Don’t you love it when there are so many different milestones throughout the year that marks exercise occasions? Global Running Day is on 4 June, and Apple Watch users get another opportunity to earn a digital award of at least 5KM with any app that adds workouts to the Health app.
Here are a few tips to optimize your experience on the Workout app on Apple Watch.
- Running Metrics allow you to observe and monitor your Vertical Oscillation, Stride Length, Ground Contact Time and Power
- Workout Views allow you to harness actionable data that you can view during a workout, and you can edit it accordingly before starting your workout
- Custom Workouts give you the flexibility to combine distance and time goals to set up a structured workout. You can also add new alerts to any specific part of your workout, and these alerts will guide you with both haptic and voice feedback to inform you when to switch between work and recovery
- You can use the Pacer to choose a distance, a target finish time, and gives you the required pace you need to sustain to achieve your training goal
- Your Apple Watch can detect when you arrive at any standard shaped outdoor track, and leverages both Apple Maps data and GPS to provide the most accurate distance, pace and route map with Automatic Track Detection
- Race Route shows your repeated routes in the Workout app so that you can race against your last or best results whenever you want to
- Training Load is my personal favorite as it helps me keep track of the sustainability of my training regime. In other words, this allows you to compare the intensity and duration of your workouts over the past 7 days to what you have done over the past 28 days. Training Load then helps to classify your current training load on a scale from well below to well above. You can then use this data to adjust and calibrate your workouts accordingly.
Apple Watch Series 10 starts at S$599, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 starts at S$1,199.
