This is just a group of OCD types who think knowing this information will some how make them a better athlete. Yes there is group people seem to make a big deal about it ,however, there is no benefit to knowing this information unless you doing some sort of research and your tracking how a specific activity changes your heart rate over time. Side note: After my first six months of daily workouts, I wrote about three things that helped me build that habit.Prior to the watch coming out and I am no Fitness nut either I was researching fitness and activities monitors, the general consensuses among those who seem to know is there is no reason to track your heart rate constantly as you exercise. Daily workouts are merely a part of my habit and system for staying healthy.īeing intentional and actually caring about my health… that is what matters to me in the end. My goal is not to work out every day… my goal is to be healthy. There is so much more that goes in to play with being healthy: my diet, sleep, drinking water, taking care of my body, etc… Nearly two years of closing my daily activity rings has brought a significant, overall shift in my health. Meaning… if the watch battery dies on me during the day, I don’t worry about it. There are many things I love about it beyond the fitness tracking.īut I’m not as singularly obsessed with closing all my Activity Rings as I used to be. In short, I don’t care about the daily tracking as much as I used to. But I am now able to maintain that habit without the need to keep track of it every single day.
The Apple Watch played a critical role in helping me build a daily workout habit. I have developed a workout habit, and not a day goes by that I don’t spend at least 15-20 minutes doing something intentional for my physical health. It’ll be 365 days of perfect activity and workouts completed with my Apple Watch. In some ways, it makes me sad that I won’t have those 731 days worth of perfectly completed circles all in a row, the way I did for the first 365 days.īig day, tomorrow. It’s a shorter cycle to reset.Īs I write this, I am less than 60 days away from completing my second year - 731 days 1 - of perfect activity rings on my Apple Watch…. And if, for whatever reason, you don’t complete all your rings one day during a week or month, you can start back over pretty. The week- and month-long challenge awards are much more attainable. Imagine how frustrating it would be to work toward that award, only to have the streak broken because of a hardware failure of some sort.
That meant there were three days in a row that my Watch didn’t record any activity whatsoever, despite the fact I was up from sunrise to sunset going on hikes, rowing a canoe, walking around a lake, and cutting logs for firewood.Ībout a year ago, when I completed my first 365 days of perfect activity, I was curious as to why Apple didn’t have an award for having a perfect activity year, the same way they do for a perfect week.īut then, after my streak was “broken” over this summer because of the Apple Watch’s battery, I think I know why Apple doesn’t have that 365 award. Of course, my Apple Watch died because, well, we were out in a forest in the mountains and I didn’t bother to bring any chargers. It felt great to get away from my the keyboard for a bit before jumping back into the best job in the world. Last week I was in the mountains with my family. But, well, I was lazy and never did.Ī few weeks later, my family and I went camping for a few days in Colorado. I was going to go back in to the Health app the next day and manually add my activity. That was the first day since October 2018 that my Apple Watch didn’t “complete” all my activity rings. I checked on the Activity app in my iPhone to see that my Watch had only recorded a couple of standing hours, and about one-third of my normal activity.
APPLE WATCH BATTERY TRACKER FULL
The first thing I thought about was, naturally, how full my Activity Rings were. I was in the middle of an early afternoon meeting at the time, and then several hours went by and I had completely forgotten that I was walking around with my Watch on even though the battery was dead.Īt the end of the day, when I went to set my Watch back on the charger, I remembered it had been out of battery. I didn’t realize until later in the day that my Watch battery had died. When that happens, I put the Watch back on the charger and give it a half hour to charge back up while I make coffee and do some writing.īut this time was different. I’ll wake up and when I go to put on the Watch, I’ll see that it only has 20-percent battery remaining.
One night back in June, my Apple watch wasn’t quite connected to its charger.