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Apple Watch to Offer Activity Challenge on Earth Day

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Apple Watch users will once again be able to complete an Activity Challenge on Earth Day to earn a special badge and iMessage stickers.

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To complete the Activity Challenge, users must do any workout for 30 minutes or longer on April 22, according to Apple. As usual, the workout can be recorded in the Fitness app or in any app that can send data to the Health app.

"Let's get moving and celebrate the planet," the Activity Challenge will say when it becomes visible to Apple Watch users a few days prior to Earth Day.

Apple Watch users who complete the Activity Challenge will unlock a special badge in the Fitness app, along with a series of animated stickers that can be used in the Messages and FaceTime apps. We are able to preview what the stickers look like below.

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Article Link: Apple Watch to Offer Activity Challenge on Earth Day
 
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The art is cool, but when would you ever use these stickers in a text?

The world cup, maybe? But how is this relevant for earth day? Aren't fields of grass incredibly wasteful?
 
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ned1 said:
Do people really need to be rewarded to get off their arses and exercise….Get a life?
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Gamification (merging game with a challenge) is always good to cheer someone or give a twist to start exercising a bit better. Personally I felt like a robot with Amazfit steps counter when on Apple Watch it’s always something doing and a reward of closing the circles is still happy for me. Yeah, I am fat hobbit after HO and Covid - 32 BMI
 
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addamas said:
Gamification (merging game with a challenge) is always good to cheer someone or give a twist to start exercising a bit better. Personally I felt like a robot with Amazfit steps counter when on Apple Watch it’s always something doing and a reward of closing the circles is still happy for me. Yeah, I am fat hobbit after HO and Covid - 32 BMI
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Agreed. It is true that research has shown that gamification decreases baseline engagement after the game ends relative to those that never participated in the reward payout. However, if you can maintain engagement over an extended period, as Apple has done with the badges, then the individual will benefit more in the long run.

This is even more important with younger people, as we have seen significant advantages to lifelong health in adolescents that engage in regular exercise. Being active when young has significant health benefits that extend into adulthood, even if their activity level decreases. I can't speak to being forced by an authority figure to participate in athletics vs gamification, but my hunch is that it doesn't matter.
 
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These little challenges that Apple offers on specific days during the year really keep the Apple Watch kind of unique in terms of keeping the user ‘semi challenged’ if they want to accept it. Some people don’t have the benefit of working out with a partner or having somebody challenge them, and this is actually a useful tool in that sense to have ‘fun’ with it.
 
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Complex757 said:
Friday's are normally my rest days
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So, push yourself that extra mile then. It’s all to easy to make excuses. Isn’t that what physical challenges is all about? (Rhetorical) I agree ‘Rest days’ are equally important for recovery, but why not take this one day of the year and make something out of it, or implement something different into your workout. Just a suggestion.
 
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ned1 said:
Do people really need to be rewarded to get off their arses and exercise….Get a life?
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This is like saying …

Do people really need a birthday cake when young on their bornday?
Do people really need presents on their BDay, Anniversary, on Hannukah or Christmas, or a coffin when buried?
Do people really need tombstone?
Do people really need new clothes, a watch, a TV, an XBox/Playstation?
Do people really need a raise?!
Do people really need $1 million in stock options after 2yrs as a CEO/CIO/COO/CFO?
Do people really need to own a house if it can remain in their family name up to 100yrs (in Canada; supposedly)?
Do people really need to have more than one car?
Do people need beer, drink or a Mary-Jane after a hard working day?
Do you really need a kiss or have intimacy with your significant other on ANY given day?

See how ridiculous this all sounds? YES people do for a lot of things to reward themselves. It makes the effort fun and worth repeating to have consistent and residual positive effects on life.

Else we’d be all miserable, negative, hating, controlling and well life would just not be worth living.
 
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alexandr said:
I've found the AW to be a great motivation. Not everyone's as highly motivated as you... :)
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High motivation doesn‘t really come into it. Some people just like to have fun or a reward. Some would like to SHARE such rewards vs bragging about what they did to help entice others that need that push, that had succumb to the hum-drum of their day, some may have fell into a pandemic rot.
 
4jasontv said:
The art is cool, but when would you ever use these stickers in a text?

The world cup, maybe? But how is this relevant for earth day? Aren't fields of grass incredibly wasteful?
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what?

Do you know what’s under the grass with the soul? What holds the soul and helps plants have its nutrition? How is it relevant … here is simple elementry teaching you may have forgotten.

What do plants breath?
What do humans and animals breath?

Each filters what it exhails vs the hydro/carbon-monoxides and other huge carbon based pollutants in our air we all breath and take for granted. Have a google search for the 30yrs and see just how bad one countries huge former dependence on coal burning for energy affected other countries across the globe, because well air circulates across the globe.

it’s not just about our own or your own fitness … its about reducing our carbon footprint and affect on the planet even just 1 day could be significant the more people around the world contribute towards a less fossil fuel consumption.
 
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High motivation doesn‘t really come into it. Some people just like to have fun or a reward. Some would like to SHARE such rewards vs bragging about what they did to help entice others that need that push, that had succumb to the hum-drum of their day, some may have fell into a pandemic rot.
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For sure. I also share my progress with some of my friends. When I see that someone closed their rings, I say — you F$#K and go do some sit-ups :D
 
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alexandr said:
For sure. I also share my progress with some of my friends. When I see that someone closed their rings, I say — you F$#K and go do some sit-ups :D
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It’s great you have friends that workout and use iOS.
Most of my friends are on Android uggh. The guys workout but I cannot challenge them outside the gym: many drive cars since age 16 and don’t have early childhood sports habits/backgrounds. The girls dont’ really lift weights only cardio and they dont’ share their progress within the guys (even the one’s their hitched to, I don’t get it).
 
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