Could this be accurate? I’m a 24 year old female. The effort towards the last half of the run felt uncomfortable, but not unmanageable by any means. I feel like if I had been in Zone 5 that long I would’ve been totally dying. I was only running 6.9-7.1mph.

From what l've heard, Apple Watch requires the users to do minimum 20 minutes outdoor walks (which I am doing) in a flat outdoor ground with little to no elevation. This is the catch - one of the main reasons I got my Apple Watch series 9 because I wanted to focus more on my cardiovascular health and sleep durations but I don't think l've been getting reliable vo2 max readings because it seems to be decreasing with time. It started off with 38, which is low and believable because l'm not a very active person and never really prioritised cardio health but in the span of 7 days, it has fallen to 33 while I do zone 2 and 3 cardio for around 40 mins a day, 3-4 times a week for a month now. I can't expect the vo2max number to increase in this span but it should not be decreasing right now :(

The main thing to consider here is that I do these 40 minutes cardio workouts indoor in a treadmill and 20 mins outdoor walk workouts everyday.

Maybe this is why vo2max is showing a downward trend?

Longest ride in a long time

I’m just walking my steps.

My tummy and chest have fat. I’m a 34-year-old male, and I’m toned everywhere else. I want to get in shape in these areas and would appreciate some exercise recommendations. I burn about 500 calories daily through running, walking, and some weight training, mostly for my arms.

I was gonna go for a bike ride this morning but woke up to a flat so I decided to go for a “run” and ended up doing a walk instead. I know training on a treadmill is different than actually going outdoors but dang this was rough…

Would like to understand more about my heart rate and blood pressure data.

Since there are a lot of chat with your pdf products, I am wondering whether anyone has found / tried a product regarding chatting with my apple health data to get more insights.

Thanks for sharing in advance!

Hi, see the attached image. This has been happening for a while. I’m not sure if it began before or after the recent updates. Anyway, as you can see, for at least the first 10 minutes or so of my runs, my heart rate is not registering at all, and then, sporadically for another several minutes. Has anyone else had this issue? Suggestions?

Ring setting are: 500/60/8 Is this enough for healthy lifestyle?

As I'm getting closer to the start of the new triathlon training block, I've decided to try and see how do the new structured workouts on Apple Watch work for swimming. I always train "by Garmin" (in a sense that Garmin devices - Forerunner 955 watch and Edge 1030+ bike computer - are my primary training tools and guide me through the structured training loaded onto them), but out of curiosity I wanted to see how would Apple Watch perform (as typically I use it only as a backup tracker).

I've created a very basic interval workout: 200m warmup, 5 intervals of 200m effort with 10s rest and a 200m cooldown. Except the fact that you need to create the workout on the watch, the overal experience is very nice.

The experience of using it in the pool - not so much. It correctly counts the distance, time and pace (obviously), however the guidance part is simply not there. For example, Garmin notifies you about the end of a block with a strong vibration and a buzzer (which can be disabled) when you start the last lane (i.e. in my case it would be at 175m), so when I feel the buzz, I know that I can stop after this lane. Apple Watch notifies you after you finish the block. In all my intervals I had to finish the block and push from the wall again only to feel a faint "tap" from Apple Watch that signalled the end of the interval. It's barely noticeable - especially if you're tumble-turning at a high speed.

So, in the end, while the functionality is present, it's not ready for the prime time yet.

My move streak and monthly ‘close all rings’ award have been lost during October. I have not missed a day (came close) all month. My move streak was over 200 days so it’s a bit frustrating. Anyone else seen this during October?

Anyone use Fitness Gaming workout to track while playing fitness games? I tried it with Nintendo Switch Sports and it seems to calculate a decent amount of calorie burn. Playing the tennis game while running around my living room does get the heart going. I’m not sure if I consider it a real workout though.

I got a PB 5k today, but not the award. I ran 7k & my 5k split is much faster than before, so I have to guess the problem is that I paused my workout at the very beginning instead of starting anew. I figured unpausing from 0 seconds and 0.00km wouldn't have been a problem, but online suggested Apple might not give speed records for workouts that have any pause in them at all. Or maybe it's just a quirk where it fails to update the pace.

Regardless, I was proud of the milestone and while I remember it now I might not in the future. Is there anything I can do? I took it easy the last 2k so making a custom workout wouldn't beat my pace, plus I don't know if Apple counts those and I don't want to lose all my other data :(

How do I get my gps maps to show up on my Strava posts? Right now it doesn’t and I have a series 10? What do I do?

I’ve been running Z2 and 4x4 very consistently this year and have raised my vo2Max from 36-46, but I have noticed the line plateauing for many months just under the average/above average/high zones. Then I went from 39-46 in like 3 months😂. Anyone else notice this? Weird coincidence?

I went to bed last night at midnight, got up at 7. I was out for work all day so initially I didn’t consider it an issue that the movement ring wasn’t going up.

Around 9/10am I noticed that my standing was at 10 which was odd as I’d been up at 7.

I’ve tried everything I can think off but clearly after 90 minutes of walking once I got home with the dog and the movement ring has barely changed - I’m not sure what to do?