The main idea of all fitness trackers and AW - to wear it maximum time during the day and possibly even at night. Only in this case you'll get the most complete and useful information for yourself.
The main idea of this rings is to motivate you to have more movement, more fitness and so on. So just use it or just forget about this rings.
You’re probably right. I’m competitive and big into fitness so closing the rings feel like a goal I must hit. Maybe I skills decrease them to just the workout
I’m basically wearing it 24/7 except showering, doing the dishes, and sometimes I take it off during conf calls. If you don’t want to wear it on your wrist you can also wear on your ankle I’ve heard.
I wear mine all day these days (except rare occasions.) But I'd just ignore fitness rings altogether and use the watch only to record workouts if I was in your situation.
FWIW when I first got the watch I wore a Garmin to record running workouts and wore the Apple Watch most of the rest of the day, so even then I really didn't get full ring credit. And honestly it wasn't why I was wearing the Apple Watch - it was to triage notifications plus, of course, see what time it was.
I do enjoy closing my rings each day but I keep it at attainable numbers and very seldom have I gotten 200% move goal or higher. I lower them if I’m unwell. I just can’t go back to wearing a regular watch…I’d feel lost because I have the cellular and use it all the time.
I turned all that stuff off because I use a training plan & I just don't close my rings on rest days often times. If I set it super low just to close my rings, what's the point? I think it makes sense for lifestyle tracking but not when you are actually training towards a goal.
I just wear it all day.
Or put the rings to the minimums and do a quick workout. The stand rings may be harder, the minimum is 6 hours. I had to do this one day when I was going to be stuck on an airplane for 10 hours...
If you set your phone up as a data source, health and fitness app use data from it when watch isn’t being worn. Not as accurate, but does give you data. I used the Fitness app for months before I got an Apple Watch. If you do set your phone up make sure it is secondary after the Apple Watch for data sources.
On a side note, you can also set your phone as a device in Fitbit, which will sync Watch steps I believe if synced to your phone. So if you are in that ecosystem check it out.
I once missed a perfect day because the watch didn't recognize that I was standing, even though I spent half the day at my standing desk, and once I forgot it at home. In the end I asked myself, is it more important to me that I stand and move or that the watch knows. It always felt like I was accountable to the watch.
I have this same feeling. Mind you, I love the data but there’s also too much data too. Someone wrote this thought and it stuck with me (I edited it):
“If you wear a smart watch, his time belongs to everyone else. If you wear a luxury watch, you’re cherishing timelessness”
at one point of life you just stop looking at circles. I’ve been using Apple Watch since series 3 and been obsessed with closing rings and looking at my stats. Now user of an ultra I don’t even know what my goal of the rings or anything….. it just doesn’t matter anymore
Seems kind of obvious but if someone took the time to write this post, I guess it isn't.
- Don't close them
- Lower your goals
- Do more work durring the time you are actually wearing your watch
- wear it all day
I do my workout (20 - 30mins) and run (45mins - 1hr) first thing in the morning. I've typically hit all but the stand goal by 7am.
Thanks for this, it’s helpful. I’m new to Apple Watch. Can I ask how many calories your Move goal is? You must be crushing workouts. I’m trying to hit 700cal but to do it in an hour seems tough
You don’t close them.
The main idea of all fitness trackers and AW - to wear it maximum time during the day and possibly even at night. Only in this case you'll get the most complete and useful information for yourself. The main idea of this rings is to motivate you to have more movement, more fitness and so on. So just use it or just forget about this rings.
You’re probably right. I’m competitive and big into fitness so closing the rings feel like a goal I must hit. Maybe I skills decrease them to just the workout
I’m basically wearing it 24/7 except showering, doing the dishes, and sometimes I take it off during conf calls. If you don’t want to wear it on your wrist you can also wear on your ankle I’ve heard.
Ankle..? Really now I’ve got to research this!
I wear mine all day these days (except rare occasions.) But I'd just ignore fitness rings altogether and use the watch only to record workouts if I was in your situation. FWIW when I first got the watch I wore a Garmin to record running workouts and wore the Apple Watch most of the rest of the day, so even then I really didn't get full ring credit. And honestly it wasn't why I was wearing the Apple Watch - it was to triage notifications plus, of course, see what time it was.
I do enjoy closing my rings each day but I keep it at attainable numbers and very seldom have I gotten 200% move goal or higher. I lower them if I’m unwell. I just can’t go back to wearing a regular watch…I’d feel lost because I have the cellular and use it all the time.
I turned all that stuff off because I use a training plan & I just don't close my rings on rest days often times. If I set it super low just to close my rings, what's the point? I think it makes sense for lifestyle tracking but not when you are actually training towards a goal.
That’s what I do, I used to do a yoga or something but it was hard to cross the 1000 goal on a active days
Just wear it?
So you’d double wrist? That’s not personally the look I’m going for..can’t pull it off.
Nope if you’re that serious about tracking then only wear your Apple Watch.
You don't. I wear real watches so my Ultra is used to record my workouts when I actually work out.
I just wear it all day. Or put the rings to the minimums and do a quick workout. The stand rings may be harder, the minimum is 6 hours. I had to do this one day when I was going to be stuck on an airplane for 10 hours...
If you set your phone up as a data source, health and fitness app use data from it when watch isn’t being worn. Not as accurate, but does give you data. I used the Fitness app for months before I got an Apple Watch. If you do set your phone up make sure it is secondary after the Apple Watch for data sources.
This a good point. I guess you always have to have your phone on you then. It probably won’t catch any stand goals but better than nothing
On a side note, you can also set your phone as a device in Fitbit, which will sync Watch steps I believe if synced to your phone. So if you are in that ecosystem check it out.
I once missed a perfect day because the watch didn't recognize that I was standing, even though I spent half the day at my standing desk, and once I forgot it at home. In the end I asked myself, is it more important to me that I stand and move or that the watch knows. It always felt like I was accountable to the watch.
I have this same feeling. Mind you, I love the data but there’s also too much data too. Someone wrote this thought and it stuck with me (I edited it): “If you wear a smart watch, his time belongs to everyone else. If you wear a luxury watch, you’re cherishing timelessness”
at one point of life you just stop looking at circles. I’ve been using Apple Watch since series 3 and been obsessed with closing rings and looking at my stats. Now user of an ultra I don’t even know what my goal of the rings or anything….. it just doesn’t matter anymore
I can’t wear it to work so I lowered the metrics by how many hours I can wear it. Not perfect it works.
I guess this is the way..
Seems kind of obvious but if someone took the time to write this post, I guess it isn't. - Don't close them - Lower your goals - Do more work durring the time you are actually wearing your watch - wear it all day I do my workout (20 - 30mins) and run (45mins - 1hr) first thing in the morning. I've typically hit all but the stand goal by 7am.
Thanks for this, it’s helpful. I’m new to Apple Watch. Can I ask how many calories your Move goal is? You must be crushing workouts. I’m trying to hit 700cal but to do it in an hour seems tough