Steps not being tracked when activity tracking

[Rohit Ravindran]

Hello community,
I’m a new Suunto Vertical user, and am facing an issue that I’m very surprised and disappointed by. I’m a regular member of a HIIT gym, and I started activity tracking my HIIT workouts using the circuit training sports mode on the Suunto. However once I stopped the activity tracking, I noticed that my steps were not counted at all during the workout! I ran more than 2 miles on a treadmill and none of those steps were counted.
Seems like a pretty basic functionality that steps should be tracked while activities are being tracked.

I also tried adding all distance metrics to the circuit training custom sports mode and still no luck.

Please help if you have any advice. Thank you in advance!
Rohit