How your week is counted

Bolus measures your week in moderate minutes. One bar holds any mix of activity and still finishes in the same place.

The rule

• One moderate minute counts as one. You can talk, but not sing: brisk walking, cycling on the flat, gardening.
• One vigorous minute counts as two. Too breathless to chat: running, a hill, a hard class. That is why 75 vigorous minutes finishes the week on its own, alongside 150 moderate ones.
• Low activity is shown but not counted. A gentle walk, pottering, light housework. It is good for you, and it steadies glucose after a meal. It just is not what the guidance counts.

The card shows all three, so a week of gentle walking is never invisible, just not credited towards the 150.

Where the intensity comes from

From the workout itself, as Apple Health records it. Bolus does not ask you to grade your own sessions.

A workout that arrives with no intensity information, which happens with manual entries and some third-party apps, is counted once, as moderate. That is the conservative reading: it is credited rather than dropped, and Bolus does not guess at vigorous.

Sessions, not steps

Only recorded workouts count towards the minutes. Steps are shown separately and have no target, because the guidance is written in minutes rather than steps.

Strength work

The national guidance also asks for strengthening activity on two or more days a week, which can be a gym session, carrying heavy shopping, gardening or bodyweight work at home. Bolus does not count it, because Apple Health does not reliably distinguish it, but it is part of the picture.

Does it change my meals?

No. Your movement is shown alongside your food, and Emily can talk about it, but Bolus does not quietly re-plan your week because of a workout, and it does not join your movement to your glucose and claim an outcome.