The Ultimate Apple Watch Fitness App

Strava Going On A Journey  Strava is one of the most popular exercise apps for the Apple Watch and for good reasons. Running and cycling are, by far, the exercises with the most analytical returns this app has to offer. Built to maximize the runner's experience, it offers a variety of detailed statistics about you and the environment around you because it uses a lot of GPS data to make detailed analyzations for your exercise. You can use the Strava app for free, but if you want full access to all of the features offered, a premium subscription is required. Many of the features that I will be showing are part of the premium version. And if you want the premium version,  Features of Interest Find a Good Trail, See How Others Did I like change. Many times our exercises get boring because we do it so often in the same places. Sometimes a change of scenery does well to keep things fresh. Switching up your route can be exciting. Strava helps you discover new places and offers new ro...

Apple's Workout App for Apple Watch It's only right to begin the series with the Workout app that every brand new Apple Watch user would be familiar with. The Workout app is Apple's default fitness app on the Apple Watch. The application works in conjunction with the Fitness/Activity app on your iPhone by displaying all of the information collected from your watch during your selected workouts.  It's important to note that the functionality of the Apple Watch fitness app and most other fitness apps on Apple Watch only allow you to record your activity by selecting the kind of exercise activity. Viewing your stats and analysis of activity is all available to view on your iPhone. I originally thought it was all packed into the watch, but it makes sense to view this information on a more adequate screen size.  An Activity in Progress The app gives you a large selection of different activities / sports you can track, but running exercises --especially outdoor running exerci...

If you own an Apple Watch, one of the main reasons you decided to purchase the device is for the information about yourself that the Watch can gather for you. As an individual with a curious mind who likes to be active, I've always wondered about how I can improve my performance. I love to keep my cardiovascular condition in a favorable condition, and to do that I regularly go for a 4+ mile run.  Four miles may sound like a lot, and it is, but everyone can improve the experience to the point where four miles seems like an easy challenge. If you're just as curious about yourself as you are curious about how to improve fitness in a detailed fashion, the Apple Watch has a treasure trove of fitness/running applications on the App Store that give you personal stats that you could use to improve. The benefit of owning an Apple Watch is that it gives numbers to work off of, interactive features to work with, and your own personal tracker of how you are performing on the trail, in the ...