Do you always track every move you make?

[Ketsjap]

Most of the time I start registering a work-out when I use my bike. When I'm cycling to the train station, to the store,... Those are no real "workouts", but it is some kind of activity and I want it to be registered, to close my rings.

However, it kinda swamps my workout-stats with many non-workout activities.

How do you guys go about this? Start a work-out for every activity, or do you track "real" workouts only?

 

[Lihp8270]

Most of the time I start registering a work-out when I use my bike. When I'm cycling to the train station, to the store,... Those are no real "workouts", but it is some kind of activity and I want it to be registered, to close my rings.

However, it kinda swamps my workout-stats with many non-workout activities.

How do you guys go about this? Start a work-out for every activity, or do you track "real" workouts only?

You don’t need it tracked as a workout to close your rings.

Elevated heart rates will close your exercise ring, and the movement ring is well self explanatory.

So if you’re tracking that activity to close your rings. There’s no need to do so.

 

[DMG35]

^^^^What this member said above. Your watch will pay attention to what you are doing and register the movement towards your move rings.

Example - Yesterday I worked out in the morning doing weight training and it registered the workout using the workout app. It said I burned around 500 calories for the workout. I have my move ring set to 1200 calories per day. I then went to the beach and played volleyball for several hours while wearing my Apple Watch Ultra. By the end of playing volleyball I had burned well over 2000 calories without ever registering it as a workout.

 

[Night Spring]

Actually, cycling might not register much to close the Move ring, as your wrist doesn't move much when holding onto the handle bar. So you'd get a lot more credit toward calorie count if you cycle while running a cycling workout, as opposed to just cycling with your watch on. And if you are just cycling at a relaxed pace to the store, your heart rate might not get elevated enough to close the Exercise ring, either.

So OP's problem is that they are doing a specific type of activity that doesn't register toward closing the rings unless they do start a workout. One solution might be to delete the "not really workout" workouts while keeping the data. It does involve some extra steps, though.

 

[Pixels7]

So OP's problem is that they are doing a specific type of activity that doesn't register toward closing the rings unless they do start a workout. One solution might be to delete the "not really workout" workouts while keeping the data. It does involve some extra steps, though.

Is this as simple as removing the work out in the health app and then choose ‘only delete work out’? (I have my phone in another language, so not sure what it says in English)

 

[Night Spring]

Is this as simple as removing the work out in the health app and then choose ‘only delete work out’? (I have my phone in another language, so not sure what it says in English)

Yes, that's what I meant.

 

[azhava]

I only track actual workouts. Everything else I just let the AW catch as Move/Exercise minutes outside of workouts.