Can I wear my Apple Watch while boxing/working out with a heavy bag (hitting it repeatedly)? Can it take the impact from the hits?

The only way to know for sure, is for you to try it out yourself.

Let us know what happens.

Since you do sparring and bag work, perhaps you would know of a wrist-wearable device containing a force transducer. It would at least provide a starting point to determine force due to acceleration for a typical punch. If you did, it would be possible to equate that to the force due to acceleration resulting from dropping the Watch onto a solid surface such as a wooden table.

I can't find any meaningful data on that subject, but it seems to me that dropping a Watch even a few centimeters onto a night stand would subject it to a greater force than you would hitting a bag with it strapped to your wrist. The Watch can move quite a bit while strapped to your arm, even if it were bound by tape and a glove, which means it won't decelerate nearly as fast as dropping it from a height so small no one would think twice about it.

The Watch has no shock resistance rating, no surprise since the only ISO standard that I know of only applies to mechanical watches. Casio's "G-Shock" series alleges survival from a 10m drop onto a "hard surface". If Casio advertises that force in engineering units I can't find it. I seriously doubt any Watch would survive a similar test without exterior damage though, and wrapping a Watch in protective material to preclude exterior damage would render any comparison invalid.

If you can tell me you hit a bag with x number of g as measured by some wrist-worn device, then I might be able to equate that to the force resulting from dropping a Watch from a height of y cm onto a tabletop. However, there will still be several unknown variables requiring reasonable assumptions to be made.

I have been wearing my Apple Watch for a year and a half. Inbox 6 days a week with it on. I move it up my wrist a bit so it is above my wraps but still under my boxing gloves. I use a black sport band, it's the only one that seems to hold up.

Not a heavy bag, but at 0:23 of Apple's own commercial the watch is worn while using a speed bag. Apple Watch Series 2 — Go Time - YouTube

I'd have the same concern about wrap being obnoxious with it, though. I would not have thought twice about the amount of impact it receives, but that has me curious now, just generally.

I don't think any watch is intended for such use. I wouldn't wear mine. (But in your case, I've seen you hit, so it shouldn't really matter. 😁)

I am seriously interested in what Apple would have to say. I am wondering if it would hurt it. I would like to continue to listen to music with it, and have it monitor my heart rate.

read their specs or go into a store and ask - Apple is not here

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So Apple has no position on this..........

If this were a $45 piece of schwag I could see the silent treatment, but not for an Apple Watch.

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Auwsome wrote:

So Apple has no position on this..........

If this were a $45 piece of schwag I could see the silent treatment, but not for an Apple Watch.

Apple does not participate on this site.

I seriously doubt boxing will hurt the Watch though. You are far more likely to hurt your own wrist by wearing it while boxing.

Well now I feel like a bit of an arse (should have known that they don't participate). I don't intend to wear it for sparring, just when I am doing 3 and 1's on the heavy bag. It will be covered by the gloves. I was just worried about screwing with the gyro-compass-interwebz wizardry inside that tiny little case.

Suppose it were to break internally (somehow). If you were to bring it to Apple with no sign of exterior damage, how would they claim you broke it?

That's just a hypothetical question. I don't know the answer.

Very true. Also I dug a bit and cannot find anything from Apple that says "...no heavy bag training..." or "...no combat sport training...". That said it could be under Section MMXLVII, Sub-Section 2,325.43B, Article 22r of their Terms and Conditions. I will run it past my contract attorney after I get back from the Cape.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1884035/

😁 There are no hidden terms and conditions.

You can read the User Guide here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/apple-watch-user-guide/id985786488

or download it here: PDF Apple Watch User Guide

Under "Safety, Handling, and Support" the only precaution regarding "impact" addresses how its water resistance might be affected by such damage.

The hardest part about wearing the watch with heavy bag training is that your hand wraps get in the way, that is what i have found out. I just take mine off when I am sparring or doing pad work. lifting weights is different, when it comes to that I just leave it on. Hope this helps!