r/AppleWatchFitness

Hi, recently whenever I record a workout on Strava on my Apple Watch it doesn’t record my heart rate. When I use apple fitness to record a workout my heart rate is recorded normally but it’s just Strava where it isn’t working.

I’ve tried disconnecting and reconnecting my watch but that hasn’t worked.

I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this?

I've been debating whether to buy a fitness watch, but I'm not sure I'd actually get enough value out of it.

For outdoor walks and runs, I mostly care about accurate GPS routes, distance, pace and keeping a history of my workouts, I don't really use sleep tracking or a lot of advanced health metrics.

For people who have used both, did a Garmin, Fitbit, or apple watch make a noticeable difference, or is modern phone GPS already good enough for most runners?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been tracking my calories daily with Yazio for about a week now to lose weight, and my current daily goal is set to around 1,700 calories.

However, whenever I burn extra active calories using my smartwatch, the app automatically increases my calorie limit. Sometimes it shoots up to over 2,000 calories for the day, and it's making me wonder: if I eat up to that higher limit, am I actually still in a calorie deficit?

How do you guys usually handle this? Should I be eating back those exercise calories, or should I stick strictly to my base goal? Thanks for any advice.

TLDR: I'm looking for a run tracking app that I open once when I leave the house, that prompts me to do the different phases of my workout without having to touch it during, and provides detailed data at the end. Is that a thing?

I started running using the Watch to 5K app (later upgraded to 10K), which I love. In that app, all runs start with a 5 min warmup walk, then shift to runs of various lengths, then conclude with a 5 min cooldown walk. The app moves between the segments automatically and it's easy to see how long you have left in each segment (e.g., if you're doing a 30 min run the 5 mins you walked first does not influence your time remaining), you don't have to do anything to the watch to get it to keep going from warmup to run to cooldown, and it announces to you that it's time to do the next thing. Afterward you see three workouts in Fitness and Health--a walk, a run, and another walk. This means that the warmup and cooldown paces are separated from the run pace. 

I got very used to this approach but the W25K app doesn't capture all the data the native Fitness app captures, so I'm experimenting (also I'm now a few months past the plan). I can't seem to get my watch to mimic the behavior I want, though.

If I select an outdoor run with warmup and cooldown intervals in Apple Fitness, it seems like I have to advance the watch manually to get it to the next interval, and it seems like the pace calculation includes the warmup and cooldown times?

I can start an outdoor walk for warmup, then swipe, +,  start an outdoor run, then repeat again for cooldown but that's a lot of watching and swiping with sweaty hands. Also, if I'm not paying attention it seems like the watch doesn't stop when I've hit the goal time/distance, so it just keeps me going as "open goal"?

I can just walk for 5 mins on each end of a run without tracking those as part of the workout, but I feel like I’m losing credit after months of getting credit for those walk segments. Petty I know, but here we are.

Is there a way to build a custom workout, or string of workouts, to do what I want? Or is there a better run tracking app than Apple Fitness, that captures all the data but can function the way I want?

Bonus question: as a new runner I don’t know why I would want the app to work the way Apple Workout seems to, but surely I am missing something. Can you explain how you use it to track your runs?

Sorry for the dumb questions but I'm confused and I hate realizing at the end of my run that I've once again messed up the tracking...

In the Health app, you can look at a graph of each activity. That graph can be displayed in days, weeks, months, 6 months or year. (D W M 6M Y) along the top of the graph. These buttons are now completely unresponsive and each graph that I look at for any activity is stuck on whatever time it was on. It can be swept left or right, but cannot change the time range. Anyone know how to fix this?

I recently* got an Apple Watch. I’ve never used one before.
I set it up and enabled all settings so they would be synced with my phone and StepsApp. However, my watch doesn’t track my steps with Workout, and only seems to *begin* tracking if I’m jogging, so then the numbers will say I’m only exercising for 10 minutes when I’ve been walking for well over an hour, so my Exercise ring is never full. :(

On Saturday I walked 11k steps, which reflected in Steps App, but not in Fitness.

They don’t match, why is it so difficult to get things to work? The Sync button should be capable. Am I just stupid?? (Yes, but come on).

Apple is reportedly working on a fitness band with no screen. 

Everything actually reported, everything still unknown, and what it means if you are deciding what to put on your wrist today.