You earn Fitness Points when you record your activity on a TomTom watch with heart rate monitoring. The amount of Fitness Points you earn depends on many factors, including how often you exercise, your heart rate during activities, maximum and resting heart rates, activity, gender, age, height and weight.
Note: You can only earn Fitness Points when your watch can measure your heart rate. When your watch is not on your wrist, for example when it's worn over your ski jacket or when you're using the bicycle mount, your heart rate is not measured unless you are wearing a heart rate monitor and chest strap. Heart rate is not measured in the Swim activity.
Your Fitness Points represent your activities and your fitness. Every time you do an activity and your heart rate is measured, you earn Fitness Points. The rate at which Fitness Points are earned is based on your current fitness level and on the intensity of your activity. The more intense your activity and the longer you do your activity, the more points you earn. As you get fitter, you'll have to work harder to earn your Fitness Points. If you are fit it will take you more time or more effort to earn the same amount of Fitness Points as someone who isn't fit.
You can do too much activity in one day. If you exceed the Fitness Points Overdrive limit in one day then you might be putting too much stress on your body, and this can cause illness and injury. Take a rest day if you feel tired.
Fitness Points can help you to improve your fitness. This is because they help you understand when you need to be more active or when you have done enough, and which activities earn you more points and therefore work best for you. You can then concentrate on those activities. For example, you can make an informed choice between a 30 minute commute by bike, or spending 10 minutes on a high-intensity workout.