 So we see them across the office place all the time. You're debating if you should get one or you have one yourself. The Apple Watch. Now, we all know that the Apple Watch is a very. I mean, it's nice, right? It's nice and everybody debates if they should have one or if they shouldn't. And this video, I really wanted to focus on the fitness aspect of it. A lot of people ask, well, is the Apple Watch a really good like fitness health tracker compared to Fitbit or to Garmin? And to be honest, I've kind of a history with it. I actually had the first Apple Watch when it first came out. I loved it. I was like, hey, this is going to be my first intern purchase. And I bought it and I was like, man, I got it. Of course, when they first came out, there's no functionality. So like four months later, I traded it in, got like a Garmin vivo Fit. Broke that and got a Fitbit. So I've definitely had my journey around the different fitness track or so. In this video, I kind of want to go over what I like, what I don't like about it and kind of like how I use it for fitness now. So let's go ahead and get to it. So one of the main things I love about the Apple Watch and this applies to anybody, you have to even be a fit nerd to be this guy. Like, you know, like a fitness junkie. Really, I love the activity rings. There's three rings, a red, a green and a blue. And really, it helps you really just track your activity over time. And it really convinces you to be a little bit more active. So the first ring is actually got to be the move ring. That's the red ring around it. And how that move ring works is it actually calculates the amount of calories burned and this will be basically you can set the amount of calories that you want to burn per day. It will also automatically see how much you burn and adjust from there. So that's actually a pretty cool feature. The second is the exercise ring. Now, this doesn't mean necessarily crazy amount of exercise. It's just anything that will get your heart rate up. If your heart rates up, the exercise ring will start to fill. Ideally, they want you to have at least 30 minutes of exercise a day. And then the last one is the standing time. This is the blue ring on the inside. This basically tells you to stand up throughout the day sitting at a desk all day, like I sit along like a trading desk and I can get lost there, right? We've all had those times where we're just sitting at the desk going. Click, click, click, click, click, click two or three hours past. We haven't even gotten up yet or stiff. So what this does is every 50 minutes, it tells you, know what, you got to get up. It will remind you like, hey, stand up, move for at least a minute. And it's super helpful. And it does this because I want you to stand at least 12 times throughout the day. And like I said, it tracks it. So you have to actually keep these rings going day by day by day over the whole month and you get to see your streak and it'll give you like little awards and buzz you and all that cool stuff. So I like it because it's kind of like accountability. We all say, well, if I just had somebody to motivate me, well, the Apple Watch can kind of be that motivator for you. Now, the second thing that I really love about the Apple Watch is the actual exercise app itself. I only use maybe one or two of the exercise features in there because I don't like the weight lift and sometimes I'll run. But for people who like to do other types of activities such as high intensity interval training, rowing, cycling, they're swimming. There's so much that you can track on this app. And you can actually say how much you want to, whether it's the distance ran, you know, the mild swam, you could do anything from laps. I mean, it's very, very good. And what it does is it actually takes your heart rate, put that into effect amount of calories that you're burning. And I don't know, it's pretty cool. I like it. I only use it for weight training, but I think it's a very neat feature to have for people who like to do different range of fitness activities. Now, the thing that I cannot stand about the Apple Watch that they still haven't fixed yet, the sleep monitoring. Let me caveat by saying there is you can't use sleep monitoring and you can track your sleep. However, you just have to kind of do a hack, like kind of hack the system. I downloaded an app called Auto Sleep. It was like three bucks on the Apple Store. And what it does is it tracks all my different levels of sleep. Rem, my deep, my light sleep when I'm up, how consistent I've been over time. It's super huge because of the fact that, like, I like to see, like, how my energy is based off of I'm sleeping. If I'm productive one day, I'll look at my sleep and be like, OK, cool. And if I'm not, I'll look at my sleep and see if there's a correlation. So it's a really cool technique to do. And that's why I think sleep tracking is very important. But again, you have to kind of use a hack. The Apple Watch really only lasts for about, I think now the batteries are on two days for me. What I do is at the end of the night, when I come home from work, I'll actually take my Apple Watch, plop it on the charger, go for maybe two or three hours right before I go to bed. I put it on, start the app, and then I'll go to sleep. And then the next morning I'll wake up and have the tracking there. And my battery would have only lost maybe like three to five percent. So that's kind of like a little bit of a hack. If you want to have like full sleep tracking and then you can just get up and go, you don't have to just charge your Apple Watch in the morning before you leave. I mean, that's also an option too. But that's kind of like my only quang with that. Other than that, the things I love about it, if you are a big Nike Run Club fan, they have a really great app with the actual Apple Watch Sport, the Nike band. That's the one I have. It's actually really cool. I don't use it. I don't run that much. I like to just play basketball, like lift a lot. But different strokes for different folks, if you like the whole aspect of running the Nike Run Club, this is definitely going to be something that you're going to love and enjoy. And then the last thing I really, really love, I kind of hinted on this earlier is the heart rate. A lot of people say it wasn't accurate. Is it not? For me, it's pretty accurate. I think what they've done, at least with the Apple Watch 3 version, they've made this thing super, super accurate. And when it tracks, it tracks your resting heart rate. So, you know, when you're just kind of normal, it also tracks when your heart rate is going up and it's crazy. It will even alert you. Now, granted, I need to check on this, but it will alert you when your heart rate goes above 120 beats per minute. When you're just in a normal state, it will alert you because they're saying there's a, you know, a regular heart rhythm. I'm not going to lie, over the past couple of nights, I've looked at my phone the next morning and I'll get like three or four notifications that my heart rate went up to like 120 beats per minute. And I was like, I have a nightmare or a bad dream. Should I be concerned? So I might have to like look back into that. But I think that's a really good feature for those who are trying to look at their different heart patterns. It's really cool. I really like the Apple Watch. My recommendation, if your question now is like, well, no, should I get one? This is what I say. If they're still available, get the Apple Watch 2, because of the fact that Apple Watch 3 only has a couple more features that are above it. Do not get the cellular version. I have it. I barely use it. Just get the regular GPS version. I really just, I think it's GPS only, I think. Just get the GPS only. No need to get the cellular. You'll never use your phone. You're watching your phone separately. You'll always have them together anyway, maybe unless you want to know. Just if you can find Apple Watch 2, get the Apple Watch 2. Series 1 is kind of pushing it. But if you can try to get Series 2 or 3 GPS only, you'll be very satisfied. I do say get at least maybe two or three types of bands. I have the Hype Band. I call this the Hype Band, which is the black and red. And then I have a kind of professional band, which is my leather brown one. And then I have another active band for when I'm actually like working out. Or, you know, it's just good to have an extra one. But I definitely advise getting it. If you're trying to stay active, I think anything that's going to have you staying active throughout the day with the standing up rings, I think that's huge. If it's telling you to move and it's telling you that you need to exercise 30 minutes a day, I think you got yourself a great fitness track. Put in the comment box below if you want me to do maybe a review or you want me to talk about the Fitbit or the Garmin, because I definitely had my fill of those. Let me know in the comment box below. If you like this video, don't forget to subscribe. And if you haven't already, hit that bell button so you can stay up to date on all the videos that are coming out. You already know. I'll catch you later. Embrace the Hype.