Create a custom workout on Apple Watch

You can create a custom workout on your Apple Watch to support your fitness goals. Modify time, calorie, and distance goals; set a pace for outdoor workouts; add warmup and cooldown times; and add work and recovery intervals, and more.

Create a custom workout

You can modify existing workouts and create just the workout you want.

A pool swim workout in progress showing the workout’s elapsed time, the distance in a timed interval, and the next timed interval.

Add warmup, work, recovery, and cooldown intervals

You can tailor your workouts to include a warmup period, repeating work and recovery intervals, and a time to cool down.

Go to the Workout app in the Custom tile, tap Warmup or Cooldown, tap Goal Type, then tap Skip. To remove a work or recovery interval, tap it, then tap Delete Interval.
Custom workouts are available in all workout types except Multisport, and Open Water Swim.

Add alerts to a workout

You can receive a variety of alerts during a workout. For example, for an Outdoor Run workout, you can be alerted when your heart rate falls within 133 – 141 beats per minute.

To set up alerts, follow these steps.

Go to the Workout app Go for a swim with Apple Watch

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Apple Watch User Guide

Create a custom workout on Apple Watch