The Apple Watch, like most of the best fitness trackers on the market, is an excellent tool for logging your workouts. But what happens if you forget to hit the gym start button? If you’re a junkie like me when it comes to keeping all your workouts in one place and my rings closed, you’ll want to know how to manually add a workout to your Apple Watch.
Forgot to restart your Apple Watch while at the gym? Or recorded a running session on your best running watch that you want to sync with your Apple Watch? Do not be afraid. Apple has a backup to make sure your account lasts a sweaty session. Whether you have an Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch SE, or Apple Watch Ultra, the steps below are the same.
How to manually add a workout to your Apple Watch
To manually add a workout to your Apple Watch, you’ll need your iPhone handy, because unfortunately, you can’t add a workout from your watch itself. Here are the steps to take:
- On your iPhone, open File Health Implementation
- Go to browse tab
- Faucet Activity
- Scroll down to File drills section (or search for the exercise)
- Choose from here Add data in the upper left corner of the screen
- From here, you can add your workout, including your type of activity, calories burned, distance traveled, and when you started and finished your workout.
- Once you have filled in all of this information, you can click Add. It should then appear in your workout log.
Will Hand Drills Contribute to Your Apple Loops?
Good news if you’re a junkie when it comes to closing your rings: Hand workouts will count towards your activity and movement rings. Follow the steps above, and wait for a few minutes for the episodes to update.
Unfortunately, hand-held workouts don’t contribute to the stand loop, because this relies on the motion sensor on the watch, and because you won’t get that data from a hand-held workout.
How to delete a manual exercise?
If you entered your manual workout incorrectly, just head to the Fitness app on your iPhone, and delete the manual exercise from your workout summary. Make sure to delete your workout and data if you want to remove it from your circuit progress.
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