You Can See Way Better Fitness Stats on Your Apple Watch

Try these useful training settings to reduce the time spent playing games with smart watches. You Can See Way Better Fitness Stats on Your Apple Watch.

If you don’t use Apple Watch to stay healthy, you may not be able to take full advantage of Apple Watch. When exploring this topic, you should also consider adjusting the statistics displayed by your watch.

Because it is, you can change the statistics displayed by Apple Watch when you use the default exercise app to record your exercise. We will show you how to do it and share some other useful tips.

Focus on your workout goal with single-metric view

I have been doing a lot of calorie-centric exercises recently. For example, I tried to burn 150 calories on a treadmill, 200 calories on an elliptical machine, and 150 calories on a bicycle. Too much information on the Apple Watch screen can make it harder for you to focus on the only important thing: your active calories.

This is why switching to single view is great. You can get the information you need more easily and quickly, which is a godsend in high-intensity exercise. To do this, open Watch app on your iPhone and select Workout > Workout View > Single Metric.

Customize the stats you see during workouts

Your Apple Watch screen is not big enough to show you various data during your exercise, so you will end up seeing up to five data points, depending on the exercise you’re tracking.

When I discovered that there were 12 different data points available when tracking outdoor games, I discovered that the five displayed by default on the clock were not my favorites. For example, you definitely want to see your current speed and active calories during exercise and swing speed.

You can go to each exercise in the Watch app and select the data you want to view when you track it on your Apple Watch. Head over to Workout > Workout View and scroll down to the Workouts section. Now select any workout and hit the Edit button in the top-right corner and tap the red minus icon to the left of any of the metrics at the top.

Once that’s done, you can add new metrics from the Do Not Include section, by hitting the green plus icon next to the data point of your choice.

Automatically pause your running workouts

Have you discovered that waiting before a stop sign can cause a sharp drop in your average pace for your running training? You can avoid this by manually pausing the exercise when it stops and resuming it when you are moving, or you can let your Apple Watch do it for you.

On the Watch app on your iPhone, go to Workout and enable Running Auto Pause.

Set a default playlist for your workouts

Every time you go to the gym, you can stop messing with your Apple Watch (or iPhone) to find a suitable playlist. Just set a default playlist for your workout, and Apple Watch will automatically play it every time you start a workout.

You can enable this feature by opening the Watch app on your iPhone and going to “Workout“> “Workout Playlist”. You can select any Apple Music playlist on this page. After selecting a playlist, you can choose to play from the beginning or shuffle to determine the order in which the songs are played.

Boost your battery life when tracking workouts

I often forget to charge my Apple Watch at night, and waste time charging it in the morning. Ideally, I should have started exercising. If you’re in a similar situation, you can enable Apple Watch’s power saving mode to earn more miles during running and walking exercises.

Enabling power saving mode will disable the heart rate sensor on the Apple Watch, which means that the data on active calories and total calories burned will be less accurate. My regular 15-minute walking exercise usually shows 50 calories of active calories and 70 calories of total burn. When the energy saving mode is enabled, it shows the active calories of 30 calories and the total burned amount of 50 calories. Since GPS is enabled, all other data points (pace, altitude, route map, etc.) are accurate.

You can enable this feature through the Watch app on your iPhone. Go to Workout and enable Power Saving Mode.