Mit den Reparaturen in watchOS 11 ist es leichter als je zu erreichen, Ihre Gesundheitsziele auf Ihrem Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch has always been a powerful device for monitoring your health and fitness. But two recent changes in watchOS 11 have never made it easier to achieve your goals. Here are the details.

Setting daily health goals for your Apple Watch, including rest

When the Apple Watch was first introduced, its three activity rings were very rigidly defined.

To close all your bands, you had to do 30 minutes of exercise and be active for 12 hours a day. These goals could not be changed; only the movement band was adjustable.

Last year, watchOS added support for changing exercise goals and standing goals. But it was only in recent months, with watchOS 11, that two additional important changes were made to the activity rings.

You can now schedule vacation and sick days. And your activity rings can have different goals for different days of the week.

watchOS 11 supports pausing your activity rings for one or more days, so missing a closure on these days does not break your streak.

You can adjust your daily goals so that, for example, you need to move more on weekdays and be less active on weekends.

Here are two reasons why these changes to the Apple Watch can help you achieve your health goals:

1. Rings can be an important motivation to continue healthy habits.
2. Goals must seem realistic or we will quickly give up.

I have observed these two principles in my own Apple Watch experience. Let me explain.

Who cares about the health repairs of the Apple Watches

I have had the longest streak of closing my Move ring with 285 days.

It was a busy season, but it suddenly fell apart when I got COVID and could barely get out of bed.

The loss of my continuous series and the time I knew I would take to set a new record were very demotivating for me. I had quickly gotten used to closing my bands every day.

The ability to pause my goals would have been immensely helpful and brought me back on track much earlier.

I also often had trouble maintaining the consistency of my bands because the Apple Watch treated each day equally in the past. It never felt right to me that I should still achieve my standard goal if I had a big movement day.

Now I can prepare for a big workout on Friday, for example, before relaxing over the weekend. And my Apple Watch will not shame me for it.

Have these changes to the Apple Watch helped you achieve your health goals? Share your opinion in the comments section.

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