what can i do with workoutkit

With WorkoutKit, you can create and customize various types of workouts and sync them directly from your apps to the Workout app on Apple Watch. Here are some of the key features and capabilities:

1. Goal-Based Workouts: You can create workouts with specific goals such as energy, time, or distance.
2. Pacer Workouts: These workouts focus on maintaining a specific pace.
3. Triathlon Workouts: Seamlessly transition between swimming, biking, and running activities.
4. Custom Workouts: Structured steps with a combination of custom goals and alerts. These steps can be categorized into warm-up, work, recovery, or cool-down types and grouped into repeatable interval blocks.

New Enhancements in watchOS 11

1. User-Selectable Workout Locations: Starting in watchOS 10.1, users can choose between indoor and outdoor locations for their workouts.
2. Average Power Alerts: For running and cycling workouts, you can specify between current and average power alerts.
3. Custom Step Names: You can now customize the names of steps in all workout types, providing more context such as types of exercises, weights, reps, or perceived effort levels.
4. Custom Pool Swimming Workouts:
   • Distance with Time Goal: A new goal type that combines both distance and time for a single workout step. The workout advances to the next step only when both goals are achieved.
   • Pool Length Adjustment: The Workout app can convert distances and scale time based on the actual pool length, ensuring the workout is accurate regardless of the pool size.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the session Build custom swimming workouts with WorkoutKit starting at the "Custom pool swimming workouts" chapter.

Relevant Sessions

1. Build custom swimming workouts with WorkoutKit
2. What’s new in watchOS 11

These sessions provide comprehensive insights into the new features and enhancements in WorkoutKit and watchOS 11.