There are a few things I have learned over the past year of perfect Apple Watch Activity, and one of them is how to have a recovery day without breaking your workout and activity streak.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I think the Apple Watch fitness tracking is amazing.<\/p>\n
And sometimes I feel that my Apple Watch is trying to kill me.<\/p>\n
For example… My November 2019 challenge is to get a total of 1,690 exercise minutes, which is an average of 56 minutes every single day. Almost double my normal goal. No thanks.<\/p>\n
Or, consider the “stand trend”. The whole point of these trends is that you are supposed to be always trending upward! But, at what point is enough standing enough? Some of us sleep while lying down…<\/p>\n
Anyway, my point is that the Apple Watch is always pushing and challenging. And even though I joke about it, for the most part I do like that my Watch is pushing me to stay active.<\/p>\n
But, at the end of the day, I am the one in charge of my health and fitness. My Watch is not a personal trainer.<\/p>\n
That’s why I have been happily taking recovery days without breaking my activity streak.<\/p>\n
Here’s how…<\/p>\n
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On the Apple Watch there are several default workout types, but all of them are active. (Well, walking and yoga could be a bit on the chill side.)<\/p>\n
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But there are also about 60 more workout types that are buried within the Other<\/em> workout option.<\/p>\n One of those buried workout types is called Mind and Body<\/strong>. The Mind and Body workout is one that I have been using for the past few months as part of my recovery day \u201cworkout\u201d each week. I have also begun using it in order to track my times of quiet meditation.<\/p>\n As I mentioned, there are about 60 other workouts. But you wouldn\u2019t know it unless you went through a specific series of actions.<\/p>\n In order to \u201cunlock\u201d one of the awesome, Other workouts, just do the following:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
How to Unlock the Apple Watch\u2019s Other Workout options<\/h3>\n
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What are the \u201cOther\u201d Workouts?<\/h4>\n