Jiří Filip If there's one thing I really like about the Apple Watch, it's their activity monitoring. Although years ago I didn't really believe that they could really get someone to move, I am a living example of the fact that they really can. After all, thanks to the Apple Watch and their motivation, I was years ago lost around 30 kg. However, as much as we like their activity monitoring, as time goes by, I am starting to get more and more annoyed by their almost destructive approach to motivation to move. Why over time? Because it has practically not changed at all in recent years, which is a good thing considering the technological progress.
I'm exactly the type of user who has no problem going around a few extra streets just to have their activity rings colored and the watch praise them for this activity. I don't have a problem with the occasional pep talk about the fact that if I get up from my chair and go for a walk, I still have a chance to close the circles. But what annoys me and saddens me at the same time is how stupid the watch challenges work in terms of completion. For example, two weeks ago I sprained my ankle playing sports, which is why I'm now taking unplanned time off from sports because crutches don't do very well. But you can't explain it to the watch at all, because any possibility to suspend activity due to illness, injury and the like is simply missing. So now I'm swallowing a bitter pill called unfulfilled activity for the umpteenth day in a row. At the same time, everything would be sufficient to solve the above-mentioned possibility of suspending motivation for activity, for example due to illness, injury and the like.
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The second thing I'm a bit bummed about with Apple Watch activity is the fact that it's just plain stupid. The watch wants you to do the same thing over and over every day, which is fine on the one hand, but on the other hand, it's a shame that they don't adjust activity goals automatically, for example, according to your calendar or at least the Weather app and the like. In other words, if you like to run and the watch knows about you thanks to frequent running monitoring, it's a shame that on rainy days it won't allow you to take a break or just a short run to satisfy the activity rings, while on other sunny days the watch will run you more. because the weather is better for sports and maybe even more time through your calendar. After all, who else but Apple should be able to offer such an advanced connection - all the more so when it must be absolutely clear to everyone that going for a run in the pouring rain or on a day that is flooded from morning to evening with meetings recorded in the calendar is not entirely possible.
I sincerely hope that this year we will finally see a series of upgrades that will make it possible to work better with activity on the Apple Watch. The truth is that in recent weeks there have been reports that watchOS 10 will bring a lot of interesting changes to the Apple Watch, but in the case of activity, the overhaul has been talked about for a number of years, so I'm a little skeptical about any upgrades. But who knows, maybe we'll get a surprise that will wipe our eyes and make the activity on the Apple Watch much more useful all of a sudden.
Agreement. Similarly, I hate it when mindfulness in the car (connection via CarPlay, so the phone should recognize it) tells me to ignore the surroundings for a while and concentrate on my breath :-)
Basically, it's the same as when Watch tells you in the car that you should get up. It's just not possible at 130 🙃
It would be enough for me if they could change what the individual rings mean... eg. , instead of standing (without erotic subtext), I would like to set the number of steps or kilometers traveled, which makes more sense to me...etc...
Cili.. I agree, it's a relatively (and surprisingly) stupid app
I have to say that AW is a product that is starting to annoy me lately by constantly showing something. Despite gradually turning off the "beep" it makes me nervous :-)
I am signing it. My addiction to Activity ended after about 4 months, when I completely lost my sight because of the rings. I don't understand why no one at Apple has figured out that the human body needs to rest too…. The entire concept of the Activity is a difficult work in progress masquerading as a perfect product.
And you didn't realize that you needed to rest, did you? If you don't know it in yourself, you better not exercise your udder.
You hit the nail on the head. I would be quite interested in whether the Apple Watch forces women to be active during menstruation (which they have a clear record of).
It angers me from the very beginning that AW absolutely do not count on a training break, but force them to close circles every day, force an increase in active calories every week, and they do not know what overtraining is. At the same time, it can measure HRV, so it wouldn't be a problem to do something like Body Battery and a training advisor like Garmin has. After all, I've been using something like Body Battery for quite some time now, and unlike Garmin, it really shows the reality of how I feel. It's called Training Today.
AW measures HRV very imprecisely, Garmin, on the other hand, is much more accurate. AWs show several nonsensical error values even well above 200ms throughout the day and night, which greatly distorts the overall result of regeneration and readiness. See the breakdown of HRV measurements. They measured me at 8 in the morning just over 200 and I didn't really experience "nirvana" at work. My Garmin measures maybe 150 at night, and that's when I'm as relaxed as possible. FitGear Hunter made a YouTube video about it.
they are quite expensive digital devices, I would expect more from them, after 15 minutes the exercise is activated and it asks me if I am really exercising? and they simply do not record the walking distance of those 15 minutes in retrospect
Agreed, for me it led to me selling them… after 3 months and turning off all the buzzers, I realized that buying them was a big mistake…