will not sync with MoveSpring. MoveSpring cannot sync data from Garmin Edge devices or other bike computers. See here for a list of Garmin devices we can connect with.

Your time spent cycling should sync to MoveSpring via Intensity Minutes depending on the intensity of your workout. Garmin devices may also send MoveSpring a combined distance total of both running/walking distance and cycling distance.

If your Garmin device is syncing combined running/walking and cycling distance totals to MoveSpring, and you need to have more control over those totals for a current distance-based challenge, you have a few options:

Option 1. Connect to another device option during the challenge.

Option 2. Remove your Garmin permissions and use manual entry during the challenge.

If your device's mobile app can send steps to the Apple Health app for iPhone or Google Fit app for Android phones, then we should be able to pull those steps into MoveSpring as well.

Note: This option does require your device app to reliably send step data into Google Fit/Apple Health. MoveSpring cannot guarantee that your device’s app will accurately and reliably sync your data to Google Fit/Apple Health.

MoveSpring only pulls in steps, distance from walking/running, and exercise/move minutes from the Health app or Google Fit app on your phone. Your time spent cycling should sync to MoveSpring as active minutes depending on the intensity of your workout, but we won't sync in cycling distance.

Follow these steps to see if you can send steps to Google Fit/Apple Health:

If you have an iPhone, you may also want to confirm that your source priorities are adjusted so that your steps from your device app are prioritized over the steps tracked by your iPhone. Look for the "Prioritize data sources" heading here for help with that.

If the activity converter is enabled for your organization, you should see the option to select Add activity from your dashboard and then you'll see the Convert activity button.

Note: It is up to your challenge admin to enable the activity converter. If you do not see the option to add activity, it is not allowed for your challenge.

The activity converter can be used to get credit for non step-based activities, such as cycling. You should not convert activities that have already been credited to your account via a connected device.

For example, if you’re an Apple Watch user and you just completed a 30-minute indoor cycling workout, you can use the activity converter to add the equivalent steps and distance you would have earned for a similar step-based workout. Since you already got credit for your active minutes from your connected Apple Watch, un-check your active minutes time before saving your converted activity.

Note: Your challenge admins are in charge of your account settings for your organization, and decide whether to enable or disable the activity converter.

Click here for detailed instructions on using the activity converter.

The activity converter takes your time spent performing a non-stepping activity such as cycling and converts it into the equivalent step total based on the intensity of the activity. Then, steps are converted into distance at a rate of 2,000 steps to 1 mile (or approximately 3,219 steps to 1 km).

The aim of the converter is not to include your total cycling distance, but rather to convert your cycling workout to the equivalent walking distance, so you should expect the converted distance total to be lower than your actual cycling distance. This allows you to compete with others in your challenge fairly, as all activities are represented as walking/running.

We combined all spin/bike activities into the category "Cycling." Please use the “Cycling” category for these activities.

You can select from "Cycling, easy pace," "Cycling, moderate pace," or "Cycling, vigorous pace" depending on the speed and intensity of your ride.

The vigorous cycling option should account for higher-intensity cycling workouts, whereas the easy cycling option accounts for rides where your heart rate and speed remain lower. You can learn more about what would count as a moderate vs. vigorous workout here.

The converter calculations provided are based the intensity of your workout and were developed using a combination of sources, including NASA, PEHP Utah, and Washington University Wellness.

You can uncheck any metrics you do not need added to your account when converting activities. Simply uncheck the active minute metric if you have already received credit for your time spent cycling and only want to get the equivalent step & distance totals added.

You should typically use the activity converter to get credit for any non-step based activities, including cycling. The converter allows you to compete with others in your challenge fairly, as all activities are represented as walking/running.

If you have any remaining questions that were not addressed in this guide, please contact our support team by emailing help@movespring.com or via the in app messenger, and we’d be happy to answer your questions.

Happy cycling! 🚴