workout app while “at work”

[Jmoc916]

I know this would drain the battery extremely fast. But I work in an Industry where I am constantly moving . Up stairs, walking around, up ladders. Its sometimes frustrating to see on the chart I have 50 minutes of “exercise” when I bust my butt for a solid 10 hours a day. I am currently using it as my main source for trying to get in shape while i do actual workouts and was wondering if anyone has ever considered doing this.

I understand it only reads when you are still for your resting rate which may be why it shows It so low but I know the calories I’m burning would be way more.

Not a big issue, was just curious

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

I know this would drain the battery extremely fast. But I work in an Industry where I am constantly moving . Up stairs, walking around, up ladders. Its sometimes frustrating to see on the chart I have 50 minutes of “exercise” when I bust my butt for a solid 10 hours a day. I am currently using it as my main source for trying to get in shape while i do actual workouts and was wondering if anyone has ever considered doing this.

I understand it only reads when you are still for your resting rate which may be why it shows It so low but I know the calories I’m burning would be way more.

Not a big issue, was just curious

When no workout is active the Apple Watch doesn't even use HR anyway for calorie burn (I'm almost positive), so it only really uses movement. And that movement won't take into account going up stairs or carrying things.

As you indicate logging a workout for 10 straight hours would kill your battery. It's possible a brand new S3 could handle it, but there's definitely a good chance it could go from 100% to dead. Of course you can always test, no harm. There is also a power saving mode which doesn't record HR during a workout. But that will drastically reduce accuracy and will most likely just give a consistent "fast walk" caloric burn which is used as a baseline for "Other" workouts. (and then you'd have to always manually turn it back on during a real workout, assuming you wanted your real HR/caloric burn recorded for those). Another consideration is that your watch face will show your active workout as the default view which could make using the watch during work a little more difficult.

My personal opinion is that I wouldn't worry about not getting enough "credit" for your work. It's not worth the effort to me. You can still get all the full credit from "real" workouts!

 

[BorderingOn]

I find that my exercise ring will close doing pretty much anything that raises my heart rate. Now that could be based purely on movement. Not sure. But I do know setting a workout and not getting your heart rate up will not close the ring. Also, movement that does not raise your heart rate does close the move ring. Just my $.02 anecdote.

 

[MJ22]

I find that my exercise ring will close doing pretty much anything that raises my heart rate. Now that could be based purely on movement. Not sure. But I do know setting a workout and not getting your heart rate up will not close the ring. Also, movement that does not raise your heart rate does close the move ring. Just my $.02 anecdote.

Mine is the same way. I get the exercise credit and I do get Move calories though maybe not as many as if it was actually logged on as a workout. I guess the main difference is you don’t get the logged Workout with a specific breakdown of data.

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

I find that my exercise ring will close doing pretty much anything that raises my heart rate. Now that could be based purely on movement. Not sure. But I do know setting a workout and not getting your heart rate up will not close the ring. Also, movement that does not raise your heart rate does close the move ring. Just my $.02 anecdote.

Yes that's my understanding is that during non-workout the exercise ring is 100% based on movement (basically fast walking). Also my understanding is that an "other" workout will close the ring and burn calories regardless of movement and HR (at least that's how it used to be). But running/biking/etc workouts are dependent on HR (with perhaps some combination of movement/distance)

 

[ftaok]

Honestly, does the exercise ring even matter? You got 50 minutes which means you closed it. You can't change the goal too anything else, so what's the difference between 30 or 50 or 10 hours?

The main thing (IMO) is whether you get enough credit for the move ring. That's what would bother me.

 

[Sam Luis Obispo]

When no workout is active the Apple Watch doesn't even use HR anyway for calorie burn (I'm almost positive), so it only really uses movement. And that movement won't take into account going up stairs or carrying things.

As you indicate logging a workout for 10 straight hours would kill your battery. It's possible a brand new S3 could handle it, but there's definitely a good chance it could go from 100% to dead. Of course you can always test, no harm. There is also a power saving mode which doesn't record HR during a workout. But that will drastically reduce accuracy and will most likely just give a consistent "fast walk" caloric burn which is used as a baseline for "Other" workouts. (and then you'd have to always manually turn it back on during a real workout, assuming you wanted your real HR/caloric burn recorded for those). Another consideration is that your watch face will show your active workout as the default view which could make using the watch during work a little more difficult.

My personal opinion is that I wouldn't worry about not getting enough "credit" for your work. It's not worth the effort to me. You can still get all the full credit from "real" workouts!

My wife and I both purchased iPhone 6S at the same time. She has an Apple Watch. I do not. We noticed that my iPhone keeps track of number of flights of stairs climbed. Her iPhone no longer tracks stairs climbed. Is there a setting to allow her iPhone to track number of stairs climbed?

 

[DoubleFlyaway]

My wife and I both purchased iPhone 6S at the same time. She has an Apple Watch. I do not. We noticed that my iPhone keeps track of number of flights of stairs climbed. Her iPhone no longer tracks stairs climbed. Is there a setting to allow her iPhone to track number of stairs climbed?

Yes... there’s a place in the health app to choose source of data. You set which is the primary.
[doublepost=1515563817][/doublepost]To give you an idea of battery drain, today I had my S3 log three hours of working out (I have a bike desk). I’m still at 69 percent at 1 a.m.

 

[kohlson]

I have 50 minutes of “exercise” when I bust my butt for a solid 10 hours a day.

I walk 2+ miles every morning. Depending on if it's cold (hands in gloves) or not (hands in pockets) changes the amount of "exercise" that is registered. But with 19 min/mile walks, which take 40-50 minutes of actual time, my watch registers 15 or so minutes. Last summer I went on a 6 mile walk with a 15+ pound pack. Same pace. Actual time about 3 hours. Registered exercise about 90 minutes.
I just accept that it underreports exercise, even when using the app.

 

[JackieInCo]

I walk 2+ miles every morning. Depending on if it's cold (hands in gloves) or not (hands in pockets) changes the amount of "exercise" that is registered. But with 19 min/mile walks, which take 40-50 minutes of actual time, my watch registers 15 or so minutes. Last summer I went on a 6 mile walk with a 15+ pound pack. Same pace. Actual time about 3 hours. Registered exercise about 90 minutes.
I just accept that it underreports exercise, even when using the app.

I don't think it underreports exactly. It will only count walking if it's at a brisk enough pace. It appears that sometimes you are walking to slow for it to count as exercise minutes in the app.

I walk 4-5 miles every morning and I have about 16.02-16.10 minutes and every minute of my walks count as exercise minutes in the app.

 

[kohlson]

I don't think it underreports exactly. It will only count walking if it's at a brisk enough pace.

I believe the issue is that the HR monitor loses "connection" with me. I base this on exercise units registered for what are essentially the same walk at the same pace, plus looking at the HR graph. Some recent examples. Two days ago I walked 2.65 miles in 51 minutes. At the end of the walk, 28 minutes of exercise was registered. Looking at the HR graph, what should be a relatively smooth plot has more than a passing resemblance to a scatterplot. Today was 2.56 miles in 47 minutes. This registered as 38 minutes of exercise. The HR graph is much closer to a line. As well, when I was running for 2 miles in 18-20 minutes, that usually registered 10-12 minutes - also with a non-linear HR line.
Some of this may be a personal preference thing. I wear my watch somewhat loose.