Track workouts instead of exercise minutes

I would like to unblock apps after I workout but right now the health app options is only “exercise minutes,” which my workout apps (Strava, Nike, running and gym apps, etc.) do not write data to. From the little research I’ve done, it seems exercise minutes stats are for Apple Watch users, which I am not. An alternative would be for the apps to unlock at the gym via geolocation and then lock up again after a certain amount of time.