Do you love your Apple Watch?

I like it. I have the non cellular one, and i took it swimming and i liked how accurate it was in determining my lap lengths. It's a lot more accurate than my first gen one and sadly giving me less minutes for excercise and move. but it be fair it was probably not counting it correctly. I do have to set it on outdoor walk when I have the pram because it cant determine I'm walking with a pram, and gives me far less calories than i would get if i did walk without a pram. beyond that I'm really happy with it, and find it really on point and accurate for my calorie counting.

I just got the 4 non-cellular last week and I love it for fitness. It’s fairly intuitive and it’s nice to be able to track my workouts and total movement calories burned over the day.
My only other experience with a fitness watch was the Garmin vivoactive which I liked, but this one has so much more that it does.
My main decision to go this route was that I can have podcasts that I listen to without having to take my phone with me on runs/walks.

I love mine, it keeps me motivated and I love the data.

Regarding the "other" workouts, the reason it seems like there are so few is that they all use the same basic metric to track (as if you are briskly walking) and you can name them afterwards from a quite long list, in the info summary you see when you end the workout. If it's something you use frequently it will appear in your pick list more prevalently.

If you are a multisport type, Garmin has the advantage.

Overall it's good and I enjoy using it. (Series 4, LTE) Assuming you have an IPhone otherwise your wasting your money. The activity rings is a nice feature, especially once you start competing with some friends, extra motivation! I use the strava app (on the watch) which is really nice but you can also use the workout app that comes with the watch. Never had any issues using the watch in the pool, ocean or shower. Probably my favorite feature is text messaging, you can reading and sending texts, even in the middle of a workout if needed. Battery life isn't great though, I charge mine every night, doubt it would last two days. Hope that helps . . good luck!

I absolutely love mine!! I have had one for about 3 years now. I have found that my calories burned both active and resting seem to be pretty active, as when I compare it to my calories consumed I lose or gain the the expected rate. I also love the monthly challenges that come with it and it keeps me motivated to hit the goals everyday.

I have a garmin at the moment, the only thing stopping me getting an Apple is the wife.

I like the convenience of having phone, text, WhatsApp and Viber, too. I like the freedom of being able to leave my phone at home when I walk to the gym or yoga studio, and just taking a walk in general.

I feel like it’s pretty accurate with the calorie counting although there’s no option for weight lifting. But I eat a flat 2000 calories a day so don’t worry if it doesn’t record them.

I do, however, like that I was able to adjust my goal. I hit the default too easily, so bumped it up, and am probably going to bump it up again.

There seems to be a bit of a mismatch between steps on watch versus phone, however that may sort itself out at midnight. I havent sat down and verified that bit.

I also like the reminders that it gives me to stand up, because I frequently find myself immersed in a book and forgetting to move at all.

And call me childish, but I love the little fireworks screen thing when all my goals are met.

I find I prefer the velcro band that came with it because I do a ton of hot classes and it dries out quickly.

One thing that makes me a little nuts, but that I totally understand, is that it sometimes records crochet or needlepoint as “steps” because of the hand motions. So I either swap arms or take it off.

Haven’t figured out how to coordinate audio. I seldom listen to music but I guess I ought to.

There are some apps-like my banking app- that I cannot figure out for the life of me how to use.

Do I love my Apple Watch? I adore my Apple Watch! I am a former FitBit addict and was really nervous about making the switch. Other than missing the familiarity of the FitBit app for about a week the transition was pretty smooth. I feel like the Apple Watch makes me work just a little bit harder to earn those calories while at the same time removing my hyper focus on steps which is a good thing IMO. Add that it’s aesthetically more pleasing and much more functional makes it the better option. Being able to leave my phone in my bag is the icing on the cake.

WholeFoods4Lyfe wrote: »

Thank you everyone. I ended getting the Apple Watch 4 this weekend and so far am loving it!

I hope you can get accustomed to only breathing twice a day. Despite my best efforts I cannot hold my breath for that long in between reminders.