At first glance it sounds like Apple Run five kilometers next June 4 in exchange for a digital medal. But if you know the Apple Watch minimally and its fitness application, you know that behind this simple gesture there is much more. In this article we tell you how to get the exclusive prize of this challenge, although we already anticipated something: see the shoes, because you will want to run.
Behind that little virtual badge there is a whole philosophy that has been revolutionizing the way thousands of people around the world are related to sports, with their health and, above all, with their motivation.
World Running Day
This year's challenge is part of the World Running Daya date that becomes increasingly strength between amateur and professionals. Apple, which has been using similar challenges for years to foster physical activity, has launched the following message: “We are going to run this together.” You just have to register a training of at least five kilometers on June 4 to win a Special Medal in the Fitness apptogether with exclusive animated stickers to use in messages. And although it may seem an unimportant campaign, it is in these small challenges where Apple Watch demonstrates why it remains the most complete smart watch on the market.
Apple's fitness application is not simply a steps accountant or training record. He acts as a personal trainer, motivating you daily, helping you to meet you in the physical aspect and encouraging you to train, to be standing, to be active and To close activity circles. Because that is the key: the famous rings. Who has an Apple Watch knows perfectly what it means to close the red circle of the exercise, the green of movement and the blue of standing. And who has ever achieved it, also knows that it produces absurd but real satisfaction when the three are completed, such as crossing out a pending task, but in your own body.
Apple seeks to turn a healthy habit into a game, and it does so well that even sedentary people have begun to move alone for not breaking their activity streak. Add special awards such as Running Day, which you can only get that day and then stay in your profile as a kind of Digital trophyand you already have the perfect cocktail. The medal is not worth money, you can't hang it on the wall, but it's yours. And that is enough.
Apple fitness application is as good as they say '
In addition, Apple has managed to perfectly integrate the fitness app with other tools of the ecosystem. You can use any app that records training in the health app to complete the challenge: from Nike Run Club Until Strava. And everything ends synchronized as if by magic. You can also share your activity with friends and receive notifications when someone closes a ring, adding a social component that reinforces the experience. You will not run alone, but you will be competing healthily with your colleagues.
In recent years, Apple has launched similar challenges to commemorate key dates, such as International Women's Day, Earth Day or Apple Watch's Anniversary. And there is always a constant: millions of people join, they get up from the couch, make an extra walk, an yoga class or, as in this case, run five kilometers. Not by obligation, but as part of a game.
