

Sessions is supposed to allocate your Fuel points even more accurately since you tell it which activity you’re doing, however in my testing, whether or not I started a session to track my run didn’t make much difference - I gained basically the same amount of Fuel points both ways. The most generic choices are training and running, and the rest are sports like baseball, basketball, soccer, and snowboarding - if you’re not doing something on the list, you can’t make a session out of it. The activity choices, however, show how sports-focused the device is.

When you’re finished, you press the button on the band or manually end the session from inside the app. You can monitor chunks of active time with the new “sessions” feature: at the start of a session, you pick the activity you’re doing from the app’s list and then just do it. It says this allows the band to know when you’re playing basketball versus walking around the block, and will give you a more accurate number of Fuel points based on the activity. Nike also claims the FuelBand can recognize different activities by using its accelerometer to detect motion on three different axes.
