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Apple Encourages People to Get Moving in New 'Close Your Rings' Apple Watch Ad
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It seems very accurate. I have been using it in the last 2.5 months and I always swim for 1hr and the lap count is pretty consistent all the way. What make it change is the average pace that I can see it gives me more laps when I am feeling good and swimming faster.
The only data I am not 100% sure is the heart rate. It fluctuates quite a bit.
Overall, I am pleased. I like the AW quite a lot for workouts and another feature I like is unlocking my Mac after sleep mode.
so if you jump off the bridge we should too?
okay how about real metrics here people..
what is your body fat ?
steps don't mean jack guys. it's not a metric of fitness.
guess how many steps i have today? only 11k
That doesn't account that i had a 40 mile 3600 ft climb bike ride.
so you can take your rings and shove it apple.
Rings have nothing to do with steps. They have to do with calories, which are based on heart rate. Hence, your 40 mile bike ride would blow the rings out of the park.
I've used mine for skiing, biking, and many other intense activities where my arms weren't doing much work compared to my legs. My activity was captured just fine because my heart rate was elevated. Apple built a lab to research many different activities, testing several thousand hours worth of various exercises, and they focused on calories instead of steps for a reason. They already acknowledge that steps are a silly metric, which is why they aren't at the forefront of the data that is shown to you.
Nice try, though.
how about my pizza>? they have a ring for that?
Do you know what a calorie is by chance and how it's used? And I mean legitimately,please don't respond with some silly rant you made up as did you earlier.
@ILuvEggplant. Any response? Crickets....
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Once you enter in the length of the pool, it is fairly accurate - as you stated - not 100%. The watch sometimes has a lag before it increments the count (after a lap or even a few). I have had it not increment up to 5 laps, then all of a sudden, BAM!
Hipsters would know to use an UltraStar or a Pulsar, not a Frisbee.
That's what I have heard. That's impressive and then the water ejection mode once you're completed is ingenious too.
It's not genius, it's product placement. To sum it up, Beats markerting with apple products.
Great. Could someone motivate Apple to make the thing a little more accurate then while they're at it? Kind of sick of it being 200 calories behind my Precor elliptical after an hour long session. I have to shake it to read my heart rate sometimes as well, as I'll check it periodically only to see it register my heart rate at 60 when I'm going full tilt. That's my only gripe with WatchOS 3: it seems a lot less accurate tracking my workouts than OS 2 was.
I've found the rings not to be terribly motivational. I'm fairly active and I don't need to see closed circles to know I've accomplished anything. I purposely take a day off from exercising to give my body rest, so right there I miss out on closing the circle.
An unfortunately named campaign title. Sounds like they're advising against flatulence. Oh dear. Images of athletic models wearing the Apple Wrist Weight suggesting they got like that by wearing 'Tim's Folly' alone will.convince only the naive and optimistic. Me? I've already cut my carbs in half in 2017-with a pizza slicer!
My, and my husband's, Apple Watches have been terrible with activity ring accuracy since the last update. With light activity throughout the day, the rings are closing MUCH faster than they should be. We've also experienced battery life issues once in a while. Something's definitely way off.
We both have Gen 1 42mm Sports.
We both have Gen 1 42mm Sports.
Does anyone actually have time for that? The reminder always pops up when I am in the middle of something and I just end up dismissing it anyways.
I can close the move and stand rings with no problem. It's that pesky middle green ring that I never can close. Apparently it requires something called "exercise".
In all seriousness even when I exercise that ring barely moves and I'm sweating up a storm.
I think my watch is a masochist.
In all seriousness even when I exercise that ring barely moves and I'm sweating up a storm.
I think my watch is a masochist.
Pure genius. And with the margins on those gold phones, Apple made money on them even if they sold in very limited numbers. And Johnny Ivy got to play with gold.
Last time I checked, Apple didn't make any of those things.
I tried using it for the first couple of weeks but the novelty soon wore off.
I couldn't agree more. I've always struggled with exercise and as a freelancer who works from home it's really easy to get into the habit of not moving around much. This device has been a game changer!