Apple Watch feature

Christie has long been seriously interested in the topic of women’s health and even is an advisor to a number of organizations on this issue. Christie has already run the Kilimanjaro half marathon with her Apple Watch and is currently on her personal blog at apple.com about the process of preparing for a full marathon in support of the women’s health charity Every Mother Counts supported by the supermodel.

According to Christie, Apple Watch motivates you to sit less, move more and warm up more often every day by using better sensors such as an accelerometer, a built-in heart rate monitor that measures your heart rate during exercise and helps to determine the intensity of the activity and improve the accuracy of calories burned, GPS and Wi-Fi module on iPhone, in order to reflect a complete picture of your daily physical activity.

Christie says: “To be honest, I’ve never really gotten into gadgets, and it’s amazing to me how accustomed I am to the Apple Watch and rely on my watch when I run. I am very motivated to be able to track my progress in the Activity app on my iPhone and get accurate statistics such as distance traveled, running speed and other metrics in one place. “

To the taste of one of the most beautiful women in the world, there were several straps at once, which Christie changes to suit her mood. During a trip to the Caribbean, Christie wore a coral-colored strap, set up a spectacular animated jellyfish as a screensaver on the display, and during training in Los Angeles chose a yellow poppy for the screensaver, which is the symbol of California.

Apple Watch helps Christie track the sun’s position throughout the day so she can plan her workouts during the coolest times. She also uses her Apple Watch to answer incoming calls and send animated emojis, which are only found on the Apple Watch, to her children and husband Ed Burns, all of whom receive them on their iPhones. In addition, the supermodel praised the watch in terms of practicality and durability, believing that in addition to great looks and personalization, there is another attractive factor: “Nothing like them just exists.”

Christie says she was never attracted to the idea of ​​using fitness trackers, and it was only when she got the opportunity to see her stats while running on the Apple Watch that the moment, she says, became kind of a watershed.

With the Workout app, Apple Watch lets you measure time, distance, burned calories, pace, and speed while doing cardio in the gym or outdoors. As soon as you select the type of exercise, the watch itself activates the necessary sensors.

In addition, Christy says that, for example, during a race, the Apple Watch allows you to distribute efforts, signaling that you have covered the next mile, and then reporting the halfway mark.

Christy found that after she started using the Apple Watch with her iPhone, the Workout app remembered more and more information about her workout style and method each time.

And after a while, she did not need a phone for exercising on a treadmill or jogging down the street, she left it at home, because the Apple Watch began to record the results themselves with extreme accuracy.

A few weeks ago, while training in Los Angeles, Christie ran the 32 kilometers – the longest distance in her entire preparation for the London Marathon.

For this race, the motivation given by the Apple Watch was important to her, with the help of which she always monitors detailed statistics on the distance traveled and running speed, and especially appreciates the fact that with the Apple Watch all this information is conveniently read from the wrist and the data is collected in one place.

Throughout the day, she tries to run a kilometer in a little less than 6 minutes: “I was glad that I didn’t get too tired by the end of the race. Now it seems to me that my goal to run the distance in less than 4 hours is quite realistic. “

(Note: On average, in US marathon competitions, women cover a mile in 6,5 minutes. Christie’s best is 5,7 minutes per kilometer. The world record for a women’s marathon is 2 hours 15 minutes 25 seconds, which is about 3,2 minutes per kilometer).

Christie says she was looking forward to trying the Apple Watch, given that calorie counting has always been important to her, not only during active sports, but also at rest.

In her ideal understanding, those calories that are spent on heartbeat, lung function and the functioning of the body are also important for her to consider. “The Activity and Workout apps on my Apple Watch counts calories burned not only from my workout, but also from my natural exercise, which is great!” – says Christie.

Last week, during a class with her trainer Andy Speer, supermodels managed to burn 289 “active” calories. “I really love that the calorie reports are so accurate, this information is very motivating to me!” – she said.

For many years, Christy has devoted a lot of attention to yoga, which helps her to maintain balance and to be in equilibrium. “No other activity gives me so much mental, spiritual and physical benefit,” she says.

While doing yoga, Christie selects Other mode on her Apple Watch in the Workout app and checks her heart rate before and after Shavasana. “It’s amazing to see how quickly my heart rate drops in just a few minutes of rest, when you focus your mind,” she says.

Depending on the location, Christie tunes the dial to the local rhythm of life. For example, at home in New York, she often checks not only the activity tracker, but also the data on upcoming meetings, taking into account the busy schedule, family matters and, of course, workouts.

Christie says: “It’s great to see the tweets on my wrist from people supporting my endeavors. I am grateful to them because it is not easy to play sports after a long flight, especially when the climate changes from hot to cold. I keep on emailing and on Instagram about the marathon, and I also keep thinking about the mothers we traveled with and met in Tanzania as part of the Every Mother Counts project. ”