Apple Watch - what's a good fitness app for the gym?

[steven2014]

Apple Watch - At the gym

Hi guys,

I bought myself an Apple Watch Sport and I am just wondering how the activity / fitness app would work at the gym.
For example if I was doing a cycle on a stationary bike ? Or cross trainer. Does it still track distance / activity etc ?

Thanks
Steve

 

[Just_Me_D]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

Not sure because I don't use the stationary bike for fitness, but when I run in a treadmill, it can track the distance, but it's a tad inaccurate on occasions.

 

[neatfreakgeek]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

You tell it the type of exercise you're doing via the Workout app, then it uses a specific algorithm to track your distance, time, heart rate and calories burned.

 

[tsparks1]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

If, like me you're a walker (I do 5 miles 7 days/wk at my gym on indoor track) you just do an outdoor walk for at least 20 minutes accompanied by your phone and it will use the phones GPS to calibrate your stride. I've found it to be quite accurate.

 

[beeray]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

I use my watch for spin. Not very accurate for distance at all. My bike said I did 15 miles, watch said 2 miles. A heart rate strap is muc more accurate than the watch

 

[tsparks1]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

I wouldn't expect it to be very accurate for spinning, really now way to measure anything unless perhaps strapped to your ankle lol. As to the heart, yeah, I'd expect a strap would be more accurate.

 

[Highrisedrifter]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

If, like me you're a walker (I do 5 miles 7 days/wk at my gym on indoor track) you just do an outdoor walk for at least 20 minutes accompanied by your phone and it will use the phones GPS to calibrate your stride. I've found it to be quite accurate.

Yes, i've found this to be the case too.

 

[NinerJet9]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

If, like me you're a walker (I do 5 miles 7 days/wk at my gym on indoor track) you just do an outdoor walk for at least 20 minutes accompanied by your phone and it will use the phones GPS to calibrate your stride. I've found it to be quite accurate.

Will the aw calibrate itself w the phone automatically or do I need to tell it to do this? When I run I without my phone using my aw, I find it be fairly accurate considering it does not use GPS.

 

[ab21au]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

I did several indoor walks and was surprised how accurate it was. About 30m diff in 5km. Then I did some outdoor walks which use the phone gps so we're accurate. But after this, the next couple of indoor walks were inaccurate. Since then, the more indoor walks I do, the closer the distance match. So it must be gradually recalibrating the distance. Overall I am extremely happy with the accuracy but am confused why the walks outdoor didn't help the indoor calibration.

 

[tsparks1]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

Will the aw calibrate itself w the phone automatically or do I need to tell it to do this? When I run I without my phone using my aw, I find it be fairly accurate considering it does not use GPS.

It's automatic, as long as you save the outdoor walk rather than delete it.

 

[tsparks1]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

Will the aw calibrate itself w the phone automatically or do I need to tell it to do this? When I run I without my phone using my aw, I find it be fairly accurate considering it does not use GPS.

oops, double post

 

[NinerJet9]

Re: Apple Watch - At the gym

It's automatic, as long as you save the outdoor walk rather than delete it.

Okay cool. I've been already doing it that, so that's pro yet it already seems to be reasonably accurate.