Apple has always championed the importance of sport in our lives in many ways. The main one: the health. That is why the Apple Watch has always been a device focused, in one way or another, to improve or monitor the health and activity of users. The existence of custom and global challenges in watchOS increases user activity with the goal of completing some purposes to get a gift that are still virtual badges on the Apple Watch. This time, Apple has already presented its challenge to start 2022 "Start the year on the right foot." If you want to complete it, we explain how to do it.
Start the year well with the challenge 'Start the year on the right foot' of the Apple Watch
Every year when December 31 rolls around, Apple Watch users are notified with the first global challenge of the year on watchOS. It is a mini challenge that Apple gives us to start the year moving, promoting sport and activity among users. If the objectives of the challenge are achieved, a badge is given to the user that they can use in apps such as Messages and see the trophy in the Activity app on both iOS and watchOS.
This time Apple has called the challenge «Start the year on the right foot» and the goal to achieve is nothing more than complete all three rings on seven consecutive days in January 2022:
Challenge «Start the year on the right foot». Start 2022 as it deserves. Complete all three rings seven days in a row in January and you will get this prize.
Completing the movement, exercise and standing rings
This time We only have to complete the three rings: movement, exercise and standing consecutively for 7 days. Remember that the way to complete the rings is as follows:
- Movement: says his own name. This ring quantifies the number of calories we burn throughout the day, regardless of whether we exercise or not. The more we move, the more we will complete this ring. The objective to complete the ring is set in a personalized way, although the Apple Watch suggests us which objective we should put so as not to get stuck in comfort.
- Exercise: this ring can also be customized to complete it. However, it is advisable to do at least 30 minutes of active exercise a day. It is measured in minutes of moderate-high activity and we can track our activities thanks to the Train app.
- Standing: Finally, the objective of this ring is to avoid a daily sedentary lifestyle. Avoid sitting for long hours. The Apple Watch will send us notifications every hour to get up if we have not done so already. If we remain standing doing some activity for at least one minute in every hour, it will increase one hour to this ring. To complete it, we must arrive at least 12 hours, which is recommended by Apple, unless we have personalized the ring and have fewer hours.
Therefore, for this first challenge of 2022 enough with complete all three rings for a week in a row. Personally, I think the challenge is in the weekend. For many, the week is always the busiest area and on the weekend, we reduce the activity and sometimes the Standing or even Movement ring is close to completion. That is why Apple puts the entire month of January so that we have several opportunities to complete the challenge without getting frustrated by the weekend or other misfortunes that may appear and prevent us from completing the challenge.
You have another January challenge prepared for you
Yes. Apple not only prepares global challenges for all users, but monthly watchOS launches a personalized challenge for each of the users based on its activity, movement and other parameters collected in recent weeks. Typically, these individual challenges are somewhat more difficult to complete than global challenges that target a vastly larger audience.
In this first month of January we have a challenge consisting of running or walking at least a certain distance. In my case:
This month, walk or run 266,4 km to win this award.
At the end of the explanation It informs you of how many kilometers you drive and what average daily mileage you would have to go to complete the challenge. As you can see, it is a much more complicated challenge than the global challenge in January because it is still a personal challenge that the Apple Watch offers you to try to improve and strengthen your health.
Remember that to see the active challenges you have to go to the Activity app on iOS or on the Apple Watch. In the case of the Apple Watch, we will slide from right to left to access the section Awards and we will slide down until we reach Limited edition to consult the information of the global challenge of 2022. If we want to know the objective of our personalized challenge of January 2022 we will have to go to the top where it will appear in a big way January challenge. If we click on it, we will access the badge that we would obtain if we completed the challenge and a brief description of the objective in kilometers that we have to achieve to finish the challenge.
Good luck with this 2022, which we hope will come full of hope, health, activity and good news for all the followers of Actualidad iPhone!