HT204523: Work out with your Apple Watch
Learn about Work out with your Apple Watch
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Jul 13, 2015 7:48 PM in response to Stephane Gimenezby Meg St._Clair,What do you mean by "how to use the data"? What do you want to do with it?
Lots of apps share data with Health, including Runkeeper, MapMyRun, iSmoothRun, Nike+ Running, Strava. What information they read exactly will vary by app.
Health doesn't store any GPS mapping information.
If you really want extremely detailed information about a run, you're probably best served by also using a dedicated running app.
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Jul 17, 2015 5:45 AM in response to Meg St._Clairby Stephane Gimenez,Hi,
What I mean is that when I go for a ride, I expect to only start one app. So if my watch has an activity app to can record data for that ride, all of that data, speed throughout, heart rate throughout, my gps plotting, all of this data, must be gathered by the activity app, and saved within that particular workout. Right?
Currently, at the end of such activity, all I get, is averages, total time and distance.
What if I want to see on the map where I went?
what if I wanted to see my heart rate for a particular climb, or the speed of a particular section?
Now, you are right, strava, Endomundo and the likes will indeed capture this for me.... But are you then saying that before I start my ride, or my run, I need to start Strava, or ENDOMUNDO, and then go to my watch, and start a new workout too?
Surely not....
Or are you saying that if I am a serious runner, or cyclist, the activity app on the app is not good enough?
Didn't apple market this watch on launch to be good enough for a long distance runner to train with? With the data it provides, it simply isn't.
Surely, the workout captured by the watch/phone, knows all of the data that makes up that workout, and should be able to export to strava, endomundo, or what ever else? Don't you think?
Am surprised that this thread or topic is not overwhelmed by replies and ideas....
unless I am really missing something...
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Jul 17, 2015 2:34 PM in response to Stephane Gimenezby Meg St._Clair,Stephane Gimenez wrote:
Or are you saying that if I am a serious runner, or cyclist, the activity app on the app is not good enough?
Didn't apple market this watch on launch to be good enough for a long distance runner to train with? With the data it provides, it simply isn't
Yup, that's exactly what I'm saying. Though I have great respect for Christy Turlington's charitable work, I don't really know that she's a serious runner. And that was only one thing that Apple advertises about the watch. If I were doing any serious race training right now, I'd be using my Garmin watch.
Take a look at apps like SpectaRun Workouts for exporting data from the Activity app to other apps.
As I noted above, the Activity app does not do mapping.
There would be no particular point in "overwhelming" this thread with ideas. Apple doesn't read here. Submit your feedback to Apple here:
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by Lawrence Finch,Jul 17, 2015 2:40 PM in response to Stephane Gimenez
Lawrence Finch
Jul 17, 2015 2:40 PM
in response to Stephane Gimenez
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Mac OS XFor the most part Apple puts basic, general purpose apps on the iPhone. If you have specialized needs you should use a specialized app. There's a good reason; if Apple put every bell and whistle imaginable on an iPhone, iPad or Watch what incentive would there be for independent developers to create apps? The system works, as there are currently over a million 3rd party apps for the iOS and now the Watch. The other reason is storage; if Apple put complex apps on devices that used up a lot of the device's memory, people who didn't need those features would rightly complain (they do now about the Watch app on their iPhone when they have no intention of buying an watch). There are a number of excellent, specialized apps for exercise. I use Cyclometer, and have for several years. The latest version supports the watch. I've noticed several dozen others in the App store. So do some "window" shopping.