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August 2025 Activity Challenge.
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walking or running 2.42 miles 14 times this month
Mine was along the lines of:
Let me remind you, Cupertino — I control my watch; I don’t let it control me! 😎
“You closed your Exercise ring 28 times last month. Close it 30 times this month.” 🙈
Sorry, Apple! 28 is more than enough.Let me remind you, Cupertino — I control my watch; I don’t let it control me! 😎
what watchOS version are you on? This sounds like pre-watchos10 behavior ...
I’d better get cracking on this as we are two days in and I’ve not achieved it yet
Dang didn’t realise I hit the record for this one
Another challenge completed! And while on vacation. 
My challenge for this month is a few short swimming sessions. The problem is, I don't really have access to a pool. 🥲
if you have a friends house or a cousins house that has one ask them if you can come over and have a pool party. Or utilize the hotel pool if you’re travelling and soak up the sun
Halfway through mines but a trial pass at the gym is helping me get it done faster.
Got the record of ten treadmill runs today.
Got the record of ten treadmill runs today.
A day late due to the hip injury one morning.
For someone who works out a lot, isn’t 481 Kcal kind of low? I’d have thought you’d be doing a lot more than that every day. My average over the last year is 1145 Kcal a day. But I’m probably 3 times your age!
I do not go by kilocalories. My units in the activity app is in regular cals.
Okay. I wasn’t aware you could change them. I thought your numbers looked low for a gym person.
Exactly. Even your height can change units to metric too and weight from pounds to kilograms depending on where you are in the world
This is where you switch it. Tap on your Apple ID profile picture in the activity app.
Capital-C "Calories" are 1000 "regular" small-c "calories", which makes capital-C Calories and kilocalories the same thing. (If you switch between them in the Activity app they show the same total.)
Fascinating. I knew you could swap to miles for runs etc (although annoyingly it still rewards you based on 5k or 10k even though its set to miles!). Didn't know you could switch up the energy units. Now if I just understood the difference between the 3!
You can. Even for pools I switch to meters as I have to estimate or know the length of the pool to accurately measure the laps while I swim