Using your Apple watch with Exakt Health and getting the most out of it
Benefits of training with an Apple Watch
By connecting your Apple Watch with the Exakt App, you can access your Exakt running plan righ within the native Apple Watch Workout App.
Training with the Apple Watch Workout App, you can leave your phone at home and still be guided through the structured Exakt running session via built-in audio and vibration cues from your watch.
At the same time you'll be tracking metrics like heart rate, distance, pace, and calories burned more accurately than before and all accessible at a glance on your wrist while out on the run.
Those metrics will be automatically saved in your Apple Health information.
How to pair your Apple Watch
To connect your Apple Watch with your Exakt running plan, follow these easy steps:
- Open the Exakt App
- Go to the App settings
- Open the "Smartwatch" settings
- Click on "Workout App" to connect your Apple Watch
- Confirm the connection by clicking on "Allow" in the dialogue that will be triggered
You're all set. Now your scheduled running workouts will be automatically sent from your Exakt App to the Apple Watch Workout App.
Start an Exakt running workout on the Apple Watch Workout App
To start your running workout from the Apple Watch, follow these easy steps:
1. On your Apple Watch, open the Workout App.
2. You'll see a new section at the top called "Exakt".
3. If you have a running workout scheduled for today, you can start it right there.
4. If you want to start a workout from the next 7 days, click on "Exakt" and then on "Show more" to see all future workouts.
To preview a workout before starting it, click on the 3 dots on the top right of each workout.
Follow an Exakt running workout on the Apple Watch Workout App
Once you've started a workout, you can navigate through the workout with the usual gestures that you might know from other Apple Workouts:
You'll be automatically guided through the workout with audio cues and vibration when you reach the time or distance of your current step.
On the main screen you'll find all the essential metrics such as time, pace of the current interval, time or distance to finish the current step as well as heart rate. To see more metrics, you can scroll down.
Swipe to the left to find the controls to stop, continue or exit a workout. You can also skip to the next step of the structured running workout here.
By swiping right, you can control your media player if you're currently playing music.
Complete workouts in the Exakt App
Workouts completed on your Watch are automatically stored in your Apple Health Data.
But the workouts won't sync automatically back to the Exakt App yet. This feature is coming very soon. For now you can mark those as completed manually by opening the Exakt App, clicking on the respective workout and then on "Mark as completed".
