How (and why) to connect your Apple Watch to your peloton

I am someone who is obsessed with the monitoring of my health and fitness data. I use an intelligent scale, a calorie and nutrient-free app, intelligent training equipment and my beloved Apple Watch to create a picture of my general physical well-being that is as complete as possible. The only time that I take my apple guard is when I join to go nicely, and even then it hurts me deeply. Imagine the heart rate and calorie burning data that I miss while I roll around in my costume dress. It's sick.

All of these apps and devices work in the concert to keep an eye on every heartbeat and my steps, but there is a remarkable exception. On the other hand, I am usually to connect my Apple Watch to apps that have followed my workouts, as this has caused a headache in the past by importing data twice by collecting data into my food tracking app and the daily summary of the Apple Health, the purpose of monitoring is defeated as a whole by blowing out my burned calories and the overall mrotus. Today, reluctantly, I linked my Apple Watch to my Peloton bike and expects it to cause the same problems – but it just impressed me. Now I believe in connecting these two devices. I will tell you why and how it works.

How to link your Apple Watch and Peloton device

Select your off in your Peloton app profile (You can find the Hamburg menu on the top right of your profile screen to the right of the menu below on the start screen. If you select this, you will become one page with the name More And right there under Add-onsYou will find Apple Watch.

Tap on that, grant the permissions in Apple Health, if you are asked, click on Set upAnd you will see three options: Connect a connection to the health appPresent Share your locationAnd Follow your movement. For our purposes, by bike and other training equipment at home, simply switch the first. If you want your outdoor runs to be persecuted privately, change second and if you want your pace for internal runs and walks, also press the third.

From there I opened the watch app on my phone to check the Peloton app that was included in the apps installed on the device. I leafed down in the watch -app selected Peloton From the list under Installed on Apple Watchand switched around Show app on Apple Watch.

Why I enjoy the connection between Apple Watch and Peloton

Then I hopped on my stationary bike and started training. I opened the workout app on my clock and selected “inner cycle” and then opened the Peloton app on the clock. It showed me an empty screen with just a few words in which I should start training on my bike, so I did it. Suddenly the watch screen changed and showed my heart rate. Interestingly, on my Peloton touchscreen, a small heart rate tracker appeared on the upper left left together with a potency strip in which I show based on my heart rate. (My “power zones” from Peloton are adapted to my fitness level because I carried out the FTP test via the bike, which you should do.)

There are already a lot of information available on the screen such as cadence, resistance and output, but I did not find this distracted. It was actually pretty helpful to get a feeling in which “zone” I was. I only selected a 10-minute training session, so I didn't expect to be wiped out, but it was nice to judge how much I pressed myself so that I could work to get the best out of these 10 minutes. When the class was over, I opened it Labreak App on the bike. Labreak Is a virtual game from Peloton that I absolutely love and play every day. So I was interested in seeing whether the heart rate knife appears on the screen even during a level. It did!

After my five -minute coal Labreak Level ended that I opened the training apps again on the clock to mark that I was finished as I always did. To my surprise, the Peloton app actually overwritten it; The workout app had stopped tracking my indoor cyclus sitting as soon as the Peloton app was taken over. That made me nervous because I was afraid that the training was not reflected in my daily summary or activity rings of my Apple Health, but when I opened it on my phone, they were there: two “indoor -cycle” training under sessions. Where they would normally have the green Apple workout logo next to them, they had the Peloton logo. They were persecuted and categorized like an indoor cyclus session, which I would normally monitor with my watch. They counted on the move and exercise of parts of my activity rings and all.

I opened my nutrition tracking app to ensure that the calories burned were not submitted twice. You didn't! The Peloton app is successful when other apps have failed: it does not make the tracking of your movement through various apps and devices a confused chaos.

Finally I opened the Peloton app to look at the summary of my workouts. They usually contain estimates of their burned calories and expenses as well as the muscles they worked and how long they were, but now they contained more detailed information about how long I spent in every heart rate zone, and provided further information on my overall performance.

What is the advantage of linking these devices?

As I said, the Peloton app followed the same things that my Apple Watch would follow with the training function: my heart rate, my burned calories and the duration of my training. So you may be wondering what connects the meaning of linking the bicycle (or the peloton run or the row) with the watch?

There are some advantages that are obvious here. First, it was easy to see how my heart rate and the zone of the strength reflected on the Peloton screen. I didn't have to look into my wrist to see my heart rate as I usually do. I could concentrate on the screen, which is important for security and measure myself in real time to make sure I stayed in the zone in which I wanted to be in.

Second, you can see the Apple Watch and the Peloton device with the linking of somewhat “strive score”. This is a personal metric that helps you to understand and visualize how hard you have worked during a class or trip. It is based on a combination of her heart rate and how long you spent Peloton in each of the seven “power zones”. (The lower zones correspond to a lower heart rate and higher zones with a higher.)

Credit: Lindsey Ellefson

Be warned: you have to switch the struts separately, which I did not know at first, so my 10-minute drive has no one, but mine, but mine Labreak Level does. This is simple: from the same More Menu in your profile, click on Settings And scroll down all. Turn on Trade and display Strive score And then choose whether participants in the class can see it or not. I was upset that the only strut for the day was massively 2.2 on my five -minute cobble time, but that only inspires me tomorrow after a higher striving.

Overall, there is no disadvantage if you connect your Apple Watch and Peloton device, which is not always the case with other fitness apps. In fact, you can get even more comprehensive training data by doing this and I think it's great.