Walk, run or wheel 5 kilometers with Apple Watch to earn 2019's Thanksgiving activity badg...
Apple's next Apple Watch activity challenge will fall on Thanksgiving, with owners eligible to receive a turkey-themed badge when they complete a 5-kilometer walk, run or wheelchair workout.
As with previous Turkey Day Activity Challenges, the 2019 event requires users participate in a workout with a length of at least 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles. The return of Apple's Thanksgiving Day challenge was discovered by Kyle Seth Gray, who subsequently posted the information on Twitter.
"Keep active this Thanksgiving! Earn this special award on November 28 by doing any walk, run, or wheelchair workout of at least 5K (3.1mi)," Gray's tweet reads.
Apple introduced an activity challenge celebrating the popular U.S. holiday in 2016, and followed it up with an identical event in 2017. For reasons unknown, the company elected to forego the challenge in 2018.
Like past Thanksgiving Day badges, the 2019 version features a holiday themed design complete with turkey feathers and text denoting the completion of a 5K workout.
Apple Watch activity challenges are held throughout the year to mark special occasions, holidays and other world or country-specific events, the most recent of which landed on Veterans Day on Monday.
As with previous Turkey Day Activity Challenges, the 2019 event requires users participate in a workout with a length of at least 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles. The return of Apple's Thanksgiving Day challenge was discovered by Kyle Seth Gray, who subsequently posted the information on Twitter.
"Keep active this Thanksgiving! Earn this special award on November 28 by doing any walk, run, or wheelchair workout of at least 5K (3.1mi)," Gray's tweet reads.
Apple introduced an activity challenge celebrating the popular U.S. holiday in 2016, and followed it up with an identical event in 2017. For reasons unknown, the company elected to forego the challenge in 2018.
Like past Thanksgiving Day badges, the 2019 version features a holiday themed design complete with turkey feathers and text denoting the completion of a 5K workout.
Apple Watch activity challenges are held throughout the year to mark special occasions, holidays and other world or country-specific events, the most recent of which landed on Veterans Day on Monday.
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Drive?
LOL
Claiming Apple doesn’t care about the disabled when they have the most comprehensive accessibility features in the business is a bit rich.
As for this challenge, it’s a 5k, which is about 45-60 minutes if walking. That is not an unusually long duration for a very large percentage of those capable of walking.
I personally don’t see. The point of these silly badges. They do nothing.
The U.S. spends $3.5 TRILLION each year on healthcare -- far more than we can afford. Well, actually, it's not healthcare. It's DiseaseManagement that (mostly) just treats the symptoms of chronic diseases caused largely unhealthy lifestyles.
Apple is one of the few who are encouraging people to lead healthier lifestyles. The government isn't doing anything and the healthcare and food industries certainly aren't. If anything, they are sabotaging efforts at encouraging healthy lifestyles.
Unhealthy lifestyles in this country are causing an epidemic of lifestyle related diseases and bankrupting the country trying to pay to treat them.
And people definitely try to earn them, so saying "they do nothing" is clearly incorrect.
There isn't anything to doubt about their effectiveness. People enjoy getting the awards and exercise in order to get them. The award did it's job every time someone earns one.
'C'mon Apple...' What a moroon.
Don't quit your day job.
A woman I know at the gym has an Apple Watch. She came to me one day wanting to show she had climbed something in the area of 139 flights that Saturday and was perplexed as to why it was so high. She noticed that for Sunday and Monday her flights climbed were in the teens which seemed much more reasonable to her. She was convinced there was something wrong with her Apple Watch.
As it turned out, that month the Watch had given her a challenge to walk or run a certain number of miles. She was very behind and was afraid she wouldn't complete the challenge. The Saturday in question she started an Outdoor Walk workout on her watch, got into her car and drove home from the beach. She didn't want to overdo it so ended her workout shortly into her drive, but long enough in that the watch had recorded her going up and down some hills. Oops. Her squirming in embarrassment was fun to watch.
So, yeah, "drive" is also a possibility for those who don't mind cheating themselves.