Help Guides

 

Quick Start

  • Select & configure workout settings to start

  • Use AirPods for coaching alerts

  • Start music or podcast playback prior to starting workout

  • Long press for controls to start & stop intervals, mark segments, or stop a workout

  • Spin crown or swipe screen to scroll data

  • Raise wrist or tap screen to hear data

  • Review workouts in Apple Health & Fitness apps on iPhone

  • Share workouts with 3rd party apps through Apple Health

  • Manage intelligent coaching via in-app store

Starting Workouts

  • Select treadmill for indoor runs on a treadmill

  • Select trainer for indoor rides on a trainer

  • Select moderate for steady, moderate paced runs, rides or wheelchair workouts

  • Select interval to configure runs, rides or wheelchair workouts with faster paced intervals

  • Select recovery for slow, recovery paced runs, rides or wheelchair workouts

  • Select ski to begin skiing, then go hit the pow

  • Select board to begin snowboarding, then go shread

Selecting Pool Length

  • Select the correct pool length from the list

  • Select open water for open water swims in lakes, rivers, or the ocean

  • Select open water when swimming in unknown length pools

Configuring Intervals

  • Select short intervals to configure intervals less than 2:00 in length

  • Select medium intervals to configure intervals between 2:00 and 5:00 in length

  • Select long intervals to configure intervals greater than 5:00 in length

  • Select heart rate intervals to configure long intervals that use a target recovery heart rate instead of a fixed recovery time

  • Select track intervals to configure short intervals that use an indoor 200 meter or an outdoor 400 meter running tracks, or for short intervals that use an indoor 250 meter or an outdoor 333 meter cycling track

Setting Run or Wheelchair Pace

  • Set run or wheelchair pace to your long steady workout mile or kilometer pace

  • Pace value is preset to your estimated long steady workout mile or kilometer pace

  • Interval workout pace target is automatically set from the steady workout pace

  • Recovery workout max pace target is automatically set from the steady workout pace

Setting Swim Pace

  • Set swim pace to your 100 meter or 100 yard cruise pace

  • Pace value is preset to your estimated 100 meter or 100 yard swim pace

  • Pace value is preconfigured to your 100 meter pace if the pool length is in metric units, or 100 yard pace if the pool length is in English units

  • Pace value is preset to your 100 meter pace for open water swims

Using AirPods

  • Connect your AirPods to your Watch

  • Start audio in your favorite music or podcast app

  • Launch a World Champ Tech app

  • Select & start workout

Hear Current Data

  • Wake Watch display with wrist raise or tap during workout to hear current data

  • Configure Watch Wake properties in Watch Settings Display & Brightness

  • Set Wake on Wrist Raise, Wake on Crown Up, or simply Wake on Tap

  • Set Wake on Tap Duration to 70 Seconds for less frequent spoken data

Starting Intervals & Marking Segments

  • Select interval type - short, medium, long, heart rate, or track

  • Select number of intervals per interval set, length of interval, and interval recovery time

  • For heart rate intervals, recovery heart rate is the target heart rate that must be met before the next interval begins

  • Long touch workout display to show menu, or swipe up to control screen to show interval toggle button

  • Press interval button to start a new interval set or end an interval set

Marking Segments

  • Press segment button to mark the beginning or end of a segment

Displaying Data

Scrolling Data

  • Swipe up or down to scroll between data screens

  • Spin the crown selector to scroll between data screens if the screen is covered in perspiration or water, when you are wearing gloves, or any time it is difficult to swipe

Data Units

  • Running, walking, and hiking distance & pace data is displayed using the english units of miles, yards, and minutes per mile in the USA. Metric units of kilometers, meters, and minutes per kilometer are used in the rest of the world

  • Swimming distance & pace data is displayed using the english units of miles, yards, and seconds per 100 yards for pools measured in yards, and open water swims in the USA. Metric units of kilometers, meters, and seconds per 100 meters are used for metric length pools and opern water swims in the rest of the world

  • Cycling, and skiing distance & speed data is displayed using the english units of miles, yards, and miles per hour in the USA. Metric units of kilometers, meters, and kilometers per hour are used in the rest of the world

  • Energy data is always expressed as kilojoules with power data in watts

  • Cadence data is provided in steps per minute (running, walking, and hiking), strokes per minute (swimming), or pushes per minute (wheelchair workouts)

  • Heart rate data is displayed in beats per minute

  • Altitude data is shown in feet for english units and meters in metric units

  • Ski run turn radius is displayed in yards in the USA and meters in the rest of the world

  • Ski run turn G force is displayed in G's

Climbs

  • Climbs are categorized based on their length and grade from the easiest category 5 to the hardest category 1, with a select few of extreme length & grade described as beyond category

Ski Runs

  • Ski runs are categorized based on their grade from the easiest beginner runs to the steepest expert only runs

  • Ski runs categories are based on your local ski run categorization system: USA & Canada, ANZAC, Europe, Scandanavia, or Japan

Effort Levels

  • Effort levels are described based on the primary energy system employed during the effort or the dominant physiological effect of the effort

  • Recovery (or light) efforts are too light to cause fatigue, but increase blood flow to aid recovery

  • Fat burning workouts are moderate effort workouts where the primary energy source is lipids and fatty acids

  • Carbohydrate burning (or moderate) workouts are slightly harder steady efforts where the primary energy source is carbohydrates

  • Threshold (or brisk) efforts are hard workouts near the point where lactic acid accumulates in the body

  • Maximal oxygen (or hard) efforts are very challenging, minutes long efforts near the point where the body is consuming the maximum amount of oxygen it can use

  • Sprint (or very hard) efforts are very short, extremely intense efforts

  • Note: to maximize weight loss for fitness you should exercise at the highest possible effort level. Exercising in the fat burn zone doesn't maximize weight loss

Stopping Workouts

  • Spin crown to disable screen water lock when swimming

  • Long touch workout display to show menu, or swipe up to control screen to show recording toggle button

  • Press record button to stop recording and display workout summary data

  • Long touch workout summary display to show menu or swipe down to save workout screen to show save workout button

  • Press save button to complete workout and show recovery heart rate display

Coaching

  • Coaching is only available with an active coaching subscription

Effort Coaching

  • Audible coaching alerts are provided for steady & interval workouts when your heart rate, pace, or cadence falls outside the appropriate target range for the workout

  • For recovery workouts, coaching alerts are only presented when your heart rate, pace, or cadence exceeds the level required for recovery

  • Each mile or kilometers split is analyzed for running or wheelchair workouts, and coaching provided if your heart rate, pace, or cadence drops significantly during the split, or if there is too much variability in your heart rate, pace, or cadence during the split

Fueling Alerts

  • Audible alerts are provided to remind you to hydrate and stay fueled during your workout

  • The alert frequency increases as your workout effort increases

Fatigue Detection

  • Your workout pace or speed, heart rate, and cadence are tracked during steady & interval workouts, and you are notified if you are unable to keep your pace or heart rate within the target workout range

  • You're alerted if you are unable to maintain an appropriate heart rate for your effort level due to fatigue

  • Your heart rate is checked for thermal drift fatigue if it starts to climb during a steady effort

  • Each workout is analyzed, and suggestions to take a rest day are presented if the workout is extremely challenging to insure proper recovery so that your fitness can improve

  • Your cumulative fatigue level is tracked across all World Champ Tech apps, and a suggestion to take a rest or easy is provided if you have reached a point of substantial cumulative fatigue

Climb Coaching

  • Each climb is analyzed to check if your heart rate, pace, or cadence drops significantly during the climb, or if there is too much variability in your heart rate, pace, or cadence during the climb

  • All climbs are tracked with your best effort on a climb, toughest climb, and steepest climb noted

Fitness Improvements

  • Each workout is analyzed for improvements in your resting heart rate and aerobic fitness

  • Your run effort is analyzed for improvements in your aerobic capacity indicating that you can produce greater levels of effort at a lower overall heart rate

  • Improvements in your aerobic fitness including higher aerobic power and maximal aerobic power are noted

  • Improvements in your anaerobic fitness are tracked and observed

Best Effort Tracking

  • All time best efforts are tracked for each mile or kilometer split based on your pace and effort during the split

  • All time best efforts are tracked during longer runs for your best 5K, 10K, half marathon, or marathon split pace and effort

  • All time best efforts are tracked during longer rides for your best 30 second, 1 minute, 5 minute,, 10 minute, 20 minute, and 60 minute effort

  • All time best efforts are tracked for each each stroke type (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley) across a range of English and metric lengths from 20 yards to 400 meters

  • All time best distance per stroke values are tracked for each each stroke type (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley)

Ski Run Coaching

  • Each ski run is analyzed to determine the total number of turns during the run, the maximum and average turn radius, and the maximum and average turn G-force

  • All ski runs are tracked with the steepest, longest, greatest vertical ski runs tracked

  • Your turns on each ski run are tracked with the highest number of turns on a single ski run noted

  • Your turns G-force is tracked with the highest turn G-force noted

Recovery Heart Rate

  • Your post workout heart rate is tracked for at least five minutes following the completion of runs, swim, rides, and wheelchair workouts, and your fitness level classified based on how quickly your heart rate drops

Equipment Tracking

  • Your running, walking, and hiking shoe usage is tracked and you are notified when your running shoes are getting worn and should be replaced

  • Your swimsuit & google usage is tracked and you are notified when your swimsuit & googles are getting worn and should be replaced

  • Your ski & snowboard usage is tracked and you are notified when your equipment is getting worn and should be replaced

  • Your bike & tire usage is tracked and you are notified when your bike & tires are getting worn and should be replaced