Samsung Health App: easier way to enter a standard workout

[jelling]

There needs to be a way to enter a standard, saved workout easily.  If I always swim the same workout, one click entry should be possible for example.  Manually adding every bit of data for every workout is unuseable.

[realaud]

What are you talking about?  I hit "swim" on my watch, and it has all the information I need.  I set the targets that I want and it's ALWAYS the same.  Go to the workouts screen ON YOUR WATCH, tap the "more" circle then center the swim icon on the screen, tap the very bottom where it says settings (or the target) and put in the info and then set the info you want to see on the workout screen.  Bottom line is if you want your workout to be consistent, all you have to do is go to the workout (on phone or watch) and set your targets.  You get to set a lot more information directly on the watch, though.  Then, all you have to do is tap the workout you want to do.  If you created a routine, you would make the routine a favorite and then just tap it to start your workout.  No need to set it up every time.

[jelling]

Also, I don't see an option on the watch to create a routine, make it a favorite, or select it.

[realaud]

No, you have to create the routine on the phone, give it a name and add the routine as a favorite. Open the health app, go to the exercise tile, tap the more circle. When the exercise list comes up, tap the plus symbol on the top right. Select create workout routine. Add your warmups, exercises and breaks. Set your targets. Name your routine and favorite it.

[jelling]

Well, this would let me set the duration target.  But not the details like pool size, number of laps, etc.

[realaud]

That you would still have to enter manually. I don't know about you, but even though I set a duration target, I sometimes don't meet it and some tomes exceed it, so I would still have to enter the data each time if I was entering it manually. I don't know the length of my community pool, do I keep the default minimum and don't care about distance because I know it's wrong. Time and heart rate are the only meyrics I really bother with.

[jelling]

Yes, this is exactly what I am talking about. 

First, I don't swim with my watch.  It flooded the first time I took it into the pool.  Even though it was still well under warrantee I had to start a legal arbitration to get Samsung to fix it.  So the watch is useless for recording swimming.

I use the phone app to manually enter the work out data.  First I tap "Pool swim".  Then "Enter data".  Then I change the pool length to 25yd from the default 25m.  Then I change the duration from the default 30 minutes to 1 hour.  At least here I can enter numbers into the time hh:mm:ss time fields.  Then I have to use the stupid scroll to go from 0 lengths to 80 lengths (no option to input text numerics).

EVERY TIME I DO THIS WORKOUT.

My suggestion is to have a "favorites" saveable with manually-input data and then selectable each time I do the workout.

It would also be nice to have a standard set of foods in a "meal" in the calorie tracking app.  While we are dreaming....

[realaud]

So, you got a bad watch. I'm sorry about that. I swim with my watch all the time with no adverse affects. The watches were made for swimming, the phones are not. Therefore, you will have to enter your workout data manually every time. Same as with All the workouts. The phones have no physiologic sensors so you will not get heart rate, calories, oxygen or anything that the watch measures, so all data m7ust be entered manually every single time. This is because most people's workouts are variable and no two workouts are the same.