Not to exaggerate, but I don’t know how I got through workouts before getting my Apple Watch. For starters, it helps track my sleep (as long as I wear it in bed—which is surprisingly comfortable to do, FYI) so I have a better idea of the energy levels I’m working with the next day.

During my workouts, I love that it seamlessly connects with my AirPods and Spotify, so I don’t have to check my phone to put on a playlist and I can just tell Siri to skip a song, hands-free, if I’m not feeling it.

The watch comes with plenty of watch faces to choose from, and I picked one with a timer function on the home screen, which makes it easy to hit the timer and limit my rests so that I’m not staring into space for too long in between sets.

When I decide to finish off my workout with an incline walk on the treadmill or when I jog back home from the gym, my watch shows me which heart rate zone I’m in. That’s super helpful because one of my goals for this year is getting more zone 2 cardio in to improve my endurance and aerobic fitness.

Having all these metrics at my fingertips (literally) gets me motivated to log a strength session and close my rings earlier, day after day.

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