Congratulations to you sir for not succumbing to peer (or watch) pressure and exercising. Some of us shall fight this unruly trend!
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Apple Watch Leading to Healthy Lifestyle Changes Among Early Adopters
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Congratulations to you sir for not succumbing to peer (or watch) pressure and exercising. Some of us shall fight this unruly trend!
With my Polar M400 and H7 heart rate sensor, I get very accurate heart rate numbers, amongst other health related tracking. It is also water resistant to 30 meters, has notifications, movement prompts, customization, and updates via software.
I am not going to list all the features of the watch but, for less than $180.00, I have a GPS watch and fitness tracker that does a lot more than the Apple watch, not to mention accurately and at a much lower cost.
I am sure many here could make such posts.
For the price and accuracy via the health front, I think the Apple watch is still an overpriced novelty. Should that change in subsequent models, I will reassess the value of the Apple watch in my life.
I am not going to list all the features of the watch but, for less than $180.00, I have a GPS watch and fitness tracker that does a lot more than the Apple watch, not to mention accurately and at a much lower cost.
I am sure many here could make such posts.
For the price and accuracy via the health front, I think the Apple watch is still an overpriced novelty. Should that change in subsequent models, I will reassess the value of the Apple watch in my life.
He's also much older. Sorry that you feel the need to project your personal lack of dedication to your own health to everyone else though.
Just eat an apple a day no electronics need it.
Let me know when you use those devices to pay at the register when you buy your post-workout meal, and then when they alert you to upcoming appointments, or let you check your bank balances, etc. For what is essentially a dollar a day, I see huge value out of the watch.
The article and my post was about health. A lot of your post wasn't.
I didn't say the Apple watch didn't have value or wasn't helpful to people. I said it was lacking on the health front in more than one way, compared to the Polar M400.
If I want to make or check appointments, check bank balances and the like, I use my iPhone for such things, when I am out and about.
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It's not saying that you stood for 5 hours, but that you stood during 5 hour periods. You only have to stand for a couple of minutes during an hour to get credit. It's supposed to help people from sitting constantly for hours on end.
You misread my post. The Apple Watch is one solution (not "the" solution) to exercise motivation.
Obviously you still need the treadmill, or the stairs, or the jog down the street. You're talking as if people think the Watch replaces exercise, which makes no sense. Nobody thinks that. It motivates exercise.
I was active well before the watch. The watch honestly doesn't make me a single bit more aware, it just tells me useless things like "its time to stand up!" while I am in my car driving. That and the app used to tracking activity is horrible. It takes FOREVER to respond to taps and auto closes when you're done with an activity. Sorry, but I can close the app without the help of the app "thinking" that is what I want to do.
Overall, the watch for me is starting to become a "meh" device. Apple should focus more on polish, really tired of buggy releases.
Overall, the watch for me is starting to become a "meh" device. Apple should focus more on polish, really tired of buggy releases.
I like how you project your own dislikes onto everyone else just because you can't possibly fathom others liking their Apple Watch. I've had mine on for 3 months now, and I don't ever see it going into a drawer. It's become a big part of my daily routine, and that isn't changing anytime soon.
Has your lifestyle been to the doctor lately? I think not. I believe the word is healthful.![]()
Less than four months after the Apple Watch launched, many early adopters are finding that the wrist-worn device has motivated them to make healthy lifestyle changes. From walking and exercising more often to making healthier choices and playing more sports, market research firm Wristly found that many Apple Watch buyers are taking full advantage of the wearable's health and fitness features.
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More than 75% of survey participants among Wristly's panel of nearly 1000 Apple Watch buyers indicated that they "Strongly Agree" or "Agree" that they have been standing more since receiving the Apple Watch. Similarly, 67% of participants agreed that they walk more, 59% agreed they make better health choices and 57% said they exercise more often with the Apple Watch.
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Early adopters are generally satisfied with the Apple Watch's health and fitness features, especially those included stock on the device. An aggregate 89% of survey participants were either "Very Satisfied" or "Satisfied" with the built-in Activity app, while around 80% were satisfied with the heart rate sensor and hourly standup reminders and just over 75% were satisfied with the Workout app.
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Jim Dalrymple of The Loop echoed similar sentiments in his Apple Watch review in June, in which he shared his personal story about losing 40 pounds using HealthKit and Apple Watch. After ten months of exercising, weight lifting and healthier eating decisions, Dalrymple lost four pant sizes and two shirt sizes, and the Apple Watch kept him motivated to reach his goals:Making healthy lifestyle changes requires consistency, and Wristly found that many early adopters are still wearing the Apple Watch regularly. 86% of survey participants said they are still wearing the Apple Watch on a daily basis, while 12.3% wear it on most days, 1.3% go several days without wearing one and three respondents reported that they no longer wear the Apple Watch.
While the Apple Watch is certainly not the only wearable device motivating people to get in shape, the Move, Exercise and Stand rings, workout summaries, achievement badges, progress updates, personalized feedback and its other health and fitness features appear to have challenged early adopters in ways they did not expect.
Wristly is the largest independent Apple Watch research platform with an opt-in panel of around 1000 Apple Watch buyers. The research firm recently found the Apple Watch to have a 97% customer satisfaction rate, a number that Apple CEO Tim Cook cited during the company's recent third quarter earnings results conference call.
Article Link: Apple Watch Leading to Healthy Lifestyle Changes Among Early Adopters
This. I am much more in tune with what I am doing fitness wise on a daily basis and have lost weight, my clothes are fitting better and I just feel better. In short, it has gently encouraged me to be more active on a daily basis. So . . . for me, the fitness trackers are a nice push to keep me moving, especially in retirement, when I am more prone to sit and lay for longer periods of time.
I'm sure the same could be said for that new treadmill or exercise bike that someone received for Christmas one year which now sits in the basement collecting dust and cobwebs.
Exactly, they need to do this survey in about a year to really see how the watch has affected the early adopters. It is too early to say anything now.
Worst excuse I've heard yet. I don't think Apple has the slightest intention of releasing a revamped model of Apple Watch* hardware until there are BIG advances on several fronts of technology that promise to make the product totally different than the one out now. I believe they are treating this like the "unibody" technology -- no significant hardware changes planned for the foreseeable, upgrades mostly handled through software or incremental internal changes. The Apple Watch isn't an iPhone that changes design every two years.
*I'm excluding the possibility of Apple offering a new metal casing or some other non-revolutionary additional models using the existing design.
Can you and your health really afford to wait another four or five years for this alleged "Apple Watch 2"?
I'm sure the same could be said for that new treadmill or exercise bike that someone received for Christmas one year which now sits in the basement collecting dust and cobwebs.
I disagree. While I've only had my Apple Watch since launch (and have worn it daily) I had a FitBit before that, and wore it daily too. Wearables are different.
It's not telling you that you stood for 5 hours. It's telling you that you stood up and moved around for 1 minute in every hour for 5 hours.
Apple Watch is not a watch. It's a device, a mini Ipod you strap to your wrist. Nothing else, nothing more. I'd be stupid for Apple to treat it any different. This is not some fancy watch with precise gearing that's suppose to last decades. Technology changes fast, things get smaller, faster, better. 4, 5 years? By then this Apple Watch will be a relic.
Not really sure how it's different than projecting one's dedication to their own health to everyone else. I don't know why anyone should care. Are you gluten free, too?
