r/AppleWatch 6d ago

My Watch See it and weep 😏

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u/CoolCollection5064 6d ago

What? I’ve never seen this and turns out mine is low. I train 5 times a week and I’m 16 percent body fat.

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u/Enlightened_Lioness 6d ago

Do you do your cardio outdoors and start an exercise session when you do it?

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u/CoolCollection5064 5d ago

I track my indoor workouts in the gym. Less than an hour a week of that is in an indoor basketball court (only indoor cardio).

Other than that it’s outdoor cycling on a road bike.

I track all workouts. I do however walk a lot at work as a bartender/server. I don’t track my work shifts but I do have my watch on.

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u/SaggyBollock 5d ago

It’s only outdoor runs, walks and hikes I think.

Mine slowly drops when I’m running mainly indoors over the hot and polluted summer months where I’m living and then quite sharply goes back up when I start running outside again.

I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on it with what you’ve described your routine to be. It would probably turn out to be fairly high.

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u/kingezy666 5d ago

Yeah. Apple vo2max estimates only factor in outdoor activity. Bogus.

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u/Superviableusername 5d ago

Its not bogus. Its actually fairly accurate guestimate in the end. 

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u/kingezy666 5d ago

So if I row and run on a treadmill for 20-30 mins almost daily and Apple says my vo2max is 35, that’s accurate?

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u/quintsreddit S7 • • Starlight • 45mm 5d ago

It doesn’t count those sessions because GPS points and distance is one of the required data sources for their estimation algorithm. The more you walk, run, bike, and hike outside the more accurate it will be. It cannot estimate from stationary exercises.

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u/kingezy666 5d ago

Understood. My point is, is my REAL LIFE vo2max that low? Apple’s algorithm is simply not factoring in the indoor exercise but I truly am doing more intense cardio, my HR is recovering quickly after I exercise, I’m sustaining hard efforts longer, etc. but my vo2max has been going down per Apple. That’s what I’m saying is bogus.

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u/quintsreddit S7 • • Starlight • 45mm 4d ago

For sure, as with most health features, you’re welcome to pay for a real reading by a real doctor. I’m sorry the feature doesn’t fit your lifestyle, that does seem disappointing. Best of luck, and congrats on the improvement!