Got my exercise to 110 min yesterday. Was at 35 just after my work day and never selecting anything in the workout app and got the rest at the gym for about an hour and a half using either 'other' or the 'elliptical' settings.
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Got my exercise to 110 min yesterday. Was at 35 just after my work day and never selecting anything in the workout app and got the rest at the gym for about an hour and a half using either 'other' or the 'elliptical' settings.
So I walked to and from the pet store yesterday, while running the Outdoor Walk workout. I took my phone with me. Turned out the distance was 1/3 mile each way.
So going, I walked as fast as I could.
Time 5.50
Calories 12
Average HR 146
Coming back, I walked at my normal pace, or somewhat slower, as I was carrying a bag of cat food.
Time 8.15
Calories 10
Average HR 124
When I checked my Activity after I got home, I had been credited with 4 minutes of exercise. I don't know how that is distributed over the two walks, because I didn't check Actitvity while at the pet store.
What is interesting to me is that the difference in speed resulted in only 2 calories difference. Is that about what it should be?
Anyway, if walking for nearly 15 minutes gets me, say, 5 minutes of exercise, then in order to get 30 minutes exercise credit, I need to walk... 90 minutes? Er...
Yes, because more time spent at less effort (slower speed) can about = less time spent at more effort (higher speed) in caloric burn rate. The goal is to spend more time and more effort.
You should probably disregard the Exercise Ring for now and just concentrate on improving your general physical condition. Using Move (Active caloric burn) and getting 10,000 steps a day (about 5 miles walking) will probably be a better incentive and abatable goals. Then as your conditioning improves you can move up to increased effort needed for Exercise credit.
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Actually, the watch does give me step counts of 10,000 plus a day quite often, but that includes steps taken shuffling around the house/office. The pedometer app I have on my iPhone gives me around 4-6.000 steps a day, and that's for actual walking outside, as I leave my iPhone on my desk when indoors. So I guess you are recommending I double the amount of walking I do a day. The problem, of course, is how to do it. If I didn't have to do anything other than take walks all day, of course I could do it, but is there any free time in my day to get in another 5,000 step walk? Hm...
I agree that some people are probably better focusing on the steps and move.
10,000 steps is an absolutely brilliant target to go for and can be harder to achieve than 30 mins of exercise.
I hope Apple will make a bigger deal with regards to steps in the future... that may have saved them more grief, lol!
Or they could allow third party apps to get step counts from the watch. I have a pedometer app I like on my iPhone, but right now it only counts steps from the phone. It will be perfect if it counted steps from the watch instead, but apparently, Apple doesnt allow this yet. I'm hoping they will release this feature at WWDC tomorrow.
You can see current step count on the
Watch Activity App: 1st screen and scroll down.
You can also see daily step count on your iPhone's Activity App: scroll to the bottom. You should have the Steps pane setup in the iPhone's Health App too.
I'm not recommending 10,000 steps a day (well I am but didn't come up with it
). This is the universally recommended minimum amount of exercise a person should get a day. I believe the recommendation originated from Mayo Clinic studies.Also keep in mind if you do any jogging you can multiply the step count in the jog by 1.5-2 times since stride length is increased.
There are many 'tricks' to getting 10,000 steps a day that don't require taking extra detected walks. Just be creative and here are a couple of ideas to start with:
- Park you car at the back of any parking lot and walk.
- Never use an elevator for 5 floors or less.
- Never sit through a commercial on TV.
- Never use you car for less than 1 mile.
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Yes, I realize that. But in my iPhone pedometer app, I can set a daily step goal, and the app congratulates me when I reach my goal. And it keeps a log of steps I take each day. So it's like the Move circle, only using steps instead of calories.
Good ideas, but I don't drive, and my apartment is on the first floor and my office is on the 40th floor.
I guess I could change trains on my way to work at a stop that requires more walking to transfer, and I can get up during commercial breaks. I'll figure something out, thanks for the suggestions.
Get off the elevator on the 34th floor up and on 6 down (if building allows stair access)....my office is on the 40th floor.
I'll figure something out, thanks for the suggestions.
Get off the elevator on the 34th floor up and on 6 down.
Heh.
Not sure if te building stairwell lets you back in if you go out -- will have to look into that.
I'm not recommending 10,000 steps a day (well I am but didn't come up with it
Also keep in mind if you do any jogging you can multiply the step count in the jog by 1.5-2 times since stride length is increased.
Just some more info: "The origins of the 10,000-steps recommendation aren't exactly scientific. Pedometers sold in Japan in the 1960s were marketed under the name "manpo-kei," which translates to "10,000 steps meter," said Catrine Tudor-Locke, director of the Walking Behavior Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La. The idea resonated with people, and gained popularity with Japanese walking groups, Tudor-Locke said."
"Walking 10,000 steps a day is not an official recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instead, the agency recommends adults engage in 150 minutes of moderate activity a week, such as brisk walking. To meet the CDC's recommendation, you need to walk about 7,000 to 8,000 steps a day, Tudor-Locke said."
I think this is why Apple is moving away from steps as well as what Nike did.
10,000 steps is an arbitrary number but a good goal to stay focused...
Today I did a 80 minute walk with my girlfriend and AW credited me for 2 minutes. At first I was like WTF then I thought about it and said to myself "Did I really pushing myself the whole time or were we really just causally walking around"? I didn't break a sweat and was breathing normally so while it was "exercise" in the sense that I wasn't laying around watching TV I wasn't really exercising for strength and endurance.
I would love more emphasis on my watch face to indicate the number of steps a day though to keep me focused.
Today I did a 80 minute walk with my girlfriend and AW credited me for 2 minutes. At first I was like WTF then I thought about it and said to myself "Did I really pushing myself the whole time or were we really just causally walking around"? I didn't break a sweat and was breathing normally so while it was "exercise" in the sense that I wasn't laying around watching TV I wasn't really exercising for strength and endurance.
I would love more emphasis on my watch face to indicate the number of steps a day though to keep me focused.
Did some indoor cycles and using the indoor cycle workout:
The 38 watch on 1.0 credited me nothing, even unpairing and resetting a bunch of times did not work.
The space grey 42 watch on 1.01 credited me full exercise and calories; with same heart rate or lower.
There are at least 3 variables here: the person's level of exertion, the hardware that they are using, and the software. Its hard to tell which is the problem unless you control for the other 2 variables. In my case, I know I am not the issue as I did the same thing and one watch credited me and the other watch did not.
Additionally, I tried doing the indoor cycle on the 38 using "Other" and it did credit me active calories and exercise minutes.
So perhaps the hardware is OK and the software is not?
The 38 watch on 1.0 credited me nothing, even unpairing and resetting a bunch of times did not work.
The space grey 42 watch on 1.01 credited me full exercise and calories; with same heart rate or lower.
There are at least 3 variables here: the person's level of exertion, the hardware that they are using, and the software. Its hard to tell which is the problem unless you control for the other 2 variables. In my case, I know I am not the issue as I did the same thing and one watch credited me and the other watch did not.
Additionally, I tried doing the indoor cycle on the 38 using "Other" and it did credit me active calories and exercise minutes.
So perhaps the hardware is OK and the software is not?