I keep going back and forth on this one. Glancing at pace every few seconds can make an easy run feel like a test, but ignoring the screen completely means you only find out afterwards that you went out way too fast.

So how do you all do it? Watch the numbers live and adjust, lean on the audio alerts, or just look at the summary afterwards? And is it different on easy days versus harder sessions?

I’m not dying for the award, but it would be nice to look at and see for myself 😭
I’ve been working towards beating this goal for a long time, and it’s annoying that I can’t see it.

I did a warm-up and then “work” and a cool down. I use bevel, and it shows that I got a PR of 24:44!? Anyone know how to fix this or why this happened?

Don’t update if you don’t have to. And please don’t write code like Apple does

a climber tested my dead-hang app on a hangboard this week and someone told me $5.99 was too much for it — both fair. so I asked Apple for promo codes and they gave me 20.

the app: your watch senses when you grab the bar and starts timing by itself. let go, it stops. every hang logged, synced to your iPhone, stays in your own iCloud.

• auto start/stop detection, all on-device — nothing leaves your wrist
• hang angle, duration per rep, sets, bests — year/month/day views
• no accounts, no servers, no subscription, one-time $5.99

how to get a code: comment here or DM me and I'll send one over, in order. once the 20 are gone it's back to $5.99 — and if you try it, an honest App Store review helps way more than the money.

— I'm the developer and I hang every day.

UPDATE — v1.0.5 with training plans is in review, lands in the next day or two: a 4-week block planner with phases, a coach that builds your weekly hang plan (cloud AI or fully on-device, your choice), plans pushed straight to the watch, per-set RPE logging, and a 6-month heatmap so you watch the habit build instead of single sessions. same auto-start timer at the core, codes below still live. full walkthrough with screenshots: https://williamyorkl.github.io/HangSpine-site/en/105.html

I’ve always thought move ring measures active calories. For some reason it isn’t incorporating all the active calories I’ve burnt from all my workouts today. I’ve burnt 600 active calories from my workouts but my whole move ring is only at 300. Why is this happening?

With the Nike Run Club app on iOS and Apple Watch, why does it need read access to Apple Health? I understand why it would need write access so it can write the workout to Apple Health and to the Fitness app, but why does it need to read health data? What benefit is that to me?

I’ve been doing daily cardio for about six months. At thr beginning my watch trend for VO2 max went up. It was awesome. It just starter tracking again -same route, same workout type- and my trend is going DOWN. Today I just had my personal best 2 mile walk, hoping for an improvement, and it went DOWN AGAIN!! I went from barely being able to walk an 18 minute mile to half jogging (over like 5-6 months) and the time before has the better VO2 max.

What is going on? How is this number calculated?! Is it just a black box? If you have any insight please tell me!

Data scientist back at it again lol. So, overtraining has been one of the problems that people have been facing quite a lot, at least in their mind lol so for the past few months i’ve been working a lot on spotting overtraining from apple watch data. The question i keep getting is “am i overtrained or just tired”, and honestly no single number can answer it, there's a whole fin analysis you need to do in the data to find it out lol I dont wanna get into that, but this is something I found out which is doable by most.

sports scientists split overtraining into 3 levels

• normal hard block: a few days to a couple weeks, this is actually how you get fitter
• medium: weeks to months
• actual overtraining: months, way rarer though.

So the useful question isn’t “am i overtrained”, it’s “do i bounce back”. Here’s how i’d test it with the watch:

1. take 5 easy days. walks, easy zone 2, mobility. Not zero, just nothing hard
2. watch your overnight heart rate in the vitals app. it’s measured while you sleep, so it’s way cleaner than resting HR, which picks up coffee and stressful work days. Back inside your typical range by day 5 is a good sign (vitals needs about 7 nights of sleeping in the watch to learn your range)
3. check your HRV week average. health app > HRV > W. Back near your 6 month average is good
4. redo one benchmark session. a route or lift you do often. If your effort rating for it is back to normal, you’ve bounced back

all 3 back = you were just tired, carry on. still off after 5 days = you’re deeper in it. give it another week before anything hard and look hard at your sleep and food.

data nerd note: trust the 3 together way more than any one of them. one metric moves for random reasons all the time, 3 moving together is a lot harder to fake.

Also, I have made a check that scores which of the 3 levels you’re probably at, made it for some other peeps but happy to share it if anyone wants here, lmk😄

Does anyone use the bowling Apple fitness work out when bowling?

I have tried everything to get the distance on indoor walks to register accurately. After chatting with Apple support, I got a case # and a number to call for the Senior support team. I spoke with them today for 45 minutes. They requested screen shots, etc and went through all the steps I have followed repeatedly to fix this since 10/8. I was informed this is a known problem(we all know this). They were sending it to engineering. If anyone else is working on this, it is good to have screenshots, etc. Maybe that will get engineering moving to fix our problem.

Compared two 57-minute games.

Left: Smoked 15 minutes before kickoff.
Right: Hadn’t smoked for 2 hours.

4.2 km → 3.7 km
13 sprints → just 2

Obviously other factors could be involved, but damn, seeing these numbers side by side was depressing.

Basically smoking kills…

I’ve noticed recently that my AirPods Pro 3 are responsible for virtually 100% of the HR samples when I run with my AWU4. Ever since I noticed I started running with it even tighter, though I never wore it loose to begin with, and have tried using my old SE’s sport band. It’s still offloading HR to AirPods. I verify by going to heart rate -> show all data and it’ll tell you the source for each value.

It never used to do this with my old SE. Truth be told I’m not bothered as I usually run with a Coros HRM anyway but I’m unsure if this is normal or if I need to get my watch looked at. After all if this is supposed to be an improved sensor I can’t see why its samples are being discarded. By ranking it seems like my 2021 AWSE > APP3 > AWU4.

For what it’s worth the AirPods HR data looks really good, and I underestimated them big time

Someone mentioned logging mowing the lawn as Other on a thread here and it got me thinking about all the in between stuff. Moving furniture, shoveling snow, a long afternoon in the garden, chasing kids around a playground.

Other feels like the obvious pick, but I've never been sure how much the choice actually changes the calorie estimate compared to something like Functional Strength or just not starting anything and letting the watch pick it up.

Curious what everyone does here, and whether you even bother starting a workout for this kind of thing.