Have you ever heard a conversation like this around you?
A "I want to keep exercising, but I really can't stick to it."
B "You buy an Apple Watch, ah, every day can supervise the exercise"
Always stick to the saying in my life, health = exercise. For me, who has been running for 9 years, it is not difficult to squeeze out the "25th hour" to exercise in the limited 24 hours. So in my daily life, every time I hear about such an "interesting" event, I feel funny in my heart.
It is good to exercise this action, or to stick to this belief. Aren't they all delivered by body and will? When will a watch be able to decide? Until this crowd test, I got the three-piece set of Apple Watch, iPhone, and AirPods. I seem to punch my face, and 25 days later I became the one who said the phrase "buy an Apple Watch"...
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Looking back at the experience of Apple equipment and I playing sports together over the years, when Apple had not yet entered the smart watch in the early years, I first tied my iPhone to my arm and opened the NRC app to record my running mileage. At this stage, iPhone will help me record during exercise, and review today's running status after the exercise is over.
Later, I hated the iPhone was really heavy, in fact, I considered the Apple Watch at that time, but the endurance of the year had to challenge the 42km mileage, which was really risky. It later becomes a Piece of Garmin on the wrist, and each run record is automatically synced in the NRC app on the phone. At this stage, the watch and the mobile phone each divide their work, the former to do the record and the latter to do the review.
This time it's the fourth iPhone device I've replaced, the iPhone12. The second headset device, AirPods Pro. The first watch device, the Apple Watch Series 6. And my movement entered the third phase.
Because the NRC record syncs to Apple's Fitness Ring, it's automatically synced in the iPhone's Health and Fitness app. When I want to check my exercise today, I just have to glance at both apps.
Many friends feel that the iPhone cannot play an important role in sports?
In fact, it concentrates the functions of "information integration, analysis, and display". So on the iPhone 12 daily exercise dashboard, my regular sports app changed from NRC to "Fitness" and "Health.". In the health app for iPhone, I count all my daily activity and health habits. I often learn about running time, exercise heart rate, activity energy and so on from this section.
In the past few days of wearing apple watch, not only running, I have also adapted to a lot of new health training. For example, daily breathing and standing reminders, although they cannot be implemented exactly according to the watch reminders, these reminders are like putting a seed, and from time to time a voice in the brain says "sit for a long time and stand more", "meditate for a while when tired"... In order to get together for 12 hours a day to stand, really spell hahaha
At this moment, I was more aware that the so-called supervision exercise of the Apple Watch was really pervasive.
In the familiarization stage, I will also unconsciously check the data on the iPhone 12, always wanting to close the daily ring. Looking at the data in the Health app and the Fitness app, I realized that I had been overconfident in my health habits.
Although I have a long habit of fitness and running, my main job is a designer. When I get inspired by a design, I unconsciously sit in my office chair for hours. Sometimes I ignore the Apple Watch's standing reminder, but when I see the naked record data in the health app on the iPhone 12, the automatic voice in my head will increase the volume of sound.
As for AirPods Pro in the process of exercise, it replaced my AirPods as a new running companion. The noise reduction performance really amazed me. The two modes of transparency and noise reduction can be easily switched between the two scenes of my road running and indoor running.
When running, you can turn on the transparency mode, accompanied by music rhythm and can also hear the movement on the road, which can take care of the safety of outdoor running. In the gym, I used noise reduction mode, and the noise-free environment seemed to pull me out of another clean world and enjoy pure running.
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Why did i switch from Garmin to Apple Watch and I didn't feel too much discomfort with my new device? First, before I got the Apple Watch, I had already gone to the Apple authorized store near home to understand, chatted with the professional clerk for a while, and also played the Apple Watch, and found that the way the product was used was the same, plus I was originally an Apple user, in the time of using iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, etc., I have experienced the comfort of close cooperation between various devices under the Apple ecosystem.
This time, it is the interconnection between iOS, macOS, and WatchOS.
I'm a person who pursues exercise goals, so I regularly have reminders of running things in my calendar. Every afternoon at around 4:30 p.m., my calendar reminds me of what sports I have tonight. This will pop up in the notification bar of my MacBook Pro if I'm in front of my computer at this point, and I'll receive this alert on my iPhone if I happen to be out of my desk. Now with another layer of insurance, the Apple Watch pops up with reminders to inform me of today's goals.
In addition, on the first day of just getting started with the Apple Watch S6, this watch was born with a topic. Friends on the running group would ask, "Is it easy?" "This color scheme is good", these unintentional topics are the manifestation of its social attributes in the sports world. The #给健康腾点时间 #挑战赛 I joined then dragged me into another social world. Form a team with two runners in Guangzhou, and fight with people who want to exercise / love sports at the same time using Apple Watch. A piece of Apple Watch can form a social network.
As a running group leader, I know the meaning of "solo music is not as good as crowd fun" on the road to insisting on sports. And the Apple Watch has expanded my Zhongle music from the Beijing circle to any location. The apple watch-wearing sisters in our running group added "fitness sharing" friends to each other, and today who completed a sport and closed three rings. A notification will be received on the watch, where you can inspire another sister to persevere in their workout.
Corresponding to this small circle of watch wear, I also tried to form an iMessage group, taking advantage of the fresh energy, the sisters will occasionally have their recent athletic achievements in Versailles. And the information in the iMessage, because of the interconnection between the Apple ecology, reply on the MacBook Pro when touching the fish, reply on the iPhone12 when taking the subway, and raise your wrist to see the Apple Watch when it is inconvenient.
AirPods Pro doesn't do the "rich features" expansion here, but the switching across multiple work devices is seamless. When I'm running outdoors, the Watch is a standalone music player. When I was designing, the iPhone 12 played music apple watch remote control. When I'm going to have an online meeting, switching between connecting to AirPods Pro on the MacBook Pro doesn't require much complexity.
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Many friends, like me, will learn to use the three-piece set to push themselves to exercise. But I also believe that there must be quite a few people who use a three-piece suit but don't move. Then you may wish to try to download some health-related apps, enter from a low threshold to try to use this tool and then gradually stimulate your interest.
In the running section, I would recommend the NRC app that I use regularly. Among them, voice running is a super efficient means of running training.
Wearing airPods Pro, you can voice prompt the whole process, telling me every kilometer and the topic that the coach wants to explore: the first 1km, clarify the goal of this run recovery; the second 1km, think about the relationship between speed and running; the third 1km, understand the meaning of persistence... In the process of voice running, it is not simply muscle movement, but the brain provides more information for the movement at the same time to improve the efficiency of exercise. Often when my running training enters a bottleneck, or occasionally when I don't want to run because of inertia, I will use NRC's voice running to assist training and self-encouragement.
Of course, in the Apple Watch's native workout app, there is also an option for running recording. I compared the running recording method in detail, the recording data in the native app is more comprehensive, the climb height, cadence data are in it, there is a very useful function is "pace reminder", I think in the marathon pre-race preparation training, this is really needed. But although these data are comprehensive and professional, they have less of a guiding role for beginners and friends with high inertia.
So my advice is that if the role of each data for running is not clear, then you can try using NRC voice running to assist yourself, learn or motivate running.
Another health app, although the drinking time is not sports, it is a perfect match with the watch, allowing me to experience the potential of the watch as a device to bind reminders and change habits.
When I didn't have an Apple Watch, I had already experienced the app of drinking water time on the iPhone side, and the main role was to remind and record my daily drinking water. However, before on the mobile phone is too much WeChat messages, app notifications disturbed, drinking water reminder prompt bar is often submerged in this information, resulting in the final record intermittent, daily drinking water persistence from time to time.
This time in the Apple Watch side I downloaded the drinking time, the new wrist vibration reminder method is more direct than the iPhone, and raise the wrist can record the amount of water, drinking water category, compared to the iPhone recording method is also much more convenient. And the data of "drinking time" will also be entered into the health app. When I open the daily routine to check my exercise status, it is also convenient to plan the habit development progress of tomorrow and this week more efficiently.
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When I took the new generation of iPhone 12, which had been used for more than a year, the feel made me feel happy. This is the familiarity of the iPhone 5s when I first graduated, but it was a little more rounded than it was in that era. The border is angular, but the edges are not handy. Over the years, iPhone has been my life-recording companion and my commuter assistant.
The auxiliary role of AirPods Pro is more explicit, this audio output gadget. When I'm working on design and fitness, transparency and noise reduction modes switch freely.
In the process of sports health, this time the difference is that I put on the Apple Watch, and the body data I entered into the iPhone was more comprehensive. While being an efficiency assistant, the iPhone has a more systematic statistics on my health supervision, and I will habitually look at the input data in "health" before going to bed every day, and plan and adjust the exercise plan for the week in a timely manner.
In addition to taking on the role of my exercise recorder, I think they will also become my habit supervisors in the future.
At the same time as the efficiency assistant, the iPhone has a more systematic statistics on my health supervision, and I will habitually look at the input data in "health" before going to bed every day, and plan and adjust the exercise plan for the week in a timely manner.
The author of this article is experiencer @Wega Wang, first published in sugar paper crowd testing.