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Ah the good old days :) I remember it well, when we had a full monthly challenge (every day of the month) and had to work hard for your badge. Today is just so easy for me;) covering mostly 14 days and I don't have to work hard at all to complete the so called challenge. Maybe one day, they will bring the full monthly challenge back:).
I think both are too simplistic. I'm hoping that with Apple's recent push to hire AI talent, that they'll put some of those resources on the health app. If I hired a personal trainer, the first thing he or she would ask is to ask about my goals. Am I training to run a marathon next fall, or do I just want to do enough exercise to lower my risk of a cardiovascular event? The health app knows my age and the sensors enable it to ascertain my current level of fitness, and I can imagine a progress bar that charts my fitness level over time as I get closer to achieving my goal (or my lack of progress should I slack off). Challenges should be calibrated to motivate me to attain and then maintain that level of fitness, rather than a blind insatiable attempt to push me to do a little more (or in the old days a lot more) than I did last month.
 
Agree that the challenges are anything but now.
Over the last month I’m averaging 2 hours 16 minutes of exercise per day. That’s a pretty consistent graph as well. Not much variation.
Then this months challenge is 112 minutes a day for 14 days.
So literally lower than my average for half a month.
 
I never got to experience the original more challenging tasks like you all are talking about...
Yes I did own an AW since the S2 was released but back then I was hardly able to even move or walk at all hence why I never bothered to activate the Activity mode so that's why I never got to see them what they were like.
Then I completely forgot about all together and it was only when I bought my S8 and came back to the forums you guys reminded me of the Activity stuff :)
 
I almost feel insulted.. but at least it’s my favorite color.
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Congrats & thanks for the heads up for the World Meditation Day Challenge!
Is that a new one or has that appeared before?
first time

 
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Need 1 more day to get mine, didn’t have an AW for a full week as I returned my SS S9, sold my aluminium S9 then waited for an Ultra 2 refurb to be in stock. 😅
Now that I’ve had an S9 since December part of me wants an Ultra 2. I wasn’t sure how much use I’d get out of an Apple Watch but it’s great, not the least because I’m less sedentary now. The extra battery life and larger screen are appealing…
 
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