How To Set Your Workout Goals On Apple Watch

Adjust the conditioning settings on Apple Sentinel

Update your elevation and weight

Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, go to Wellness > Health Details, so tap Edit.
Tap Superlative or Weight, so adjust.

Your Apple Watch uses the information yous provide almost your acme, weight, gender, historic period, and wheelchair status to summate how many calories yous burn, how far you travel, and other data. The more you run with the Conditioning app , the more your Apple Sentry learns your fitness level—and the more accurately information technology tin estimate the calories you lot burned during aerobic action.

Your iPhone GPS allows your Apple Lookout man to achieve fifty-fifty more than distance accuracy. For case, if yous acquit your iPhone while using the Workout app on a run, your Apple tree Scout uses the iPhone GPS to calibrate your stride. Then later, if you're non carrying your iPhone, or if you're working out where GPS is unavailable (for example, indoors), your Apple tree Sentinel uses the stored information well-nigh your footstep to measure out altitude.

Apple Lookout man may use the congenital-in GPS to calibrate your movement.

Change your workout view

Open up the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
To choose which stats are shown for each conditioning type—for example, if you want to run into your current meridian while you lot're hiking in the mountains—tap the conditioning type, tap Edit, and so add together or delete stats and elevate to reorder.

During your conditioning, turn the Digital Crown to highlight a dissimilar metric—distance or your heart charge per unit, for example.

Change measurement units

If y'all prefer meters to yards or kilojoules to calories, you tin can change the measurement units the Conditioning app uses.

Open the Settings app on your Apple Sentry.
Tap Conditioning, scroll to the bottom, then tap Units of Measure.

Yous tin change units for energy, pool length, cycling workouts, and walking and running workouts.

Pause running and cycling workouts automatically

Open up the Settings app on your Apple Sentinel.
Tap Conditioning, so turn on Auto-Intermission.

Your Apple Watch automatically pauses and resumes your outdoor running and cycling workouts—for example, if y'all finish to cross the street or get a drink of water.

Plough workout reminders on or off

For walking, running, swimming, and other workouts, your Apple Sentry senses when yous're moving and alerts yous to start the Workout app. It even gives y'all credit for the exercise you've already done. It will besides remind y'all to end your conditioning, in instance you lot go distracted when you're cooling down. Follow these steps to plough conditioning reminders on or off.

Open the Settings app on your Apple tree Watch.
Tap Workout, then change the Start Workout Reminder and Stop Workout Reminder settings. (Workout reminders are on by default.)

You tin as well open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Sentry, tap Workout, then change the workout reminder settings.

Avert adventitious taps

If the exercise you're doing or the gear you're wearing causes accidental taps on your Apple Watch, lock the screen and then your conditioning record isn't interrupted.

Lock the screen: Swipe correct, so tap Lock.
Dismiss a notification: Press the Digital Crown.
Unlock the screen: Turn the Digital Crown.

Conserve power during a workout

You lot tin extend bombardment life on Apple tree Watch during walking and running workouts.

Open up the Settings app on your Apple Watch.
Tap Workout, then turn on Ability Saving Mode.

During walking and running workouts, ability saving mode turns off Always On display and cellular on models that support these features. The built-in heart rate sensor is also turned off until you finish your workout.

For more information, see the Apple Support commodity Get the well-nigh accurate measurements using your Apple Sentinel.