With just a few swipe and finger taps, Apple Watch wearers can set their own exercise, exercise, and stance goals to better suit their fitness needs.
The Apple Watch The 6 series is one of the best wearables on the market for active people. The built-in fitness apps make it easy for owners to set goals, track workouts, and monitor their progress over time. Both the flagship Apple Watch 6 and the cheaper Watch SE offer these features, so users can take responsibility for their health without being tied to a premium purchase.
Health tracking has long been one of the main benefits of an Apple Watch. Using a range of sensors that track the latest model’s movement, heart rate, and even blood oxygen levels, these wearables can provide an accurate picture of a user’s activity. When worn as a daily accessory, an Apple Watch provides a unique insight into your current health and promotes regular exercise routines with long-term health benefits.
Apple makes it easy for users to keep track of various aspects of their activity. The integrated activity app conveniently divides the activity types into three colored rings for the categories “moving”, “exercise” and “standing”. The exercise ring shows how many calories were burned that day, while the exercise ring and standing ring each show how many minutes users exercised or stood for more than a minute. As the day progresses, these rings fill up as users make progress toward their daily goals. At the end of each day, progress is added to a monthly tracker that can be tracked back to evaluate progress for that month.
How to set custom fitness goals
To get the most out of the Apple Watch’s fitness tracking features, users can set their own fitness goals. To do this, open the Activities app, swipe up and select “Change Goals”. Then tap the plus or minus button to increase or decrease the number of calories the Move app is targeting. After the move target has been set, tap “Next” to reach the exercise target and adjust the number of minutes. Clicking Next again will take you to the stand target where the process can be repeated to set the number of minutes you want for the day. Once all of these goals are set, the rate at which each ring is filled will be adjusted.
Since Apple fans achieve their health goals from different fitness points, setting appropriate goals is an important feature. Another important step is creating a health profile using the Apple Watch app on an iPhone. This profile gathers basic information such as height, weight, and age in order to establish preliminary goals. Since much of the motion tracking is computed by arm movements, ensuring a correct fit is also of paramount importance. Once those first few steps are taken, the workout app can track certain types of exercise and send reminders when it is time to start and finish an activity.
Experts have long agreed that regular exercise is one of the best ways to live a long, healthy life, and the Apple Watch can become a powerful ally along the way. By spending a little time creating a health profile and personalized fitness goals, you can get customized tracking and insight into activity levels and progress toward personal goals. These Apple Watch features provide insights that might otherwise be lost and make the difference between a sedentary and an active lifestyle.
Source: Apple
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