Is Apple trying to kill you with your November Challenge?

[Jason Hensley]

I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m gonna come back to this thread in 30 days and I wat to see you achieve that award!!

While my challenge is definitely NOT as hard as some of you're ridiculous ones on this thread lol, I did get 145 workout minutes on my first day (I need to average 131 per day. It's a start...

 

[Ntombi]

Thanks for this thread; I’m still new to the watch and don’t tend to pay much attention to the rings.

 

[ab06deg]

I have to close all my rings everyday. Well....if Apple doesn’t bricks my s4 again I’ll do it. And if my transition from my old s1 to the new s4 goes as it’s supposed to...

 

[Planky]

I found my October challenge easy...

 

[HengenJL]

Double my Move goal 23 times in November. It is potentially doable!

 

[jtrue28]

Exercise 2,900 minutes. Not as bad as the OP, but that's still 96.67 minutes a day. FML.

 

[Cowboy1629]

I’m going to have trouble with mine this month...

“Earn this award by reaching your daily Move goal 12 times. You’ve reached it 2 times so far this month.”

 

[dbrewood]

Double my Move goal 30 times in November. Sheesh!

 

[Nell]

My November challenge showed up as 1,220 exercise minutes which is okay but is actually a challenge at the moment as I’m driving to work.

Today though I have another challenge which is to close all three rings 3 times. I should hit that one tomorrow.

No idea whether both will stay.


Oh! It’s now all three rings 20 times. A bit more challenging but it’s rare for me not to so it’s not exactly unmanageable.

 

[STevil 39]

I figured watchOS 5 would have some new challenges. I wasn't expecting this though.

http://flickr.com/suomynona/45666118211

LOL that's insane. Seriously though it's a flaw with their system. They need some sort of cap at a certain point where exercising more just doesn't make sense, or would even be unhealthy (400+ minutes of exercise is unreasonable but not deadly; but having to triple your move goal every day of the month would definitely be over-training).

 

[Jason Hensley]

LOL that's insane. Seriously though it's a flaw with their system. They need some sort of cap at a certain point where exercising more just doesn't make sense, or would even be unhealthy (400+ minutes of exercise is unreasonable but not deadly; but having to triple your move goal every day of the month would definitely be over-training).

I agree here, and the cap needs to apply to not only the Monthly Challenge, but the week-to-week Move goal increases as well. I know usually it won't go over 10%, but it never stops either. If my goal is 800 calories per day this week, and I hit it every day, then next week it's 880. Fine, but if I meet that goal, then it's 968 the next week, so on and so forth. Eventually it should cap out before us OCD people kill ourselves lol.

 

[sigomez]

Mine is to burn 31k calories for the month...i don’t think ill be reaching my goal this month, lol

 

[Ntombi]

Mine is to burn 31k calories for the month...i don’t think ill be reaching my goal this month, lol

Mine is to burn 14,000 calories!

 

[Nell]

My original challenge has now disappeared and I’m left with the closing all 3 rings 20 times one. Given that that started at 3 times and then changed to 20 I won’t be missing a day in case it then changes to 30!

 

[PPCmike]

"Mine says "Earn this award by going at least 206.6 mi this month!
You've gone 16.1 mi so far."

Should be doable.. I do a lot of walking delivering at UPS however I did kind of laugh when it popped up.

 

[Jason Hensley]

"Mine says "Earn this award by going at least 206.6 mi this month!
You've gone 16.1 mi so far."

Should be doable.. I do a lot of walking delivering at UPS however I did kind of laugh when it popped up.

My last month goal was the same, for 281 miles.

 

[jaymc]

I just gotta double my move goal 3 times this month ... wonder what algorithm they use to set the goals for different people.

 

[PPCmike]

My last month goal was the same, for 281 miles.

I can't do my move goals for the weekends.. those are my only two days off LOL the odd thing is my Cal goal is always 720 so I lowered it to 710 just to see if it would go back up again.. normally I end up doing like 825 or so per day.

 

[dbrewood]

I've got to double my moves each day for 30 days! Shriek!

 

[molala]

OP made me laugh! That can't be right.

My challenge is to double my move goal 4 times.

 

[Jason Hensley]

OP made me laugh! That can't be right.

My challenge is to double my move goal 4 times.

The funny thing is it actually is right. Apple uses an algorithm to determined what the goals are for peoples month. Those of us who are very active get harder goals, and those who are less active get more reachable goals. The OP must be an extremely active person to have a goal set that high

 

[freemyheart]

"Mine says "Earn this award by going at least 206.6 mi this month!
You've gone 16.1 mi so far."

Should be doable.. I do a lot of walking delivering at UPS however I did kind of laugh when it popped up.

Haha. I work for brown too. Peak will get me through this unreasonable goal... I’m more concerned with what next month might be...
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I've got to double my moves each day for 30 days! Shriek!

That was my August goal. Achieved, but made it rough by not having recovery days.
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The OP must be an extremely active person to have a goal set that high

I am. I’m also hoping for a little bit of a break next month...
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I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m gonna come back to this thread in 30 days and I wat to see you achieve that award!!

Quick update — the 3rd day of the month is done and I’m at 1,752.

 

[molala]

The funny thing is it actually is right. Apple uses an algorithm to determined what the goals are for peoples month. Those of us who are very active get harder goals, and those who are less active get more reachable goals. The OP must be an extremely active person to have a goal set that high

I'm not saying the calculation isn't right. But the common sense is off to ask someone to reach an average of 7 1/2 hours of exercise/day for a whole month. As previous posters have said, they have to use a cap at some point. There is such a thing as overtraining.

But good luck to the OP!

 

[Jason Hensley]

I'm not saying the calculation isn't right. But the common sense is off to ask someone to reach an average of 7 1/2 hours of exercise/day for a whole month. As previous posters have said, they have to use a cap at some point. There is such a thing as overtraining.

But good luck to the OP!

I was that poster saying they need a cap lol.

 

[Seanyboy]

I guess that’s Apple going easy on me after bricking my S4 and making me go back to the S0