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FEATURE STAY IN SHAPE WITH APPLEmanage to close a bit of your Move ring as
well. Also, the Move ring is the only activity
ring you can adjust, and in normal times I
keep it set to a manageable 800 calories.
Considering how that amount is a little
ambitious for many of us right now, your best
bet for closing it would be to temporarily
lower your daily move goal unless you have
home access to equipment
like a treadmill.
To do this, simply go to
the Activity app on your
Apple Watch, press firmly on
the ring interface, and then
press Change Move Goal
when the option pops up on
the display. Experiment with
what’s manageable.
This is cheap, but if you
change the goal to the
calorie amount you’ve already achieved for
the day, your Move ring will automatically
close. As a reminder, the Move ring closes
faster during a workout.
Some additional tips
Again, these tips may have their origins in
cheats, but please, don’t spend this time
vegging on the couch and closing your
rings by just waving your arms in the air
every hour. That’s just sad.
Instead, use these tips as a complement
to all the free resources that are suddenly
available now that gyms and other fitness
organizations are adjusting to the realities
of the COVID-19 pandemic. Daily Burn, for
instance, is offering 60-day free trials (go.
macworld.com/dbrn) for all of its classes. If
you go to Gold’s Gym’s website (go.
macworld.com/glgm), you can get its Amp
digital personal trainer app for free until
May 31 if you use the code FIT60. You can
also learn yoga exercises
for free from Core Power
Yoga (go.macworld.com/
crpw), and there’s a wealth
of stay-at-home fitness
videos on YouTube.
And again, at the bare
minimum, get down and
partake in some time-
honored equipment-free
exercises like push-ups
and sit-ups. If you’re in a
place where it’s pretty safe to jog or take a
walk according to guidelines set out by
your city or county, do that.
Most of us aren’t able to close our rings
as easily as we were earlier this year, but
with these little adjustments, you can still
use your Apple Watch to feel a little
satisfaction at the end of the day. If you feel
like you’re being a little too easy on
yourself, go ahead and bump up that Move
goal. And if you combine these tips with
good exercise habits, there’s even a good
chance that you’ll come out of this even
better than you started. ■