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The accuracy of the device should matter but in the long run, it won’t. Or the participation medals of the Millennial generation. Now if you’re completely bummed out by this post, here’s the consolation prize. Again, what is the truth? What is right? Not all is lost What makes less sense to us is the fact that the calorie counts on the Apple Watch’s worn on different hands were closer than the example mentioned above. But none of them carries the Apple Watch’s premium price tag. We’ve had similar issues with every Fitbit device, Samsung Gears and Moto 360’s. The fitness aspects of the Apple Watch is heavily marketed to us but the results are not as conclusive as dual lens camera or faster processors.ĭid we just pay $600 dollars for a device that spits out half truths? Now this isn’t an Apple specific problem.

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Or buying a new MacBook Pro and having the screen be Retina most of the time. What can we compare our disbelief to? It would be similar to paying $1000 dollars for an iPhone and having it take blurry photos occasionally. There’s the difference of ONE whole meal between the two devices. Second of all, if your’e counting calories based on your Apple Watch, well, you’re screwed. Quality of the calories is what you should be concerned with. Having an understanding of calories is important but not all calories are the same. What is the correct value? First of all, if you’re counting calories, stop wasting your time. That’s 200 calories which is a difference of one small meal. Sure, it’s only a 7-8% difference but still, we were expecting it to be very close. One Apple Watch claims that Aaron burned 2431 calories and the other Apple watch said 2629 calories. The total calorie counts for each day were different. The actual workout? Same issues as we described above.īut here’s the kicker.

Like before, the Apple Watches NAILED Aaron’s HR during his cool down periods during the workout. This day involved a two hour morning workout, several hours editing videos, a dinner date and a movie. Every 1-2 hours Aaron would swap the watch positions for consistency and as you can see, the general trends are similar. What happens when you wear two Apple Watches on the same hand? Here’s the graph for that day. Why? How much exercise are you REALLY getting? Two Apple Watches, One Arm This difference should be concerning to even runners and swimmers. Some days, the difference would be quite significant (~20%). This leads into the second truth that the left hand really doesn’t know what the right hand is doing? Same workout, same person, different arm and the results are noticeably different. On days with not much movement, the trends would be closer (<2% different). We’ve got several other examples that shows noticeably differences between devices. They look similar but would you be able to conclusively say they were the same? Here’s a graph of an entire day of HR tracking with two Apple Watch’s being worn. If we didn’t tell you, could you tell this was the same day? We’ve broken down what we think are the three truths that we’ve discovered during this entire process. The device with the least amount of discrepancies was the Microsoft Band 2 which Microsoft has scuttled? Well, we’ve used enough HR tracking devices to know that they all have the same problem. Overpriced Yuppy products that don’t actually work”. Now some of you watching this might be thinking “Well, it’s because its Apple.

But if you’re a runner or swimmer, you’re going to love the Apple Watch’s Fitness Tracking.

In general, Apple Watch Fitness tracking doesn’t work well for a lifter or a cross trainer. The entire process was tedious as parsing through the Apple Health data was tedious and graphing in Numbers is downright awful. Monty was involved in the coaching of Aaron during all his workouts.Īll the data was pulled from Apple Health and analyzed in macOS Numbers. We wore the Apple Watches in as many combinations as possible (one on each arm, different device on different arm, two on one arm).

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To get to this conclusion, we spent a lot of time tracking Aaron’s workouts using an original Apple Watch and a Series 2 Apple Watch. Why? Because the Apple Watch doesn’t work well with those forms of exercise. You won’t see anybody doing an AMRAP in an Apple Watch ad. Which is why you won’t see a guy or gal doing cross training in any of Apple’s ads. However, the moment when your limbs start to move inconsistently, the Apple Watch fitness tracking falls flat on its face. So…wearing an Apple Watch doesn't make you a better athlete….#applewatch #fitness #fail #reviewsĪ video posted by Mobile Reviews Eh! on at 8:15am PSTīut the Apple Watch loves repetitive motions like running and swimming as the placement of the device doesn’t get disturbed.

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