{"id":917249,"date":"2026-07-03T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/ring-toss-why-the-apple-watch-activity-goals-need-an-update\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:12:10","slug":"ring-toss-why-the-apple-watch-activity-goals-need-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/ring-toss-why-the-apple-watch-activity-goals-need-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring toss: Why the Apple Watch activity goals need an update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Macworld<\/p>\n<p>Right from the start, the Apple Watch eschewed the popularly recommended target of clocking 10,000 steps a day \u2014 and for good reason. For one thing, the 10,000 steps goal is entirely arbitrary: there\u2019s no science behind it, and it was first chosen largely because it\u2019s an easy number to remember&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3183369\/ring-toss-why-the-apple-watch-activity-goals-need-an-update.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Laine Byron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Macworld Right from the start, the Apple Watch eschewed the popularly recommended target of clocking 10,000 steps a day \u2014 and for good reason. For one thing, the 10,000 steps goal is entirely arbitrary: there\u2019s no science behind it, and it was first chosen largely because it\u2019s an easy number to remember&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,536,451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-science-nature","category-watch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}