Activity app and cycling

[apocalyarts]

After a few days of using my Apple Watch I am not entirely sure, if the Activity app works really well.

As you might know, you hav to walk, stand and train a specific amount per day to achieve your goal. I usually cycle to work and I have the strange feeling that my Watch registered that as simple walking. After three days, I took the tram to work. As a result, the training meter progressed a lot more than when I was cycling.

What's your experience with cycling? Anything I can do to calibrate / adjust the activity settings?

 

[Julien]

After a few days of using my Apple Watch I am not entirely sure, if the Activity app works really well.

As you might know, you hav to walk, stand and train a specific amount per day to achieve your goal. I usually cycle to work and I have the strange feeling that my Watch registered that as simple walking. After three days, I took the tram to work. As a result, the training meter progressed a lot more than when I was cycling.

What's your experience with cycling? Anything I can do to calibrate / adjust the activity settings?

So you select Outdoor Cycle on the Workout app and ride and when you look the Watch the Workout App is using Outdoor Walking instead?

 

[apocalyarts]

No, I don't use the workout app at all, just the normal activity app.

 

[lah]

I find my Apple Watch just as accurate as my Gramin 510 w/ heart rate strap. Gramin just has more detailed info in the software.

 

[Julien]

No, I don't use the workout app at all, just the normal activity app.

There is NO Normal Activity app. If you want the Watch to accurately record a cycling activity then you must use the Workout App.

 

[friedmud]

Yep: start an Outdoor Cycling Workout... it does a good job on my commute.

 

[aarontsuru]

After a few days of using my Apple Watch I am not entirely sure, if the Activity app works really well.

As you might know, you hav to walk, stand and train a specific amount per day to achieve your goal. I usually cycle to work and I have the strange feeling that my Watch registered that as simple walking. After three days, I took the tram to work. As a result, the training meter progressed a lot more than when I was cycling.

What's your experience with cycling? Anything I can do to calibrate / adjust the activity settings?

I'm a cyclist and runner. When you think about it, there's really no way for a watch to "know" you are cycling. You arms are pretty still, your body is jostling just a little, and your heart rate is up. That's about it. It will measure your heart rate every now and again, but that's not much use.

The workout app does a good job since once it's going, it's constantly measuring your heart rate and uses the GPS to know you are moving, how fast, etc. I actually use it in conjunction with iSmoothRun on the phone to get more indepth tracking. I'm hopeful that once that or Strava are updated to utilize OS2, that I can go down to 1 app.

 

[iMacDragon]

Indeed, there's no real good automated way to detect you're cycling without being a big battery hog ( gps always on, etc ), so you always have to manually tell it via workout app if you want it registered and tracked properly.

 

[MrAppleMan71]

After a few days of using my Apple Watch I am not entirely sure, if the Activity app works really well.

As you might know, you hav to walk, stand and train a specific amount per day to achieve your goal. I usually cycle to work and I have the strange feeling that my Watch registered that as simple walking. After three days, I took the tram to work. As a result, the training meter progressed a lot more than when I was cycling.

What's your experience with cycling? Anything I can do to calibrate / adjust the activity settings?

Personally I have been cycling with the Apple Watch for almost 4 Months now. Runtastic Pro can now track / transfer and show you heart rate data in App while tracking on your watch. LOVE IT!! Now I always take my phone on a mount on my handle bar neck and watch my heart rate on the watch. But I have tried Strava, and several others. Settled on Runtastic due to not having to buy any other hardware to get my heart data. Only trick... you have to open the app on the phone, and on the watch. Then start the activity on the watch / finish on the watch.

Other than that... Loving it, VERY accurate for me and calories almost MATCH my other tests with other devices for time / distance / and elevation for the training.

Best!

 

[Mtmspa]

If I am going to do anything more than a casual stroll, I use the workout app for walking, cycling and basketball.