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August Activity Challenge
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Double my Move goal 14 times. My Move goal is currently set at 600, so this might actually be challenging.
1750 exercise minutes, or about 56 minutes a day. At least I can go back to swimming rather than being out in the heat.
My august challenge is to close the stand ring every day this month. Being doing this for 7 of the last 9 months.
I wish I could see my August goal but every since achieving my July goal on the 31st, I haven’t been able to access the Awards tab in the Activity app. This happened last year, but I can’t remember how I remedied the issue, I think I just waited for an iOS/WatchOS update
While it’s not my August Challenge, I’d thought I’d share this: 502 days ago I bought my first Apple Watch. 2 days later, after figuring out how it works, I started to close all three rings. I started out at 650 calories per day, and quickly rose to 1,000. Every day since that second day of owning an Apple Watch, for 500 days in-a-row, I have closed all three rings. Even on my wedding day, on my wife’s and my honeymoon, through sickness and terrible weather, I have found ways to get those derned rings closed! Today I hit my 500th move ring closed as well as 500th move ring in a row. Now on to 1,000!
Wow, I thought mine was bad last month at 1900. Managed to hit mine with a couple of days to spare.
I’m so far 66.9 miles in out of 333.2 miles. Now I need 9.86 miles a day to complete my challenge. That’s better than the 10.78 I needed at first.
I can’t see what my August challenge is.
I check my rewards page but there is nothing in there indicating any challenges.
I check my rewards page but there is nothing in there indicating any challenges.
I feel a little bad posting this so soon. Got back from my evening bike ride about 20 minutes ago. That finished my exercise ring for the day. Other rings were already done. Then I got this:
Followed by this:
Here’s what I was aiming for:
All I have to say now is YO ADRIAN!! I DID IT!!
Followed by this:
Here’s what I was aiming for:
All I have to say now is YO ADRIAN!! I DID IT!!
Ugh. The last 5 months’ goals have been alternating for me between calories and exercise minutes.
Achieve xxx total exercise minutes or achieve xxx total calories.
Each month I make it, but in doing so I increase both my calories and exercise minutes which then get bumped up against me for the next months’ goal. I can’t earn calories without exercise minutes and vice versa!! Eventually this will be unattainable.
For once I would like a month that remains flat!!
My goal is to get every months’ goal for this calendar year as well as perfect closed rings every day. So far so good....
Achieve xxx total exercise minutes or achieve xxx total calories.
Each month I make it, but in doing so I increase both my calories and exercise minutes which then get bumped up against me for the next months’ goal. I can’t earn calories without exercise minutes and vice versa!! Eventually this will be unattainable.
For once I would like a month that remains flat!!
My goal is to get every months’ goal for this calendar year as well as perfect closed rings every day. So far so good....
I honestly do not like that and never challenge them. Apple need to let multiple people challenge each other. I’m always challenging the same person and always beat them.
It’s hard but keeps me motivated by trying to beat them. Had Apple Watch since April, but only started using activity app this month. I thought it was just a gimmick but it’s really keeping me motivated.
My August challenge was to work out at least 30 minutes 10 times, which I already completed. Easy month lol, but trying to perfect every month from now til end of year.
My July challenge was difficult enough — 3,730 minutes of exercise — but I still managed to beat it.
This August challenge, though, is ridiculous. No way am I going to log 350 miles this month, not in this extreme heat.
I realize that these challenges are probably based on some generic algorithm, but Apple needs to take into consideration the weather conditions where the user is based. My watch (and, by extension, Apple) "knows" I'm in Japan, where the daytime highs are around 35 degrees C (with a heat index of 40 degrees C), the overnight lows rarely dipping below an uncomfortable 28 degrees C, and relative humidity between 60 and 70 percent. Certainly that can be factored into the algorithm.
I have my Move goal set at 1,000 calories. I haven't changed it all year. I didn't pick that number arbitrarily. Besides being a round number, on a normal workday, it requires the equivalent of a 5-mile run in addition to normal daily activities. I do more than that most days, but that was a baseline I wanted at the beginning of the year. (Trends in the iOS 13 Activity app says that my 90-day average is 1,476.)
I agree. The challenges are occasionally interesting, but they are not well thought out for folks who exercise a lot or who have specific programs. They increase without limit and don't take into account training cycles. I have a marathon on September 8, and knowing my luck, my September challenge will be running/walking miles again, even though I won't run for at least 5 days after the marathon. (I can row and bike.)Ugh. The last 5 months’ goals have been alternating for me between calories and exercise minutes.
Achieve xxx total exercise minutes or achieve xxx total calories.
Each month I make it, but in doing so I increase both my calories and exercise minutes which then get bumped up against me for the next months’ goal. I can’t earn calories without exercise minutes and vice versa!! Eventually this will be unattainable.
For once I would like a month that remains flat!!
My goal is to get every months’ goal for this calendar year as well as perfect closed rings every day. So far so good....
It would be nice to have some degree of flexibility in the challenges, perhaps a choice of challenges each month.
My challenge this month is to close all rings 31 times. That challenge, at least, cannot increase.
I feel for you. I live in Hawaii and this season has been the worse. It gets to around 80-82 degrees Fahrenheit and humidity is around 75-80 as well.