New 'Close Your Rings' minisite encourages using Apple Watch Activity app
Apple has created a new website, "Close Your Rings," explaining how the Apple Watch's Activity app works and some of the ways people can reach its "Move," "Exercise," and "Stand" goals.
The site's Move section, for example, provides a brief intro to the concept of active calories, and shows how to change daily goals. It also suggests picking an Activity-themed watchface, or at least adding the appropriate complication.
The health benefits of closing rings are a recurring theme.
"30 minutes of brisk activity every day can help minimize the chance of stroke, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and weight gain," the Exercise section says. "It can also help improve sleep and mood, as well as reduce stress."
Apple also highlights Challenges and Achievements, and the Watch's wheelchair support, which changes Stand to "Roll," and identifies different arm movements when counting Move and Exercise data.
The company has made the Activity app a focus in both internal and external marketing. This year the company held its second annual "Close the Rings" event, encouraging workers to hit certain goals in exchange for rewards -- the top prize being a unique Watch band.
The site's Move section, for example, provides a brief intro to the concept of active calories, and shows how to change daily goals. It also suggests picking an Activity-themed watchface, or at least adding the appropriate complication.
The health benefits of closing rings are a recurring theme.
"30 minutes of brisk activity every day can help minimize the chance of stroke, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and weight gain," the Exercise section says. "It can also help improve sleep and mood, as well as reduce stress."
Apple also highlights Challenges and Achievements, and the Watch's wheelchair support, which changes Stand to "Roll," and identifies different arm movements when counting Move and Exercise data.
The company has made the Activity app a focus in both internal and external marketing. This year the company held its second annual "Close the Rings" event, encouraging workers to hit certain goals in exchange for rewards -- the top prize being a unique Watch band.
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I can’t say the Watch is the only reason, but it has motivated me when nothing else before it did!
I don’t think I’ll bother.
Inspiring work though!
Pity there seems not to be a German version of it.
Everyday I'm doing over 2000KJ with I believe my highest being around 5000KJ so it depends on what my day is like. Add to that a 1 year old boy and I get my rings closed pretty well.
I also use Human which records most weekdays as getting over 300 minutes of workout.
Funnily enough the Stand ring is usually the one that closes first and I often record over 14 hours of standing. That's not because it records the riding weird it's because I have to get off the bike so often as well as 2 to 3 hours standing while I sort my mail.
It would have been nice to see what I was doing each day working in IT but I couldn't afford an Apple Watch then.