One of the things I've always liked about the AW are the three exercise rings. I'm finding the hardest one to fill each day is the stand-up one. I certainly find the whole thing very motivating. I'm not super-clear on what qualifies for the stand-up one: it's certainly more than merely standing up, it seems like you have to at least wander around for a while swinging your arms!
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Which ring is the hardest for you?
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I have actually always filled the stand ring. Haven't missed that at all. (Actually the other day, it said "Stand 18/12 hours" I was like dang 
. I only had two "idle hours." I find the exercise one hardest to fill. It's the only one for me that really takes deliberate action to fill. (Although it just raised my calorie goal so that may take more now too.). I love the rings. My OCD doesn't want to let me let any of the rings go unfilled, so I find myself running at 9pm just to fill the rest of that green ring. Lol!
. I only had two "idle hours." I find the exercise one hardest to fill. It's the only one for me that really takes deliberate action to fill. (Although it just raised my calorie goal so that may take more now too.). I love the rings. My OCD doesn't want to let me let any of the rings go unfilled, so I find myself running at 9pm just to fill the rest of that green ring. Lol!
The "problem" with the stand ring is that you can't make up in the evening for a whole day lying on the coach. However this is the point, it forces you to move your ass relatively frequently if you want to fill the ring.
Since I have a desk job, I do find this ring a bit hard some days, but I think it's a fantastic feature.
Since I have a desk job, I do find this ring a bit hard some days, but I think it's a fantastic feature.
You have to walk around for a minute. Standing up is by far the easiest to complete for me. Exercise and Move are harder. But I've set my move-goal to about 750kcal so I need to exercise for about 1 1/2 hour for it to complete.
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And you can only change your calorie target goal; Exercise and Stand as of now cannot be changed from 30 min and 12 hours respectively.
It varies from day to day for me. I set my Move goal too high once or twice and had a hard time hitting it, so readjusted downwards and then had no trouble. On very sedentary days where I didn't leave the house, I've had to make an effort to fill the Exercise ring, though on average it's probably the easiest to fill. I'm a super fast walker, so even an hour's worth of running errands tends to fill my Exercise one.
The Stand one is definitely the easiest to miss, though-- all it takes is to sleep for 13 hours and there's nothing at all you can do in the remaining 11 to check off that day! If you had trouble with with Move or Exercise on a given day, you can fill them up fairly quickly with a brisk walk or bike ride, but once you miss 13 hours on the Stand goal, you're toast. I have a pretty terrible sleep schedule, so it's not unusual for me to be up for over 24 hours, then crash for 15 or 16 hours afterwards. This really messes up my Stand activity, though, so I've been trying not to do that since I got the Watch! I think my current Stand record is 22 or 23 hours.
It's almost 4pm here in Ireland. This morning I got up early, then went to the mall to get groceries, and I'm now at 310/300 Move, 26/30 Exercise, and 11/12 Stand. To be honest, with the exception of oversleeping for the Stand one, I don't struggle to fill my circles. Only on very lazy days do I find it difficult, though I think my Move goal is a lot lower than other people's!
The Stand one is definitely the easiest to miss, though-- all it takes is to sleep for 13 hours and there's nothing at all you can do in the remaining 11 to check off that day! If you had trouble with with Move or Exercise on a given day, you can fill them up fairly quickly with a brisk walk or bike ride, but once you miss 13 hours on the Stand goal, you're toast. I have a pretty terrible sleep schedule, so it's not unusual for me to be up for over 24 hours, then crash for 15 or 16 hours afterwards. This really messes up my Stand activity, though, so I've been trying not to do that since I got the Watch! I think my current Stand record is 22 or 23 hours.
It's almost 4pm here in Ireland. This morning I got up early, then went to the mall to get groceries, and I'm now at 310/300 Move, 26/30 Exercise, and 11/12 Stand. To be honest, with the exception of oversleeping for the Stand one, I don't struggle to fill my circles. Only on very lazy days do I find it difficult, though I think my Move goal is a lot lower than other people's!
The exercise ring for me. I learned by swinging my arms when I jog or walk fast generates exercise whereas before it did not. The other 2 rings I can pretty much fill with not too much effort. Move goal = 500 but I go over that usually.
Move sucks. "Active" calories is set at 600. I work in an office, so there's never a point where that will be more than 100 by the time I get home. Is what it is, I guess.
Exercise is easy if you use the "running man icon" on the watch. If you are exercising for more than 30 minutes...it fills up quickly.
Stand is by far the easiest. Not sure I have missed a day of completing that 100%.
Exercise is easy if you use the "running man icon" on the watch. If you are exercising for more than 30 minutes...it fills up quickly.
Stand is by far the easiest. Not sure I have missed a day of completing that 100%.
Exercise is the hardest for me because I can't exercise everyday being a full-time student and working! I only get it when I actually work out, sometimes if I am in a rush to get to class on time lol. I'm thinking of starting an outdoor walk on the workout app when I am going to class and maybe that'll help me out!
My move goal is pretty low but that's okay because I'm consistently hitting it so I definitely think I will be able to see progress eventually. I'm pretty much starting my weight loss journey so it's a nice goal to see hit everyday.
Standing is the easiest but it's frustrating when I get up to do something and the watch didn't recognize my standing so I miss a whole hour.
My move goal is pretty low but that's okay because I'm consistently hitting it so I definitely think I will be able to see progress eventually. I'm pretty much starting my weight loss journey so it's a nice goal to see hit everyday.
Standing is the easiest but it's frustrating when I get up to do something and the watch didn't recognize my standing so I miss a whole hour.
I work in an office and I'm usually at like 500 - 600 active calories by the end of the day. Just depends on the job I guess? I also walk on both of my breaks and my lunch so that helps a lot.
The Stand goal I have always hit. Not a problem.
The Exercise goal I usually hit, but not always. Its five minutes to walk from where my parking space is to where I sit, so just that covers a third of the goal.
The Move goal I have never hit. I'm so bad at that the app has reduced my goal down to 210 calories(!). I havent been to the gym since I got the watch last week though, so that should bring that back up a bit, I hope.
The Exercise goal I usually hit, but not always. Its five minutes to walk from where my parking space is to where I sit, so just that covers a third of the goal.
The Move goal I have never hit. I'm so bad at that the app has reduced my goal down to 210 calories(!). I havent been to the gym since I got the watch last week though, so that should bring that back up a bit, I hope.
Move for me. I think the calories are set to 640. I never get halfway. One of the reasons is when I go running, I usually wear one of my Polar or Garmin watches. These actually sync nicely to Apple Health and the steps and active calories update in Apple Health, but don't come across to the watch so doesn't shift the move or exercise rings. It would be nice if they did but I'm not too worried.
As a teacher the standing is easy, normally get 14 or 15 Hours.
As a teacher the standing is easy, normally get 14 or 15 Hours.
I would say the ring in the middle of a donut is the hardest, bit of an emotional rollercoaster there. But due to exams my stand goal has slipped. Upsetting.
Stand just requires you to stand and move around for at least a minute each hour. I find that the Watch will remind you to stand when there's 10 minutes left in the hour and you haven't stood up.
For me, stand is the easiest to fill. It even on a 11 hour flight from Paris to LAX, I stood up every hour to make sure to hit my goal, luckily I was on an aisle.
The exercise ring is the toughest for me, since it requires exercise. (go figure) but the rings are motivating me for sure.
Yeah same here- I work in an office/desk job and am usually right around those active cal numbers as well by the end of the work day. I'll say two points about myself, the first that kinda has me surprised by some of the responses here for numbers sounding low - really don't mean to sound douchey or Headier-Than-Thou, I swear- and the second maybe swings the other way and explains why I regularly hit higher numbers relative to some I'm seeing here.
1) I don't "workout" - don't go to a gym don't belong to a gym, the only "workouts" I've done with my Watch have been walks outside or hikes if I go to the park. And I haven't missed a single ring since I got the Watch on May 1st- so the surprising part is that I have it set to 650 active cals a day
2) While I don't "workout" I do a lot of walking. I've never been able to sit at work for hours on end without having a minute or two jumping out of my seat and cruising around the office/halls every hour or so. So I always knew that the stand ring would be easy as I haven't changed a thing from my work day that I hadn't already been doing for years.
The Move ring is the hardest for me. Mine is set at 800 and I work in an office. Whilst I find I can hit the goal fairly consistently, there is usually 1 day of the week where it's a struggle.
I find the Exercise and Stand rings easy to fill. My morning cross trainer session always takes care of Exercise for me.
With Stand, I find I am up and down enough from my computer and desk so that the Stand goal is always met too. Most work days I usually get a stand credit for each hour I am awake. The problem is the weekend for the Stand goal.
I find the Exercise and Stand rings easy to fill. My morning cross trainer session always takes care of Exercise for me.
With Stand, I find I am up and down enough from my computer and desk so that the Stand goal is always met too. Most work days I usually get a stand credit for each hour I am awake. The problem is the weekend for the Stand goal.
The stand ring is sometimes hard to fill. Yesterday I was riding my mountain bike for at least an hour at a quite high speed (I can't go slowly when I bike) and still only had 8 stand hours because I was resting the rest of the day playing PS4 on the couch.
It's a bit annoying given I easily reached my other two goals and surely had enough workout yesterday.
It's a bit annoying given I easily reached my other two goals and surely had enough workout yesterday.