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I find with walking, pretty much ANYTHING less than a even brisk walk will not count. If I am with the wife and kids forget it. It wants arms swinging too, if you hold hands you can kiss the green ring goodbye. Not suited for romantic walks.

I like using the double click of the crown to toggle between the workout app and the activity app, to check how the green ring is going. (it does often lag, and then update in a batch)

Good luck with your ankle, I had a rough few months with ankle soreness when I was trying to lift my step count last year. Felt very old!

Thanks. It's some sort of Achilles tendonitis. So fun!

I think I've figured out that if you're actually moving -- walking, running -- the watch will sometimes give you credit depending on heart rate, pace, etc. But earlier tonight when doing a stationary bike, I think I found out that you MUST turn on the Workout app to get exercise and calories burned credit. I got done at about 11:45 and thought that was enough to hit all of my marks, but I was one minute of exercise shy and about 60 calories shy. I had stopped the Workout app already. I kept going for a couple of minutes and know that the exercise wasn't counted, and I don't think the calories were either. I guess as far as it was concerned I was having a heart attack.

So I thought I'd let people know about this. If you're doing anything like biking or stair machine, use the Workout app. I'm not sure how a treadmill would respond since you're kind of running in place. But man I got to cranking on that bike to hit my mark and did at 11:59.
 
i will.... and if you get yours.... let us know!
Finally got the 4th damn workout star. I figured it out. After you do 5 calories based sessions the calorie session you do has to be more calories then your max to get the award. For example, I did a calorie workout of indoor cycling. My most calories had been 175 on that workout. I set the calirie goal for 200 then did my workout until I achieved 200. Then I got the award ... HTH.
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It did motivate me for a bit, until I had to restore my iPhone and my Watch didn't backup properly, leading to the loss of all the awards I earned...

It's kind of put me off, as I know how active I am and if the Watch can't be relied on to store the data, I don't really see a need to complete a ring if I'm just short.
 
It did motivate me for a bit, until I had to restore my iPhone and my Watch didn't backup properly, leading to the loss of all the awards I earned...

Cam I ask if you unpaired the watch before restore?

I did before I restored my phone yesterday, and it was needed as I had to repair and restore from a backup.

Worked fine, but I really think they should have a system where this is automatic and bullet proof. Losing data and achievements is demotivating as you say.

Get well soon!

Thanks! Now I am inverting my goals and seeing how damn little I can do I a day.
 
Cam I ask if you unpaired the watch before restore?

I did before I restored my phone yesterday, and it was needed as I had to repair and restore from a backup.

Worked fine, but I really think they should have a system where this is automatic and bullet proof. Losing data and achievements is demotivating as you say.



Thanks! Now I am inverting my goals and seeing how damn little I can do I a day.

No, I didn't. I did a backup of my phone to my computer (presuming that would also backup my watch data) and restored via DFU as my 6 Plus was constantly crashing. I then set up the iPhone and restored from my backup I had made just before I restored it, but when I went to set up my watch, I was presented only with an option to restore from a backup in April (which incidentally wouldn't work as it was a backup of Watch OS 1.0) or a backup from a minute ago which was blank.

It was a shame as I'd earned a fair few of the achievements, and while I'm sure I'll eventually get back to where I was, I don't have the same motivation to close the rings any more.
 
Lol.. I earned 7 awards on Sunday alone... Fallout Boy's "Light 'em Up" keeps coming to mind every time I see the award screen :). On my way to a perfect month!
 

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Perfect month is a good start, now let's shoot for a perfect year ;). Even when the newness wears off, keep it up!
 
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