February 2026 Activity Challenge

[Leon Nash]

My January challenge was about the amount of walking exercises so my burned kilocalories was lower than usual. And this challenge is almost identical to the kilocalories burned last month.

I wish there was some kind of setting for the challenge difficulty, now it seems a bit too often to be "do pretty much the same as last month".

 

[venom600]

I'm sorry, but someone please school me on the term "kilocalories". The prefix "kilo" usually means thousand. They surely can't mean that you are supposed to burn 433 thousand calories...

 

[Leon Nash]

From our (future) friend Gemini:

A standard scientific "calorie" is extremely tiny—it is only enough energy to heat one gram of water. If we used this unit for exercise and food, the numbers would be huge and unmanageable; a single jog would burn 300,000 calories and a sandwich would be 500,000 calories.

To keep the numbers simple (like 300 and 500), we count in batches of 1,000, which is a kilocalorie (kcal). Essentially, whenever we say "calorie" in daily life, we are actually using a shorthand for "kilocalorie."

 

[goldmac2006]

easy one for me. I get to take a break from running a lot.

 

[webbuzz]

Pretty easy.

 

[phessler]

Should be doable:

 

[Apple fanboy]

Pretty easy one for me. Tired of the 14 times challenges though.

 

[jz0309]

Another do-able 14 rimes for me

 

[richard13]

I was just thinking the other day if I would get an Exercise Minutes challenge...

 

[doogm]

I'm sorry, but someone please school me on the term "kilocalories". The prefix "kilo" usually means thousand. They surely can't mean that you are supposed to burn 433 thousand calories...

It's been a standard (at least in the US) that the word Calories with a capital C is a shortener for kilocalories. So when the move ring says 600 Calories, it's the same as 600,000 calories.

Yes, that's pretty dumb.

 

[doogm]

"Earn this award by doubling your move goal 3 times."

I'm not sure I'll get this - my move goals are pretty carefully set to be a challenge for me. If I do my planned workout, I usually meet or slightly exceed it. So doubling is hard, and I have no reason to want to try.

 

[BenAigen]

Only 45 minutes x 14 😂😂

 

[gdjsnyder]

Another 14 times one. Not too bad since I’ve been getting back into running the past two months.

 

[iAssimilated]

Real easy... do 3 running workouts that last for 5 minutes or more.

 

[jonblatho]

I'm sorry, but someone please school me on the term "kilocalories". The prefix "kilo" usually means thousand. They surely can't mean that you are supposed to burn 433 thousand calories...

In American English, kilocalories are usually written as "Calories," with a capital C.

That is, 1 Calorie = 1 kilocalorie = 1000 calories.

It's silly, yes.

 

[klm9210]

 

[Leon Nash]

"Earn this award by doubling your move goal 3 times."

I'm not sure I'll get this - my move goals are pretty carefully set to be a challenge for me. If I do my planned workout, I usually meet or slightly exceed it. So doubling is hard, and I have no reason to want to try.

I have doubled my move goal only handful of times and those were caused by shoveling snow for several hours after a serious snow blizzards.

The funny thing about shoveling snow is that I have to manually start “other” exercise otherwise the watch barely recognizes any major calories burned.

Designed in California 😁

 

[Tim Jobs the 2nd]

 

[richard13]

"Earn this award by doubling your move goal 3 times."

I'm not sure I'll get this - my move goals are pretty carefully set to be a challenge for me. If I do my planned workout, I usually meet or slightly exceed it. So doubling is hard, and I have no reason to want to try.

I think I've doubled by Move Ring a few times. Once because I misread my challenge for that month. That was grueling for sure. But I got it a couple times because I was at Disney World. Easy to do when you're walking around all day and end up with over 20K steps. If I got your challenge I'd probably give it a shot but I understand if others don't.

 

[AirBerlin4EVR]

Easy one for me

 

[millerj123]

"Earn this award by doubling your move goal 3 times."

Mine's to double it 5 times. I don't have it set very high, though.

 

[tcuprof]

"Earn this award by doing 14 workouts that last for 5 minutes or more."

This is so easy it's laughable. My current PT regimen calls for 5 workouts 4 times a week and 3 twice a week. I'll have this done tomorrow.