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Title: How to save a yoga, roller derby, snowboarding, or dance workout on Apple Watch
Post by: HCK on October 08, 2017, 04:05:21 pm
How to save a yoga, roller derby, snowboarding, or dance workout on Apple Watch

Even if Apple hasn't done fitness testing for your sport yet, you can still categorize your workouts.

While you can log quite a few different types of workouts in the Health app, the Apple Watch's Workout app is intentionally more selective. To get a spot in that scrolling menu, sports have had to undergo rigorous testing and calibration at the company's fitness lab, logging data on athletes and casual swimmers alike.



But what about the other sports? How can roller derby players, dancers, or snowboarders track their workouts without needing a custom third-party app? Well, Apple has a solution for these users, too: It's called the Other workout.

In the past, the Other workout treated any non-sanctioned exercise as the same base data type — whether you skied, skated, danced, hit a birdie, or did some yoga, it all got categorized into one bucket.

As of watchOS 3 and 4, the Other workout now lets you save that information to a specific workout type, thanks to "Name Worko...

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