Even though Apple just announced a bunch of upcoming health and fitness features for the Apple Watch Series 12, existing Apple Watches already have more fitness capabilities than you may realize. We’ve already shown you 10 hacks for all Apple Watch users, but I’m here with a follow-up on the best fitness hacks and tips. With these lesser-known settings, apps, and features, you can get more out of your Watch, your workouts, and your health data.
Give your Apple Watch rings a "rest day"
The Apple Watch’s Fitness app famously includes three rings (Move, Exercise, Stand) that you can close with activity throughout the day. Not only should you change your Move and Exercise goals to numbers that work for you (raising or lowering them as appropriate), you can also schedule in different goals for each day. Originally, your Move, Exercise, and Stand goals were the same every day, but these days you can change your ring-closing goals, including adding rest days. Go to the Fitness app and tap the Activity Rings card, and then tap the “+/-” icon next to each goal. You can create a weekly schedule so that you have lower targets on certain days. You can also change a goal temporarily just for today—for example, reducing your Stand hour goal on a day you’re taking a road trip.
