Is there a stretching workout on apple watch

I'm wondering what everyone is selecting on your Apple Watch as workouts when working out with FB videos. Even the most straightforward ones that have one type of exercise in them, if they have warmup and cooldown included would technically be three different types of workout (e.g. mixed cardio, HIIT, flexibility) - do you split it into those three? Or do you just select the main one and let it run through the warmup and cooldown? That's what I tend to do, unless I have separate videos for those.

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Then there are ones that are a mix of workouts, such as HIIT and strength (I love those!), so that's even harder to categorise. And even for strength there's "traditional strength training" and "functional strength training" and I don't know what's the difference there, either.

I mean, it's not something that's keeping me up at night :-))) I don't know if it makes any difference anyway, and there's probably no "right" answer, but I wonder how everyone else is using the workouts on the Apple Watch.

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Getting an Apple Watch last year altered my life — especially when it came to exercise. But the more I’ve used it for this, the more a specific question has arisen: why the hell doesn’t the Apple Watch workout app have a warmup mode?

For the uninitiated, the in-built Workout app on the Apple Watch has a range of different sports you can select. The idea behind this is twofold. The first is simple: it allows you to easily track how you’ve been exercising.

The second is more technical, as by choosing a specific workout, the Apple Watch can track your movement and calories burned better when it understands the movements you’re doing.

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In my experience, it works well. The Apple Watch Workout app has a huge range of different exercises and, if your exact sport isn’t on there, you can find something reasonably comparable.

But there is one situation where this isn’t true. So, I shall ask again: why the hell doesn’t the Apple Watch Workout app have a warmup mode?

Honestly, it makes no sense. I’m frothing at the injustice.

Look upon some of the exercises you’re able to undertake on the Workout app.

Warming up is one of the most important things you can do while exercising. The lack of its inclusion as a standalone workout is… baffling. I get around this by selecting “Functional Strength Training” instead, but this feels inelegant. Why not put a warmup exercise option?

But it could go even further (and better) than this.

Ideally, when you select an exercise on the Apple Watch Workout app it’d give you the option to start with a warmup, rather than going straight into the main event.

For example, let’s say you’re doing a run. You can select that exercise and, before it starts the countdown, it asks you if you’d like to warmup first. Once this is done, you should tap another button to begin the workout proper.

This would not only be useful, but actually beneficial, a bonafide feature that encourages people to exercise in the safest way possible.

The lack of a warmup option on the Apple Watch Workout app is made even stranger by the fact there’s a cooldown option. Yes, for some bizarre reason, you can track your post-exercise stretches, but you’ll be damned if you’d like to do the same with your warmup.

Genuinely, the lack of this feature is confounding. I feel this is the sort of thing that could be implemented in a short space of time. Plus, it’d make my pernickety ass feel like I’m tracking all my exercise properly — and isn’t that what we all want in the end?

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You can browse and add new workout types to the Workout app. On your Apple Watch, open the Workout app. Scroll down and tap Add Workout. Tap the desired workout.

Does it matter what workout you choose on Apple Watch?

When you do a workout that is not one of the Main workouts, the workout type will be saved, but the calories burned are calculated as if it was a brisk walk.

What exercises count on Apple Watch?

Every full minute of movement that equals or exceeds the intensity of a brisk walk counts toward your daily Exercise and Move goals. With Apple Watch Series 3 or later, your cardio fitness levels are used to determine what is brisk for you. For wheelchair users, this is measured in brisk pushes.