Apple Watch 'Close Your Rings' page updated with new athlete stories
A trio of new stories have popped up on the Apple Watch "Close Your Rings" page, including ones from a kick boxer, a Nike Run Club coach, and a professional yoga instructor-turned-DJ.
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Apple has refreshed its "Close Your Rings" page, highlighting a new set of Apple Watch wearers sharing their stories of closing their rings. Each story is accompanied by a short video highlighting the ways each user works toward meeting their activity goals while wearing their Apple Watch.
The first story focuses on Yoyo S., a kick boxer who sings the praises of the Apple Watch's competitions feature, "With the competitions feature, I can see my friends moving and exercising. It gets me out of bed."
The next story features a yoga instructor, surfer, and DJ named Jessica, who said "The rings turn it into a game. Even if you're not trying to hit a target, you close them just for fun." Her story highlights how the Apple Watch can track all kinds of activity, regardless of whether she's surfing, doing yoga, or dancing while she DJs.
"If you're bored, just move. Jump around. Pick something up and throw it. Enjoy yourself." Says Cory W-M, a Nike Run Club coach. He's the captain of the Track Mafia running club and a fitness instructor and believes in closing his rings every day.
Others featured in the past include Hailey A, a swimmer for the U.S. National team, Jason L., an orchestra conductor, and Eric G, a 65 year old who uses the Apple Watch to track his outdoor walks.
The Apple Watch continues to be an incredibly useful tool to wearers. The Apple Watch has been credited with saving peoples' lives thanks to fall detection, and will soon expand into women's health with menstrual tracker Cycle, set to debut in iOS 13.
Image Credit: Apple
Apple has refreshed its "Close Your Rings" page, highlighting a new set of Apple Watch wearers sharing their stories of closing their rings. Each story is accompanied by a short video highlighting the ways each user works toward meeting their activity goals while wearing their Apple Watch.
The first story focuses on Yoyo S., a kick boxer who sings the praises of the Apple Watch's competitions feature, "With the competitions feature, I can see my friends moving and exercising. It gets me out of bed."
The next story features a yoga instructor, surfer, and DJ named Jessica, who said "The rings turn it into a game. Even if you're not trying to hit a target, you close them just for fun." Her story highlights how the Apple Watch can track all kinds of activity, regardless of whether she's surfing, doing yoga, or dancing while she DJs.
"If you're bored, just move. Jump around. Pick something up and throw it. Enjoy yourself." Says Cory W-M, a Nike Run Club coach. He's the captain of the Track Mafia running club and a fitness instructor and believes in closing his rings every day.
Others featured in the past include Hailey A, a swimmer for the U.S. National team, Jason L., an orchestra conductor, and Eric G, a 65 year old who uses the Apple Watch to track his outdoor walks.
The Apple Watch continues to be an incredibly useful tool to wearers. The Apple Watch has been credited with saving peoples' lives thanks to fall detection, and will soon expand into women's health with menstrual tracker Cycle, set to debut in iOS 13.
Comments
I thought you could set the level?
I find that most fitness programs have you reach goals just by living. It's annoying for those who don't drive. Sometimes I'll be sitting down in the middle of the day and get a "congratulations" or something and I'm like "I didn't even do anything today"
It appears by your comment that you may not understand the Stand ring. Credit for 1 hour is earned by Standing (and moving) for 1 minute in that hour. If I put my Apple Watch on at 6:55 am and start my morning routine I will have earned 2 Stand hours by 7:05. That makes sense to me.
I get Exercise minutes all day long, frequently without starting a workout. If I run up 6 flights of stairs my heart rate increases and I’m getting exercise. The watch counts that without me starting a workout. That also makes sense to me.
The exercise goal is 30 mins a day, if you exceed that by riding to work then that’s all there is to it...the rings aren’t meant as a tool for serious training. Most normals find it challenging just to meet the minimum suggested per day. The Workouts app is more suited, and a specialist third party app even more so.
Sounds like you’re very active and don’t need a stone-simple motivator tool. Good on you. Doesn’t mean it’s pointless.
Does not match my experience. Also, the exercise ring minutes are not dependent on you starting a workout in the Workouts app, FYI. If walking causes you to experience an elevated heart rate, that will count.
Maybe it requires the GPS to see you are moving before it ticks off exercise minutes and on a treadmill it explicitly requires you to tell it you are exercising because the GPS can’t tell?
The rings are meant for general, everyday tracking by everybody.
For athletes Apple offers the Activity app on the Apple Watch and iPhone
For serious athletes there are 3rd party apps that expand on the capabilities of the Activity app and Health apps.
For myself, I use a 3rd party app to track my exercise but rely on the rings for my non-exercise day(s). And, in any case, I look at them monthly to see if I closed them everyday. If not, my feeling is, in the words of the guard in Shawshank Redemption: "You'd better be either sick or dead" ...