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How to Run Structured Workouts on Your Apple Watch
Intervals, pace targets and pool sets, right on your wrist. Here is how structured workouts work on Apple Watch.
By the inbeat team
Apple WatchStructured workouts turn “go for a run” into a plan: a warm-up, a set of efforts with rest in between, and a cool-down. Your Apple Watch can guide you through all of it.
What a structured workout looks like
A typical interval session has three parts: a warm-up, a block of repeats such as six times 800 metres with two minutes of easy jogging between them, and a cool-down.
Each part can have a goal, like a time or a distance, and a target, like a pace or heart-rate range.
Where they live on your watch
The Workout app supports custom workouts with work and recovery intervals. Apps like inbeat can also send planned sessions straight to it, where they wait at the top under Scheduled.
Alerts keep you on target
During each step your watch can tap your wrist when you drift out of your target pace or heart rate. It is like having a coach along who only speaks up when it matters.
Indoors and outdoors
Outdoor runs and rides use GPS for pace and distance. On a treadmill or an indoor bike, pick the indoor version of the workout so your watch doesn’t go looking for GPS.
In the pool
A structured swim usually looks like sets, for example ten times 100 metres with a short rest at the wall. On watches whose Workout app supports custom pool swims, you can follow these from your wrist too.
After the workout
The finished workout lands in Apple Health with its heart rate and splits. inbeat matches it to what was planned, so you and your coach can see planned against done, every split and the time spent in each zone.
Send workouts to your watch with inbeatA plan on your wrist takes the guesswork out of a hard session. Warm up, hit your targets, cool down, and let the data tell you how it went.
