Which ring is the hardest for you?

chadsteruw said:
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.
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The only reason it becomes a problem, is when you have two two-hour exams back to back. No breaks, but thanks to how I am not allowed digital watches in exams I have to take off the watch before hand. So I end up losing about six hours a day of usage, nice for the battery, bad for fitness tracking :/
 
For me its the standing. I exercise for an hour every morning before work and that usually fills my move and exercise rings. The standing I usually always fill but sometimes I need to pay attention and make sure I get up and move to really fill it up, which I suppose is the idea. =O
 
My initial move goal was like 850 calories. Is that because I'm heavy (235lbs) so I burn more calories? Or that I exercise regularly already so it knew I already got lots of exercise?
 
Does stand know if you've been on your feet most of the day? Yesterday I finally managed to fill the exercise ring because I was on the go since early afternoon but for the first time in weeks I failed to make my stand goal!
 
The exercise is hardest for me. I average 12-16 hours on the stand ring. The only day since I got it that I didn't meet the stand was last weekend when I was working on my car and left my watch upstairs for about 4 hours while I did. I'm reaching my move goals about 70-80% of the time.
 
I am now able to meet my center ring exercise goals and calorie goals by opening up the Workout App and choosing "other" and then working myself half to death mopping floors and scrubbing the house and being very active but not in the traditional "put on your spandex and do aerobics" sense.

I started this yesterday but now it seems to have changed how my Apple Watch measure the stand goal. Despite being on my feet most of the day I still have 7 hours to go and I'm not going to achieve that before bedtime. Why is it that once I figure out how to get one ring working the one that was fine goes kerflooey?
 
Trick with stand goal (some may consider this cheating):

Walk around 6 times a day, for at least 6 minutes, and space it out at least 2 hours a part, but you must start the walk at xx:57 and end the walk at x+1:03 to make sure you get the 2 hours stand credit for your walk and you have to space it out (8:57-9:03, 10:57-11:03, 12:57-1:03, etc) to get 2 hours of credit instead of 1.

I now hit thestand goal without failing with a desk job and even on lazy weekends.

Rok73 said:
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.
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The exercise ring for me. I thought I'd have no use for the fitness stuff on the watch but I find it very motivating. Am thinking of getting my running shoes out of the back of the wardrobe!
 
GrumpyMom said:
Does stand know if you've been on your feet most of the day? Yesterday I finally managed to fill the exercise ring because I was on the go since early afternoon but for the first time in weeks I failed to make my stand goal!
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The Stand one now only seems to work if your arm is by your side. You don't even have to be standing for it to register...! If you're or doing anything that leaves your arm parallel to the floor while you're standing, it doesn't seem to matter how long you're on your feet, you won't get the credit.

If you keep your arm perpendicular to the floor while you're up, you shouldn't have a problem-- even 30 seconds or so of this will do. I read that tip on here a while back, and I haven't had a problem closing my Stand circle since.
 
I work at a job currently where I'm always on my feet, so that's a piece of cake. I do move my hands a lot, but my whole body isn't really moving too much so I worry my "move" goal is inaccurate. Maybe it's not; I don't know anything about fitness. It's a neat way to "gamify" fitness as I am so uninterested in it but I most certainly need to be.

dannyyankou said:
Calories, because I set it pretty high. Goal is 1,000/day.
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Yeah, you're crazy. :D
 
Exercise by far. The stand thing is one I almost always fill. Even at my desk job, I have to stand to go to the printer or walk down the hall to the bathroom. It's rare that I go the full hour without getting up. But on a day off if it's a nap day, I don't mind missing it.

I'm good about calories at 700. The fewest calories I burned this week was 525 on Friday, and that's because I didn't even get to get out for a break at work. Just walking around Home Depot or Target will eat up a huge chunk of that. Then when I use my indoor bike, I usually have no trouble hitting it. I think I get a few too many calories counted while driving, like maybe 30 or 50 going 35 miles. So that's why I went up from 650 to 700. But since I don't fill it every day, I like it there so I can be pushed to keep going.

Exercise, ugh. I've been going to college half time and working full time. Just as college was ending for the summer, work got nuts. So mentally doing 30 minutes a day is very hard. Only rarely will I get credit for exercise when walking normally. With my bike it all counts. I'm recovering from a longtime ankle injury, so it's still tough to keep a pace while moving my feet. But I have been biking more wince getting the watch, so that's a success to me.
 
akm3 said:
My initial move goal was like 850 calories. Is that because I'm heavy (235lbs) so I burn more calories? Or that I exercise regularly already so it knew I already got lots of exercise?
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I think weight has a lot to do with the calorie goal. Mine is similar at about 830 which I only hit when I have gone to the gym or done a lot of walking.
 
anez said:
.....If you keep your arm perpendicular to the floor while you're up, you shouldn't have a problem-- even 30 seconds or so of this will do. I read that tip on here a while back, and I haven't had a problem closing my Stand circle since.
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...and so you are 'winning' by cheating who?:rolleyes:
 
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anez said:
The Stand one now only seems to work if your arm is by your side. You don't even have to be standing for it to register...! If you're or doing anything that leaves your arm parallel to the floor while you're standing, it doesn't seem to matter how long you're on your feet, you won't get the credit.

If you keep your arm perpendicular to the floor while you're up, you shouldn't have a problem-- even 30 seconds or so of this will do. I read that tip on here a while back, and I haven't had a problem closing my Stand circle since.
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Thanks for the tips. I am standing almost all day lately so it seems ludicrous I wouldn't make my stand goal, yet I am often just one stinking hour short at the stroke of midnight. It's been frustrating.

Oh well at least I'm getting more and more fit every day. This watch has been a great motivator even if it is working kind of wonky.
 
Julien said:
...and so you are 'winning' by cheating who?:rolleyes:
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"Cheating" the unfortunate system where a ten-minute walk when you happen to be holding something doesn't count as a Stand credit seems like a win to me. My point about it not being necessary to stand was less a suggestion that people shouldn't bother to stand and more to draw attention to the fact that it isn't very reliable.
 
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