How to record workout on apple watch

Curious where to find all the workouts you’ve tracked with Apple Watch? Read on for how to see your Apple Watch workout history on both your wearable and iPhone as well as your move, exercise, and stand trends over time.

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Apple Watch: How to see your workout history
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Can you manually record a workout on Apple Watch?
Can you record a workout on Apple Watch after?
Why hasn't my Apple Watch recorded my workout?
How does Apple Watch track Exercise?

Tracking workouts with Apple Watch records a lot of useful activity and health data. You can only see the details for the current day’s workout(s) on Apple Watch, but on the Activity app on iPhone, you can take a look at your full workout history, workout trends, and more.

Apple Watch: How to see your workout history

On Apple Watch

Open the Activity app on your Apple Watch to see your daily workout history
Swipe or scroll to the very bottom
Tap your saved workout(s) to see all the data

Here’s how this looks on Apple Watch:

Now you’ll see all most of the recorded data (iPhone offers more, covered below), swipe or scroll down to see more.

On iPhone

Open the Activity app on your iPhone to see your full workout history
By default, you’ll see the Today view
Tap the month in the top left corner to see workouts from past weeks, months, and years.
Tap on a day and swipe to the bottom to see your workouts
Select a workout to see your time, calories burned, average heart rate, heart rate recovery, weather, and a map
Alternately, you can tap the Workouts tab at the bottom of the Activity app to see a list of just your workouts
Don’t forget to check out the Trends tab to see how your different metrics are changing over time

Note when looking at the heart rate average from recorded workouts on iPhone, swipe from right to left to see your heart rate recovery data.

Here’s how these steps look on iPhone:

Swipe down to the bottom of any day to see your workouts, or use the Workouts tab in the Activity app.

Here’s how the Workouts and Trends tabs look:

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Can you manually record a workout on Apple Watch?

Workouts can be added manually to the Health app on your iPhone, which aggregates all health and activity data from your Apple Watch, iPhone and any other sources: To add a workout, go to: Health Data (tab) > Activity > tap on Workouts > tap on the "+" sign (upper-right) > enter your workout data.

Can you record a workout on Apple Watch after?

Yes, you can using the Health app on your iPhone. Open it, tap Browse at the bottom of the screen, tap Activity, tap Workout and then tap Add Data in the top right of the screen. To manually add a workout (and its data):

Why hasn't my Apple Watch recorded my workout?

On your iPhone, go to: Settings > Privacy > Motion & Fitness - check that both Fitness Tracking and Health are enabled. On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > Privacy > Motion & Fitness - turn on Fitness Tracking and Heart Rate.

How does Apple Watch track Exercise?

The Activity app relies on arm motion and an accelerometer to track movement, but the Workout app can use the accelerometer, the heart rate sensor, and GPS.