Aiming to Try: Getting Fit with Apple Watch

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Exercise. If you're anything like me, you might find it a bit tedious. Hiking through nature, playing with a skipping rope, and chasing your friend's dog around the park is a joyous form of it that I love to partake in. However, if someone says "let's work out!", it activates my boredom response in about 0.5 seconds.

Since starting this blog however, I realised that there are so many hobbies and activities in the world out there that I do not know about. And so there must be so many excercises and ways of working out that I do not know about either. Rather than sit and Google them, I have turned to my Apple watch.

On the Workout app, there is a long list of workouts you can track to ensure that the watch is calcualting the right amount of calories burned as you go about your day. My genius idea is to use this list as an ad hoc bingo card. I am going to make it a goal to try every single activity on there at least once at some point in my life.

Y'all in? Here's the list that Apple have published. It may not look like much. but each category has subcategories. There is a fair amount in there! The real variety though is hidden in the watch itself. For those of you without access to one, I will list them here.

Treat it like a little "Try it Once" bingo!

American Football	Archery	Athletics	Australian Football
Badminton	Barre	Baseball	Basketball
Bowling	Boxing	Climbing	Cooldown
Core Training	Cricket	Cross Country Skiing	Cross Training
Curling	Dance	Disk Sports	Downhill Skiing
Elliptical	Equestrian Sports	Fencing	Fishing
Fitness Gaming	Flexibility	Football	Functional Strength
Golf	Gymnastics	Hand Cycling	Handball
HIIT	Hiking	Hockey	Indoor cycle/run/walk
Kickboxing	Lacrosse	Martial Arts	Mind and Body
Mixed Cardio	Multisport	Open water swim	Outdoor cycle/run/walk
Paddling	Pickleball	Pilates	Play
Pool Swim	Racketball	Rolling	Rowing Machine
Rugby	Sailing	Skating	Skipping Rope
Snow Sports	Snowboarding	Social Dance	Softball
Squash	Stair-Stepper	Stairs	Step Training
Surfing	Table Tennis	Tai Chi	Tennis
Traditional Strength	Volleyball	Water Fitness	Water Polo
Water Sports	Wrestling	Yoga	Other

I've highlighted all the activities I have tried in purple, but there's still so very many to do out there and I did not even realise it. Some will probably take a lot of time and money, but others are accessible even if I just join a university club, or walk down the road to the fitness centre.

I hope this inspires you to try a new activity, whether you have a fitness watch or not.

Now go forth, and try it all once...or maybe twice