Health and Fitness
The Apple Watch can track a wide range of workouts, lock out water, and motivate you
YOUR APPLE WATCH doesn’t just have a pretty face. From walking to weight training, hiking to high–intensity interval training, swimming to skydiving, your Watch is the perfect companion for every kind of activity. Well, maybe not skydiving.
The Series 6 has a gyroscope, an accelerometer, GPS, altimeter, compass, blood O2 sensor and a heart rate sensor, and they can track all kinds of health information from how vigorously you’re exercising to how oxygenated your blood is, how many stairs you’ve climbed today and how much loud noise you’ve been exposed to. That makes it ideal for tracking all kinds of data, which then feeds into the Health and Fitness apps so you can track your progress over time and identify triggers and trends.
While your Apple Watch does all the work, its data gets sent to your iPhone; sleep data and vital signs are sent to the Health app and activity data to it and to the Fitness app.
Your Apple Watch automatically tracks three goals in Activity on your watch and Fitness in your phone; daily calories burned, daily exercise minutes, and daily hours spent standing. You can change all three daily goals in Activity by scrolling to the bottom and tapping on Change Goals.
Your Apple Watch can help you get a better night’s sleep, and help you to wake up in the morning.
The Watch’s sleep app enables you to set sleep goals, arrange audible or vibrating alarms and turn on sleep mode at specific times, and it tracks your sleep activity too. You can create multiple schedules so the weekday alarms don’t go off at the weekend, and you can also set Bedtime to have a wind–down time where it simplifies your Watch display and goes into Do Not Disturb before you go to bed every night. Of course, if you’re wearing your Apple Watch you’re not charging it. We actually pop our Watch on its charger when we get up; by the time we’ve showered and breakfasted it’s fully charged for the day and night ahead.