In the modern world every time we sit more and move less, which is causing such significant people as Tim Cook to claim that sitting is the smoking of the XNUMXst century. And Apple's boss is right, as inactivity is wreaking havoc on the health of hundreds of millions of people who, like perhaps you, work in a chair.
From Apple they are doing a great effort because we improve these habits, both with products such as the Apple Watch and with the Activity application on our iPhones.
Motivation
The group of experts from the Cupertino company that is in charge of this application knows perfectly well that one of the keys to exercising is that you have an important motivation behind. In the Activity app, motivation is given in two different ways: on the one hand, closing the daily circles that indicate the level of activity and, on the other, the achievements to be unlocked.
The circles They are very interesting because they allow us to quickly measure the activity we have carried out during the day, and there will be days in which we are given situations of walking more than necessary without us being aware and we close the red circle, while others we may not find out and barely move the progress bars, so we should compensate by exercising some more.
For its part, the achievements allow us to focus on fixed objectives such as doubling the activity of a normal day, or exercising for a certain number of days in a row. Furthermore, they are relatively easy to achieve and from time to time Apple activates special achievements, increasing possible interest on those dates.
Records and sharing
The other most interesting part of the application is the one that allows us to see all the records made to date. The app presents us summaries per month with the possibility of applying filters in the activities. It should also be noted that in this part we will see the training of the apps that synchronize with Health, such as Strava or Runkeeper.
We finally have the Share option, added in the latest iOS updates and that offers us the possibility that our friends can see the records we get, as well as we can see theirs. It is an interesting way to motivate yourself and even to do some pique, always with sportsmanship as the flag and being clear that the primary objective is to improve health and fitness.
The app of course is Delivery to Italy takes one or two business days and it is included as standard in iOS, without additional purchases of any kind.
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