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What Workout Should I Choose on My Fitness Watch? A Guide to Tracking FIT4MOM Classes

If you wear an Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit, or another fitness tracker to FIT4MOM, you've probably had this moment: “Wait…what workout am I supposed to select?”

HIIT? Strength? Cardio? Pilates? Barre?

With so many workout options, it can be confusing to know which setting best matches your FIT4MOM class.

The good news? You don't need to find the exact FIT4MOM class name on your watch. Instead, choose the workout category that most closely matches the primary focus of the class.

We've put together a simple guide so you can spend less time scrolling through your watch and more time getting your workout in:

Now let's break it down.

Stroller Strides

Stroller Strides is a full-body workout that combines cardio, functional strength and core work—all while your little one rides along in the stroller.

Because it's intentionally a mix of different types of movement, there's no single setting that perfectly captures every part of class, so we choose the best fit for a combination workout of cardio and functional strength work.

Apple: Functional Strength Training

Garmin: Cardio

Fitbit: Circuit Training

The important thing: Don't stress about finding the perfect setting. Your Stroller Strides workout still counts!

Stroller Barre

Stroller Barre combines Pilates and barre-inspired movements with functional strength, balance, flexibility and core work. Don't let it fool you though - this workout sneaks up on you!

Apple Watch: Barre

Garmin: Pilates

Fitbit: Pilates

Apple Watch includes a dedicated Barre workout option, making it the natural choice. If you're using Garmin or Fitbit and Barre isn't available, Pilates is a good alternative because of the controlled, low-impact strength and core-focused movements.

Body Well & Body Boost

Body Well & Body Boost, our HIIT (high intensity interal training) workouts combine strength and cardio intervals to give you an efficient, full-body workout.

Apple Watch: HIIT

Garmin: HIIT

Fitbit: HIIT

This is the easiest one! You'll likely see your heart rate rise significantly and fall throughout class as you move between challenging intervals and recovery periods.

That's why HIIT is the best match across Apple Watch, Garmin and Fitbit.

Body Ignite

Body Ignite is our strength-focused workout designed to build strength, stability and muscular endurance. You'll work through full-body functional movements and resistance exercises, making a strength-based workout setting the best match.

Apple Watch: Functional Strength Training

Garmin: Strength

Fitbit: Weights

Strides 360

Strides 360 is our high-energy, cardio-focused workout featuring strength, cardio, speed, agility and quickness (SAQ) drills.

Running is always optional, but you'll move through intervals and higher-intensity bursts that make HIIT the best overall match for tracking the class.

Apple Watch: HIIT

Garmin: HIIT

Fitbit: HIIT

Core & Restore: Connect

Core & Restore: Connect is a prenatal and postpartum mat workout that incorporates core work, restorative pelvic floor work, controlled movement, focused breathing, and Pilates-inspired exercies to rebuild and reconnect with your core and pelvic floor.

Apple Watch: Pilates

Garmin: Pilates

Fitbit: Yoga

Does Choosing the Right Workout Setting Really Matter?

A little—but probably not as much as you think.

Your fitness watch uses the workout category along with other information, such as heart rate, movement and workout duration, to track your activity. But no watch setting will perfectly capture every movement in a workout that combines multiple training styles. There's no magic button that perfectly labels all of that.

So think of your watch setting as the closest category, rather than a perfect description of everything you did.

And don't get too hung up on calorie numbers, either. Different devices—and even different workout settings on the same device—can produce different estimates.

Your watch is a tool for tracking your activity and noticing your own trends. It's not a scorecard for how good your workout was.

The Most Important Setting? “Start Workout.”

Whether you choose HIIT, strength, Pilates, cardio or the generic workout setting, the most important thing is that you showed up and moved your body. You made time for yourself. You got stronger. You connected with other moms. And maybe your little one had a pretty good time along the way, too. That's a workout worth tracking.

Ready to Find Your FIT4MOM Workout?

Whether you're looking for a stroller-friendly workout you can do with your baby, a mom-only strength or HIIT workout, or a gentler way to reconnect with your core, there's a FIT4MOM workout for you.

FIT4MOM North Atlanta offers fitness classes for moms throughout Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, East Cobb, Roswell, Dunwoody, Brookhaven and Buckhead.

Come try a class, meet your village and find the workout that fits your season of motherhood.