Keeping track of your daily exercise is a great motivator, and the Activity app on Apple Watch is designed to help you achieve your fitness goals. To ensure your progress counts towards your Exercise ring, it’s important to understand how your Apple Watch tracks your activity and where you can view these “tracks” to monitor your workouts effectively. The Activity app recognizes movement that matches or exceeds the intensity of a brisk walk, both for everyday activity and recorded workouts in the Workout app. If you find your exercise isn’t always being credited, it might be because the intensity level wasn’t consistently met throughout your activity. Let’s explore how to ensure accurate tracking and where to watch your workout tracks for the best results.
To begin, the definition of a brisk walk is personalized, depending on your individual health data. It’s crucial to verify that your personal information is correctly entered in the Health settings. You can do this directly on your iPhone. Simply open the Watch app, navigate to the “My Watch” tab, then go to “Health” and select “Edit”. Review your details, make any necessary adjustments, and tap “Done”. Accurate personal data ensures your Apple Watch correctly interprets your activity levels and accurately tracks your exercise “tracks”.
For outdoor cycling, using the Workout app and selecting “Outdoor Cycle” is the most precise method to record your activity. When you cycle outdoors with your iPhone nearby (make sure Location Services and Bluetooth are enabled), your Apple Watch leverages the iPhone’s GPS. This integration significantly improves the accuracy of distance and speed calculations, providing more reliable workout “tracks” to review.
Calibration plays a vital role in enhancing the precision of various activity estimations, including your Exercise goal progress. Resetting your calibration data and recalibrating your watch can be beneficial. This process can refine how your Apple Watch interprets your movements and ensures more accurate workout “tracks” are recorded and displayed.
If you prefer to gain Exercise credit for the entire duration of a workout, regardless of intensity, the Workout app offers a solution. By selecting “Other” as the activity type, you’ll receive one Exercise minute for every full minute of your workout. Active calories will be estimated based on either a brisk walk equivalent or heart rate sensor data, whichever is higher. This option provides a consistent way to log your workout “tracks” even when the intensity varies.
For more detailed information on maximizing your Apple Watch’s activity tracking and understanding where to watch your workout “tracks”, refer to these Apple Support resources:
