Gym Watch

[bbeagle]

The gym is the worst place to wear a watch. If you're lifting or doing yoga, the last thing you need is more jewelry or anything to constrict your body. You don't want to be wearing it when you're doing pushups, lifting weights, using a machine, etc.

You're just going to whack your watch at a metal bar and cry you scratched your watch.

I've work a watch my entire life. I wear it to the gym all the time. The band wears out, and needs to be replaced every few years, but the watch face has never been scratched.

If you're hitting the back of your wrist (where the face of the watch is) on anything, you're doing something wrong. I'm grabbing weights with my hands, not the back of my wrist. Every once in a while, I reach through somewhere (like between 2 bars to set weights), and occasionally my watch face hits something, but it won't crack or scratch it! The materials are made well enough.

I _have_ scratched a band before - but it's just part of the deal, I don't care if that looks pristine or not - it's going to age. My leather watch band looks great the first year, showing some wear in the next 6 months, a lot of wear the next 3 months, then atrocious in the next few months until I replace it. But I'm just buying cheap $19 - $29 leather bands. I'd imagine the Apple Watch leather band would hold up better.

 

[8CoreWhore]

The problem with the Watch connecting to a router at a gym or Starbucks, etc, is it would be difficult to choose among many available connections, then put in a password.

When would people want to connect to a wifi router while they don't have their iPhone with them?

And if you do have your iPhone with you, why not just connect directly to it, especially since putting in a password on the Watch would be near impossible?

Joggers might head out with Watch without the iPhone - but the features that jogger uses would not need wifi, nor would there be an available signal.

Gym goers might want the iPhone in a locker and connect to it with Watch - but would be out of range, so going over the gym's router would be needed for that, but again, you'd need to put in a password, and Apple probably thinks is too rare of a need to support it.

Spotify or similar? Possibly, why not? If it was currently possible, the developers would then be saying it was supported. So 3rd party is out.

Maybe some day, but it just seems complex and low priority for Apple.

 

[Runt888]

The problem with the Watch connecting to a router at a gym or Starbucks, etc, is it would be difficult to choose among many available connections, then put in a password.

When would people want to connect to a wifi router while they don't have their iPhone with them?

And if you do have your iPhone with you, why not just connect directly to it, especially since putting in a password on the Watch would be near impossible?

Joggers might head out with Watch without the iPhone - but the features that jogger uses would not need wifi, nor would there be an available signal.

Gym goers might want the iPhone in a locker and connect to it with Watch - but would be out of range, so going over the gym's router would be needed for that, but again, you'd need to put in a password, and Apple probably thinks is too rare of a need to support it.

Spotify or similar? Possibly, why not? If it was currently possible, the developers would then be saying it was supported. So 3rd party is out.

Maybe some day, but it just seems complex and low priority for Apple.

Most people who think the watch will connect to a network are assuming that the watch will automatically get the login details from the phone. It's an incorrect assumption and won't work in many cases.

Other than that, I agree that it makes much more sense for the watch to connect directly to the phone.

 

[hemolyzer]

Anyone know how far the watch can be from the iPhone and continue to stay connected?

27.3 inches.

 

[tgi]

27.3 inches.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Ries]

I've work a watch my entire life. I wear it to the gym all the time. The band wears out, and needs to be replaced every few years, but the watch face has never been scratched.

If you're hitting the back of your wrist (where the face of the watch is) on anything, you're doing something wrong. I'm grabbing weights with my hands, not the back of my wrist. Every once in a while, I reach through somewhere (like between 2 bars to set weights), and occasionally my watch face hits something, but it won't crack or scratch it! The materials are made well enough.

I _have_ scratched a band before - but it's just part of the deal, I don't care if that looks pristine or not - it's going to age. My leather watch band looks great the first year, showing some wear in the next 6 months, a lot of wear the next 3 months, then atrocious in the next few months until I replace it. But I'm just buying cheap $19 - $29 leather bands. I'd imagine the Apple Watch leather band would hold up better.

Do you even lift? You're telling me it is not going to hit the watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRb5s2lOxV8

 

[Fireproof!]

Do you even lift? You're telling me it is not going to hit the watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRb5s2lOxV8

LOL. Not everyone uses kettle bells.

 

[Ries]

LOL. Not everyone uses kettle bells.

The guy said, and i quote:
"If you're hitting the back of your wrist (where the face of the watch is) on anything, you're doing something wrong."

Does it look like he is doing something wrong?

 

[Fireproof!]

The guy said, and i quote:
"If you're hitting the back of your wrist (where the face of the watch is) on anything, you're doing something wrong."

Does it look like he is doing something wrong?

Got it. Missed that. Thought you were trying to make a case that one could not work out with the watch.

I guess the point is - depending on one's workout methods and exercises - the watch may or may not make a good companion gadget.


Edit to include: Part of what threw me off is the question "do you even lift." I know many people (primarily bodybuilders) who do in fact lift (and compete) and they don't touch kettle bells. So just because one doesn't immediately think about kettle bells when working out, doesn't mean "they don't even lift."

 

[bbeagle]

Do you even lift? You're telling me it is not going to hit the watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRb5s2lOxV8

Maybe if you're doing kettle bells...

Weight bench, free weights or machines, all of what I use, don't interfere with the back side of my wrist. If I was climbing, or working out another way, maybe a watch wouldn't be such a good idea

 

[technosix]

It does seem like their may be many expectations that cannot be met. That'll be the fun of watching this new product be used by the masses.

 

[cmChimera]

Thanks for the help.

I hope you don't believe him. It should be around 30 feet. Maybe further in certain situations.

 

[Vundu]

I've work a watch my entire life. I wear it to the gym all the time. The band wears out, and needs to be replaced every few years, but the watch face has never been scratched.

If you're hitting the back of your wrist (where the face of the watch is) on anything, you're doing something wrong. I'm grabbing weights with my hands, not the back of my wrist. Every once in a while, I reach through somewhere (like between 2 bars to set weights), and occasionally my watch face hits something, but it won't crack or scratch it! The materials are made well enough.

I _have_ scratched a band before - but it's just part of the deal, I don't care if that looks pristine or not - it's going to age. My leather watch band looks great the first year, showing some wear in the next 6 months, a lot of wear the next 3 months, then atrocious in the next few months until I replace it. But I'm just buying cheap $19 - $29 leather bands. I'd imagine the Apple Watch leather band would hold up better.

Doing cable crossovers, holding a Dumbell two handed for overhead tricep extensions.

Quite a lot of things down the gym would hit the back of your hand doing them correctly.

The main thing though is you cannot wear straps while wearing a watch.

 

[Multiverse223]

Doing cable crossovers, holding a Dumbell two handed for overhead tricep extensions.

Quite a lot of things down the gym would hit the back of your hand doing them correctly.

The main thing though is you cannot wear straps while wearing a watch.

Not sure how cable crossovers would hit the watch in any way, but yes there are some dumbbell exercises that could. However, if the weights are rubber coated there should be no concern at all.

You definitely could wear straps whilst wearing the watch. Get narrower straps, wear the watch higher on your wrist/forearm, or wear the watch over the strap (granted this eliminates the heartrate sensor).

 

[SLQ03]

Not sure how cable crossovers would hit the watch in any way, but yes there are some dumbbell exercises that could. However, if the weights are rubber coated there should be no concern at all.

You definitely could wear straps whilst wearing the watch. Get narrower straps, wear the watch higher on your wrist/forearm, or wear the watch over the strap (granted this eliminates the heartrate sensor).

Funny how I never thought about the straps issue. I use Versa Gripps on back day, so I'll just have to wear the watch higher on my wrist, as you said.
For those who are worried about hitting the face on dumbbells, you could just rotate the face to the inside of your wrist. That way it could still measure your heart rate.

 

[bbeagle]

I hope you don't believe him. It should be around 30 feet. Maybe further in certain situations.

30 feet for bluetooth, yes. But wifi allows up to 300 feet. We KNOW the Apple Watch has wifi.

We just don't know 'for sure' what the 300 feet means yet - 300 feet from the PHONE or 300 feet from the ROUTER.

 

[cmChimera]

30 feet for bluetooth, yes. But wifi allows up to 300 feet. We KNOW the Apple Watch has wifi.

We just don't know 'for sure' what the 300 feet means yet - 300 feet from the PHONE or 300 feet from the ROUTER.

Yeah that's what I meant by the maybe further in certain situations. We haven't quite figured that part out so I didnt want to overstate it.

 

[bbeagle]

Not sure how cable crossovers would hit the watch in any way, but yes there are some dumbbell exercises that could. However, if the weights are rubber coated there should be no concern at all.

Aren't the back of your wrists hurting then? Makes no sense to me. I'm normally grabbing some sort of bar/grip with the FRONT of my hands, then pulling/pushing these bars. In any of the exercises I do, I don't see how anything is getting within 3 inches of the BACK of my wrist.

Nothing even hits the FRONT of my wrist either. I'm trying to imagine a weight-situation where that would ever happen. Because that would HURT if any significant force hit me there.

Now, when I play something like raquetball, I'm taking my watch off. Because it's easy to collide with the walls, floor, other player. Any contact sport or rock climbing, I'd probably NOT wear my watch.

 

[tgi]

I hope you don't believe him. It should be around 30 feet. Maybe further in certain situations.

No I didn't. I was trying to figure out if it would be possible to leave the phone in the locker and still have the watch be connect while in you're in the gym. But 30 feet isn't very far at all.

 

[cmChimera]

No I didn't. I was trying to figure out if it would be possible to leave the phone in the locker and still have the watch be connect while in you're in the gym. But 30 feet isn't very far at all.

Try it out when you get the watch. It uses wifi as well, and may be able to be further.