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Tips on setting daily move goal?
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Mine is set to 500. I’m a 126 pound female so it’s HARD to beat that all the time. I run anywhere from 3-10 miles on a given day so I usually do hit it on a run day. On a rest day I’m not even close, not even with a brisk walk. Kinda not fair, but I would feel like a loser if I lowered it to make it easier.
Mine is 570. I’m 47, male, 5ft 6”, 150lbs.
I try and do my 10000 steps a day, and when I do I just about close the move ring.
Not sure about upping it - it is part of my daily routine most days, but that just means that getting that exercise is part of my routine. I’m not going to be too fussed about doing more than that!
I try and do my 10000 steps a day, and when I do I just about close the move ring.
Not sure about upping it - it is part of my daily routine most days, but that just means that getting that exercise is part of my routine. I’m not going to be too fussed about doing more than that!
Must say this thread inspired me to get those rings filled again. It was at 320 kcal a month ago, and I change it to what it suggests every monday and now I'm at 380 so I guess the watch is happy since it has been suggesting a higher goal every week now. (320 > 340 > 360 > 380)
I just started using the activity app on my apple watch this monday (yeh im a fitbit guy) but always had a Apple Watch since series 0. The watch set my calorie goal to 650, ive been to the gym the whole week and always get 1000+ calories burn by moving, also get a average of 150 mins of exercise a day...
Might have to up that to 1200, then lower it on rest day.
Might have to up that to 1200, then lower it on rest day.
For me, to close the move and exercise rings, 20min of dancing =100 calories. The funnier the moves, the more effective. 
Got my series 3 in Jan and want to complete a first full month of closing all rings in March.
Got my series 3 in Jan and want to complete a first full month of closing all rings in March.
Rather than having to lower it on a rest day, I’d suggest setting it at a level that is a bit of a challenge for a rest day and then try to get the 200% or even 300% badges on workout days.
For me, to close the move and exercise rings, 20min of dancing =100 calories. The funnier the moves, the more effective.
This cracks me up because I was recently away on a work trip and wasn’t able to run. So once I was back in my hotel room I just put on a fun playlist and was dancing in my room by myself to close the move ring!!
I’m not sure if it’s already been posted but if you scroll down to the bottom of your weekly update, (mine comes on Mondays) Apple will tell you what to set it to. Overtime it will change your habits and set the perfect goal for you.
I find it interesting how some people seem to want every day to be a challenge. Nothing wrong with that. That's just not how I do it. I never even thought of doing it that way.
I set reasonable goals for me. My Move goal is 650. I usually hit that during a normal work day with a little extra effort (desk job). When I get home, I'm basically done. I feel good for hitting my daily goals. And if I end up having a busy evening, that's just bonus stuff. On weekends I typically try to hit my goals first thing in the morning. Then I can rest the rest of the day or not. Depends on what I have planned for the day. Sometimes I end up doubling my move goal.
I think either way is valid. I just never thought to make every day a challenge. I much prefer hitting minimum goals every day with the option of going past that on some days.
I set reasonable goals for me. My Move goal is 650. I usually hit that during a normal work day with a little extra effort (desk job). When I get home, I'm basically done. I feel good for hitting my daily goals. And if I end up having a busy evening, that's just bonus stuff. On weekends I typically try to hit my goals first thing in the morning. Then I can rest the rest of the day or not. Depends on what I have planned for the day. Sometimes I end up doubling my move goal.
I think either way is valid. I just never thought to make every day a challenge. I much prefer hitting minimum goals every day with the option of going past that on some days.
I’m 5’8 30 and 182 lbs what should my move goal be
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Just use the default for a couple of weeks and then decide if you want every day to be a challenge or a walk in the park (pun intended).
Mine is at 380 with a desk job. It requires me to do something extra every day, but not too much. When I go for a run I get rewarded with the 200% badge. On a lazy day I will end somewhere around 350...
Mine is at 380 with a desk job. It requires me to do something extra every day, but not too much. When I go for a run I get rewarded with the 200% badge. On a lazy day I will end somewhere around 350...
I moved from New York to Philly suburbs 3 years ago and it's been a struggle getting used to this "reduced mobility lifestyle". I find that it helps if I set my goal to something higher so even if I don't meet it, I land somewhere higher than I would with a more achievable goal. In New York, step goals (I was using the Nike Fuelband first and then the Jawbone up) were a piece of cake since I was constantly on my feet. If you live in a suburban environment and drive everywhere it's a challenge.
My one trick is stopping at the gym even if I don't feel like doing cardio - I grab my iPad, put on an episode of my current binge-show and just walk on an incline for at least 45 minutes. Gotta get your movement for the day no matter what
My one trick is stopping at the gym even if I don't feel like doing cardio - I grab my iPad, put on an episode of my current binge-show and just walk on an incline for at least 45 minutes. Gotta get your movement for the day no matter what
A) When you set the watch up, I believe it suggests different defaults for different people depending on the height and weight they put in.
B) I started with the default it suggested, and I increase it a small amount once I complete the goal every day for a full week.
[doublepost=1523468444][/doublepost]You guys living in urban areas and working jobs where you're on your feet a lot are lucky in terms of getting exercise without having to try. I live in suburbia and have a desk job. I average just over 3000 steps per weekday and around 6000 steps per weekend day when I don't purposely go on a walk or run for exercise.
B) I started with the default it suggested, and I increase it a small amount once I complete the goal every day for a full week.
[doublepost=1523468444][/doublepost]You guys living in urban areas and working jobs where you're on your feet a lot are lucky in terms of getting exercise without having to try. I live in suburbia and have a desk job. I average just over 3000 steps per weekday and around 6000 steps per weekend day when I don't purposely go on a walk or run for exercise.
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I have a desk job. I get around it with little stuff. Need to go to the bathroom? Don't go to the closest one, go to the one on the opposite end of the building. Need coffee/tea/water/etc, don't go to the closest area for that, go to the one that is the furthest away. Going to the bathroom? Do an extra lap on my way back. I find a little here and there does wonders. Most days I've hit my goals (650 calories, 10,000 steps and 5 miles) before ever going home.
Clearly that will depend on the amount of freedom you have at work. I'm salaried, not hourly, so I tend to have slightly more freedom with these things than those punching a clock.
Hilarious! Healthy attitude because you also seem to minimize work stress that way. Next time try to use the bathroom of the office building next to yours. I don’t make fun of you but it really sounds like a fun job.
I’ve been ignoring the Move ring for 3 months now. I honestly don’t remember how I’d ended up with a 900 calorie goal, but I know the current calculations are way off base. Take today: one hour of hardcore yoga, 40 minutes of boxing and 20 minutes of weight training with my coach that made me want to cry for my mommy, plus 20 minutes of VMX rope pull at the highest resistance level. This is a pretty typical day for me. What’s changed from 3 months ago is that I’ve sustained a running injury, so I don’t get in the 20-30K daily steps that I used to. I’m a writer and photographer, but the Watch doesn’t care that I do most of it standing up (sitting hurts courtesy of said injury). It doesn’t care that I drip sweat for 40 minutes in a boxing ring or that I burn 500+ calories on the vertical rope (you’d think the high heart rate and vigorous arm motion would be a clue, but evidently it’s not).
Today it gave me credit for 90 minutes of exercise. OK - I kept my heart rate over 155 for about that long all told. But I put in easily another hour at 130-140. Since my resting HR is below 50, how is that hour NOT counted toward my Move goal? It’s 8pm, I’ve been up and going since 6am, and my Move ring is at 40%. What?
I’m a 5’10” beanpole who scarfs down 2500+ calories a day just to stay put on windy days. I am definitely “moving” enough. By comparison, my husband has a mostly desk job, but because he logs the vaunted 10K+ steps a day (albeit at a leisurely pace) and reluctantly hits the elliptical during the evening news, all his rings close every day.
Yeah, I know I can lower the calorie goal. I’m just miffed that the watch is so unbelievably crappy at assessing the athletic value of any activity that doesn’t involve significant horizontal displacement. If it weren’t for uploaded music, texts (though not calls - their quality is atrocious), and the handy HR monitor for HIIT workouts, the damn thing would be sitting in a drawer.
Today it gave me credit for 90 minutes of exercise. OK - I kept my heart rate over 155 for about that long all told. But I put in easily another hour at 130-140. Since my resting HR is below 50, how is that hour NOT counted toward my Move goal? It’s 8pm, I’ve been up and going since 6am, and my Move ring is at 40%. What?
I’m a 5’10” beanpole who scarfs down 2500+ calories a day just to stay put on windy days. I am definitely “moving” enough. By comparison, my husband has a mostly desk job, but because he logs the vaunted 10K+ steps a day (albeit at a leisurely pace) and reluctantly hits the elliptical during the evening news, all his rings close every day.
Yeah, I know I can lower the calorie goal. I’m just miffed that the watch is so unbelievably crappy at assessing the athletic value of any activity that doesn’t involve significant horizontal displacement. If it weren’t for uploaded music, texts (though not calls - their quality is atrocious), and the handy HR monitor for HIIT workouts, the damn thing would be sitting in a drawer.
Your move goal is active calories (beyond those required for just living) and is arbitrary. Without also considering your build type, calorie intake and what you are trying to accomplish no one can tell anyone else what your goal should be.
For example I'm 5'10" 155 lbs, my goal is irrelevant to me because I'm trying to put on weight. The Apple Watch helps me adjust what I eat and how much though.
For those that might be trying to lose weight you need to set your goal just out of range from where you normally end the day. If your goal is too low its a pointless and otherwise hollow victory (you did nothing) if you set it too high its unlikely you'll be motivated to reach an unrealistic goal and quit before you even start. And thats the point, the watch should help motivate you to go those extra few steps outside your normal behavior.
I'm a example of the hollow victory. I have an active job and find the rings too easy to close. Because of that its tough to stay motivated to actually workout. And you can't improve unless you go beyond what your normal activity is.
Just from this week.
Find a friend that is competitive is the best motivation though. Even comparing steps everyday trying to one up each other. I was getting gas a week or so ago and walking around my vehicle just to try to surpass a friend lol.
For example I'm 5'10" 155 lbs, my goal is irrelevant to me because I'm trying to put on weight. The Apple Watch helps me adjust what I eat and how much though.
For those that might be trying to lose weight you need to set your goal just out of range from where you normally end the day. If your goal is too low its a pointless and otherwise hollow victory (you did nothing) if you set it too high its unlikely you'll be motivated to reach an unrealistic goal and quit before you even start. And thats the point, the watch should help motivate you to go those extra few steps outside your normal behavior.
I'm a example of the hollow victory. I have an active job and find the rings too easy to close. Because of that its tough to stay motivated to actually workout. And you can't improve unless you go beyond what your normal activity is.
Just from this week.
Find a friend that is competitive is the best motivation though. Even comparing steps everyday trying to one up each other. I was getting gas a week or so ago and walking around my vehicle just to try to surpass a friend lol.
I'm assuming that you're a woman, based on your avatar and that you mention a husband. If I've assumed incorrectly, please forgive me.
The way calories are calculated on any of these devices are based on height, weight, and gender. The taller you are, the more easily calories are burned. The heavier you are, the more easily calories are burned. And lastly, men burn more calories than women for the "same" level of activity. I don't know why, but that's how the formulas work.
In regards to your AW not crediting you with a calorie burn level that you think you should be getting, I would suggest looking at a few things.
1. Make sure your height, weight, and gender is set correctly in your Health app on the iPhone. Some folks were having low calorie counts and it turned out that their weight setting somehow got changed to 50 lbs or so.
2. When you are working out (yoga, boxing, etc) are you selecting a workout on your AW? If not, the AW isn't recording a continuous HR, and the algorithms to calculate calories isn't based on active workouts.
3. If you have selected a Workout, are you using Other? I have found that Other seems to use an algorithm that mimics a light walk. If you're really getting your HR up with intense exercise, I would suggest using HIIT. HIIT seems to use a different algorithm that gives calorie burn more in line with intense exercise.
That's all I got.
I wish there was an option to pre-determine or designate a day or two as rest days. On those days your exercise and move rings would be reduced/cut in half. And the next day back to normal.
Sucks when I am sick (see beginning of June) and cannot meet my move or exercise ring goals.
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Thank you for your suggestions and yes, I’m a woman.
1. All my height/weight/age/etc info is correct because my native health app is integrated with Fitness Pal, which I use to track micro- and macro nutrients of what I eat to get enough protein, calcium etc., esp. when I’m training for races. I do expect a certain degree of inaccuracy in my AW’s calorie counting because it obviously doesn’t take into account the user’s BMI or just plain genetics when it comes to metabolic rates. It would be OK, if it weren’t so wildly off base. I look very skinny, but I’m packing almost 140 lbs because of lean muscle and dense bones. As far as my AW is concerned, I should be expected to have burned more than 360 calories in 14 hours yesterday (!), especially since it gave me credit for 230 cal. for yoga and general credit for 90 minutes of exercise. The math just doesn’t make sense.
2. I do try to remember to select the right workout. Yoga is a gimme, and running always was very accurate. The elliptical - not so much. I do sprint work on it now that I’m injured and I haul a...s on my toes while keeping my pelvis stable to keep from irritating my injury. I’m assuming that AW is responding to my not bopping up and down as one normally would on an elliptical, but I have the HR app on to make sure I’m keeping my HR high, and I keep refreshing it. Again, the algorithm should detect the HR changes, especially since I’ve had the watch for a year now I’d’ve hoped it’d’ve picked up on my HR patterns by now.
3. I’ve never used “Other” for a workout. I don’t usually use “Cross Training” or HIIT either, because I never know what horrors my kickboxing coach will dream up for that day and it may not fit squarely in either category. Plus, I’d have to turn it on before wrapping and gloving my hands, and it feels like cheating if I then end up BS’ing with my coach for 15 minutes or just practicing technique, which really isn’t that cardio-intensive.
The bottom line to me is that I’d like my Move ring to close and my smart device to eventually learn that 120+ minutes of high HR (or closely spaced alternating high/low HR intervals) combined with lots of upper body movement throughout the day IS moving, even if I’m only clocking 3-4 miles a day right now. I’m not so concerned about the calorie count per se except as a metric of moving. I like to close my rings, even if it does make me a Skinnerian cliche...
900 active calories is a lot in my experience.... I am relatively skinny for my height as well. Just saying. Have you paid any attention to those weekly reminders you get on Monday morning? You could adjust the goal down based on that and what you think is reasonable (I never use the goal it suggests exactly). Even if the other things still bother you at least you'd be closing your rings!