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January Activity Challenge

And this is that. Three days before the end of the month. Let‘s see what February has in store.

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Congrats to all those, who have achieved their goal.
 
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Turning off daily coaching turns off the notifications but does that stop the auto-adjustment to the move goal as well or does it just silence it and I'll be surprised one week when I realize it had adjusted without my knowledge?
 
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nickdalzell1 said:
Turning off daily coaching turns off the notifications but does that stop the auto-adjustment to the move goal as well or does it just silence it and I'll be surprised one week when I realize it had adjusted without my knowledge?
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I have not changed my Move goal since the beginning of 2019, and it's been even longer since it suggested a change. I am assuming that the Coaching setting is the reason why. It's been so long since I turned that off, I forgot that was how I stopped the mindless Move goal suggestions.
 
Well I wondered because when I got that 'suggestion' if I didn't dial it back before dismissing it (as in if I ignored it) It would just up the goal anyway.

There's mixed opinions of the suggestions, some say if you run or walk enough to burn x calories it won't even offer a suggestion. But for me it wants me to go well over 500Kcal a day. That's too much. The initial 350 is the more reasonable one. But I am hoping it won't just up the ante anyway without notifying me just because I'd rather stick to 350 and not double it.

The Activity app on my iPhone under Trends still claims if I don't flip the arrow up for Move, it will keep offering a new goal until I do.

You'd think there'd be a setting for "I want to maintain my current weight and just be more active than a lazy couch potato" by now. Samsung has had it for years. The first Gear S2 round-face watch during setup in Samsung Health would go through a wizard where you'd tell it whether you want to lose weight, maintain your current weight, gain weight (yes it was an option) and then what level of activity do you strive for--light, normal, above-average, athlete.

Come on Apple wake up!

If the initial move goal is indeed based on the data you plug into Health, I'd at least expect it to adjust properly as those values change. I've lost 20 lbs doing the 350 move goal along with 30 minute exercise and 12 hour stands. I even updated my weight each week as it dropped, but it kept suggesting even harder targets. Do they want me to lose weight and be underweight or do they expect me to chow down on Big Macs to overcome the massive caloric loss? Not exactly a healthy regimen!
 
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Well I wondered because when I got that 'suggestion' if I didn't dial it back before dismissing it (as in if I ignored it) It would just up the goal anyway.

There's mixed opinions of the suggestions, some say if you run or walk enough to burn x calories it won't even offer a suggestion. But for me it wants me to go well over 500Kcal a day. That's too much. The initial 350 is the more reasonable one. But I am hoping it won't just up the ante anyway without notifying me just because I'd rather stick to 350 and not double it.

The Activity app on my iPhone under Trends still claims if I don't flip the arrow up for Move, it will keep offering a new goal until I do.
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I am 99.44% sure that it will not change your Move goal behind your back. With coaching turned off, I think it will stay on 350 unless you change it. That's the way mine behaves.

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You'd think there'd be a setting for "I want to maintain my current weight and just be more active than a lazy couch potato" by now. Samsung has had it for years. The first Gear S2 round-face watch during setup in Samsung Health would go through a wizard where you'd tell it whether you want to lose weight, maintain your current weight, gain weight (yes it was an option) and then what level of activity do you strive for--light, normal, above-average, athlete.

Come on Apple wake up!
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I definitely think that is the approach that makes sense. Allow custom goals: maintain/lose/gain weight (with a target at which it would switch to maintain), maintain/increase activity levels (perhaps with a target), etc. Seasonal or monthly goals would be nice too for those of us who have training cycles.

nickdalzell1 said:
If the initial move goal is indeed based on the data you plug into Health, I'd at least expect it to adjust properly as those values change. I've lost 20 lbs doing the 350 move goal along with 30 minute exercise and 12 hour stands. I even updated my weight each week as it dropped, but it kept suggesting even harder targets. Do they want me to lose weight and be underweight or do they expect me to chow down on Big Macs to overcome the massive caloric loss? Not exactly a healthy regimen!
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I don't think they currently factor weight trends into the Move recommendations at all. They just use your reported weight at initial setup to pick a starting goal. After that, if you leave coaching on, it adopts the up-the-ante algorithm designed to prove that the Peter Principle (e.g. people are promoted until they fail) applies to activity.
 
MickeyVee said:
Thought mine was insane at the beginning of the month.. 'Burn 45,100 Calories'
I'm at 43,296 right now and will make it. Got a smart trainer in late December and on Zwift for an hour 4-5x a week.
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A few of us had very similar challenges this month. My challenge was 43,700. I'm not there yet, but I should make it on Friday.
 
I just bought my AW mid January and my goal is closing all 7 rings in a row. My workout goal is 670 kcal. I closed today all rings 7 days in a row but no achievement. 3days ago i reduced the goal to 650 and back to 670 the next day, do i still get the achievement or not because i changed the daily kcal.
 
I wonder if disabling daily coaching also makes the monthly awards remain reasonable. I'd hate to be stuck with one of those Iron Man style ones I've seen posted here!
 
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I wonder if disabling daily coaching also makes the monthly awards remain reasonable. I'd hate to be stuck with one of those Iron Man style ones I've seen posted here!
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I have disabled daily coaching. Do you think burning 42500 kcal in one month is reasonable? Otherwise the answer to your question would be no. :)
 
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I wonder if disabling daily coaching also makes the monthly awards remain reasonable. I'd hate to be stuck with one of those Iron Man style ones I've seen posted here!
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Disabling coaching does not change the algorithm behind the monthly challenges. My monthly challenges have generally been in line with what what I've done in prior months. They just don't take into account the peaks and valleys of training cycles. Not every month is a peak month.

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I still have 174 calories to go :D
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You could burn that sleeping for two days!

I have 2,531 to go for today and tomorrow. My normal running and rowing will cover that.
 
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I think I'd burn a lot more than that sleeping for two days :D
I'm feeling like a super lazy butt because my January Goal was to burn "only" 9.400 kcal from activity, but then, I'm a small female, maybe that's why the watch set the goal so low. Or maybe it knows that I'm a lazy ass ;-)
 
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I think I'd burn a lot more than that sleeping for two days :D
I'm feeling like a super lazy butt because my January Goal was to burn "only" 9.400 kcal from activity, but then, I'm a small female, maybe that's why the watch set the goal so low. Or maybe it knows that I'm a lazy ass ;-)
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That has a lot to do with it. I'm a fat male (6'2" 320lbs) out of shape.
On top of that I sit on my butt in front of a computer each day.
Yet my recently (since nov) usual 2 walks of 1mile each (15-16 min/mile) combined with normal movement will put me over 1200 cal day of activity tracking.

Since nov, I've been dropping around 1.2 lbs/week My hope is that in 3 months or so, 1200 will be harder and harder to reach as my fitness increases and doesn't set off the activity/exercise ring progress as easily.
 
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andyw715 said:
That has a lot to do with it. I'm a fat male (6'2" 320lbs) out of shape.
On top of that I sit on my butt in front of a computer each day.
Yet my recently (since nov) usual 2 walks of 1mile each (15-16 min/mile) combined with normal movement will put me over 1200 cal day of activity tracking.

Since nov, I've been dropping around 1.2 lbs/week My hope is that in 3 months or so, 1200 will be harder and harder to reach as my fitness increases and doesn't set off the activity/exercise ring progress as easily.
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Keep up the good work! In 3 months, you'll burn fewer calories per mile, but the miles will be easier to complete!
 
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andyw715 said:
That has a lot to do with it. I'm a fat male (6'2" 320lbs) out of shape.
On top of that I sit on my butt in front of a computer each day.
Yet my recently (since nov) usual 2 walks of 1mile each (15-16 min/mile) combined with normal movement will put me over 1200 cal day of activity tracking.

Since nov, I've been dropping around 1.2 lbs/week My hope is that in 3 months or so, 1200 will be harder and harder to reach as my fitness increases and doesn't set off the activity/exercise ring progress as easily.
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What jhfenton said - well done and keep it going👍
 
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Has anyone had an issue with the data on your watch not matching the data on iPhone? Last night after a short workout my watch was showing all 3 rings closed but phone was not. Also the exercise minutes didn't match. One said 26 and other said 34. Can this be corrected? Has been correct up until last night.
 
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