But being a technology person, I am all about my gadgets. I also enjoy fitness pursuits, so I love having an Apple Watch.
I enjoy the Workouts app for tracking, and enjoy the social aspect with several friends and family.
I recently attended a qi gong seminar, and was eager to track it.
Apple Watch is great at certain basic activity tracking like running or walking (indoors or outdoors) and swimming.
But there are a lot of other activities! I will say that the watch does its best to calculate calories based on your heart rate and movement, but my educated guess says that it can be off by a lot. It warns you that it will assume a brisk walk - and I have found times that I think the calories for my workout is way too high because it did exactly that.
So, understand that all these activities are likely for your record tracking and won't give you tons of interesting metrics. And if you can't find anything you like, you can always use "Other."
P.S. I tracked my qi gong class as "Tai Chi" - the icon even matches one of the moves from our class!
Here's the complete list:
- American Football
- Archery
- Australian Football
- Badminton
- Barre
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bowling
- Boxing
- Climbing
- Core Training
- Cricket
- Cross Country Skiing
- Cross Training
- Curling
- Dance
- Disc Sports
- Downhill Skiing
- Elliptical
- Equestrian Sports
- Fencing
- Fishing
- Fitness Gaming
- Flexibility
- Functional Training
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Hand Cycling
- Handball
- High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
- Hiking
- Hockey
- Hunting
- Indoor Cycle
- Indoor Run
- Indoor Walk
- Jump Rope
- Kickboxing
- Lacrosse
- Martial Arts
- Mind & Body
- Mixed Cardio
- Open Water Swim
- Other
- Outdoor Cycle
- Outdoor Run
- Outdoor Walk
- Paddling
- Pilates
- Play
- Pool Swim
- Racquetball
- Rolling
- Rower
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Skating
- Snow Sports
- Snowboarding
- Soccer
- Softball
- Squash
- Stair Stepper
- Stairs
- Step Training
- Strength Training
- Surfing
- Table Tennis
- Tai Chi
- Tennis
- Track & Field
- Volleyball
- Water Fitness
- Water Polo
- Water Sports
- Wrestling
- Yoga
