Full guide to using the Activity app on Apple Watch

May 5, 2015

Meet the pre-installed Activity app on Apple Watch

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The application "Activity", which is pre-installed on the device Apple Watch, is designed to help you get fit and stay healthy. It does this by setting and tracking progress on three daily goals.

Exercise and stay healthy with the device's activity app Apple Watch, which has been tasked to monitor the combustion targets caloriesthat you have set, every day. In this post we will show you in detail, how you can use the application "Activity", taking advantage of all its features. We will Show also, how you can adjust your goals to improve your health status.

The application "Activity", is accessible from the home screen of the device. You need to press the side button Digital crownto be taken to the home page. Then touch the icon with the three coloured circles - red – green – Blue.

Application configuration

Press the virtual button "Get started", in order to fill in your personal details: gender, age, weight, height, etc. (When entering information, you can scroll down or up, looking for possible answers, using the Digital crown, scrolling up or down.

Then your device Apple Watch, will give you some data on how active you are at the moment. Her advice Apple is to aim low if you're not sure you're going to make it. The Apple Watch will take into account the information you have provided and create a (suggested) calorie burning programme on a daily basis.

You are not, of course, obliged to accept it. You can scroll up or down by scrolling up or down. Digital crownto set the desired combustion quantities. Touch the red iconic button "Start moving" to complete the configuration and start counting.

Show daily goals

Want to see your progress? The "Activity", consists of three rings of indications, which are also displayed by the module Glances (Glances).

To display them, Drag the screen to the up, and then left, until you encounter the ring projection.

(You also have the option of adding the "Activity" on the face of your watch screen for even easier viewing. Press and hold your digital watch face, select a different face, and when customizing, add activity information. This action will enable you, at a glance, to have the progress of your goals at any time and by pressing the activity icon you can switch to the app "Activity", for more analysis of your progress information.)

More instructions on how to customise views on your device Apple Watch can be obtained from the following link.

Complete guide to customizing views and information, on Apple Watch

The progress on a daily basis of the three goals is represented by three coloured concentric circles: the red one, which is the outer ring, records the calories burned. The green ring, which is in the middle, records the interval of exercise, while the green ring, which is the red ring, records the number of calories burned. Blue inner circle gives information about your stagnation.

(There are arrows to guide you to remember which one does what. The clockwise oriented arrow is for the calories burned during the movement, the double right arrow shows the course of intense exercise, while the arrow pointing upwards, has to do with the time you are sitting still).

When the red or the green ring, completes a circle, then you have successfully completed the goal you had set. The progress concerning the Blue ring is slightly more complicated. It shows the number of hours you have been standing for at least a minute, on the total of 12ώρου.

We discuss each ring in detail below. Scroll up, using the button Digilal crownto see how many calories, steps or distance you have covered this morning. Alternatively, you can slide the screen to the side to see your rings individual, taking more information about your goal.

On the respective ring if you move the screen upwards (using the Digital crown), you will see the activity and its progress in a graph.

Red Motion Ring

The red movement ring, showing the number of calories you have progressively burned today, through general mobility (large number) and the daily target (small number). As with all rings, the progression of the ring on the clock face reveals how close you are to reaching your goal.

This target is set during the configuration of the application, although you can change it at any time (we will explain later).

To be fitter and healthier you need to step up your goals over time, increasing your average burn rate calories. The app will automatically suggest new higher targets every time you set a new goal. Week, but you can make changes manually, very easily.

Head to the red motion ring, press and hold the screen, then touch the iconic "Change Move Goal", when the target appears, scroll up or down using the Digital crownuntil you are satisfied with the quantity and your new goal. Then press "Update“.

Green ring

The green ring, which is associated with intense exercise, counts the minutes you exercise (including dancing, intense walking as well as your workouts or running). This goal is thirty minutes per day.

Blue ring

As we have mentioned above, the Blue ring, is designed to encourage you to sit less and stand more. You're supposed to stand up every hour and the Blue ring will track the number of hours you have been doing it. The target is set at 12 hours and includes at least one minute of standing, per day.

See more information about your activity from your iPhone

Remember that you can use the activity app to iPhone, whenever you want, to receive more information about your progress: For example, you can get graphs of your activities with time progress, calorie burn and more. You can also see your rewards ("Perfect week" and so on).

Η Apple has visualized all the above information in a video which we attach below.

We analyzed another pre-installed application - "Activity" - of the device Apple Watch, so you'll be ready to use it, taking advantage of all its features, as soon as you receive the popular device. If there are still any questions, please let us know in the comments.

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