Apple is known for its amazing line of smartphones, tablets and computers. However, what most people don’t really know is that, one of the reasons why their techs are so addicting and reliable is because they make sure that their products are indeed proven and tested. One of the best examples of that is how they actually test their Apple Watches.
Apple Watch is actually known today a the most popular wearable device, not just in the United States, but to the entire world. Apple just released the newest generation of iPhones this fall, and according to they will be releasing new Apple watches, which will apparently will be way better than the previous ones.
APPLE WATCH
For the benefit of the doubt, Apple Watch is actually a line of smartwatches that is developed and designed by one of the biggest tech companies in the world, Apple Inc. Apple Watch basically offers fitness tracking and other health oriented capabilities and it can also be connected with your iPhone and other Apple devices. It was released in 2015 and quickly became the best-selling wearable device with 4.2 million smart watches sold that same year.
You may be wondering what exactly does this smartwatch has to do with Apple having a secret gym. Well, that specific gym that is located in California is not exactly a gym, it was more a fitness lab.
APPLE FITNESS LAB
According to Independent UK, Apple’s secret fitness lab is actually located just a couple of miles away from the newest Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. This exercise lab is said to be off-limits to public and you must be invited in order for you to be able to visit. This is said to be the gym where Apple employees get to work out, not just to get fit and burn calories, but to actually do their job.
This fitness lab wasn’t just made to be just an ordinary gym, this was said to be built to test out the Apple watches that the company releases. Apple watches is such a great tool for people who loves to work out and stay active because it has a lot of features. Tech Review even mentioned that Apple is working on how the watch could actually be parked up with gym equipments wirelessly. The next generation of Apple watches may now also be give you tips on how to optimize your gym time, as well as tips on how you can breather better.
The secret Apple fitness lab was said to have already collected more biometric data compared to any other companies in the world, which is actually not surprising at all. “Over the past five years, we’ve logged 33,000 sessions with over 66,000 hours of data, involving more than 10,000 unique participants,” Jay Blahnik from Apple told Men’s Health.
HIGH-TECH GYM EQUIPMENT AND EXPERTS
It was mentioned earlier that this secret Apple facility is not just an ordinary gym, because it was more of a fitness lab. That is because Apple employees get to work out in it, while actually testing if the Apple watches are working like they should be. This fitness lab also doesn’t just have ordinary Apple employees working in it, but they also have physiologist, nurses and medics, to actually monitor everything. Since Apple have been making sure to revolutionize how people listen to their music, how people get to work as well as with their every day lives, they have been now also making sure to give you a better assistance on improving your health with the help of Apple Watch.
Its first features contain how you can actually count your calories that you’re burning, as well as how much distance you have actually travelled in a specific time. In an ordinary gym, you get to use specific equipments, but in the secret Apple fitness lab, they actually have more high-tech equipments and not all of them can be found in any other local gyms that you go to. One of the best things about it is that since it is actually a fitness lab, they get to test out literally everything. Especially with their three climate-controlled temperature chamber that can be set to everything from how cold it is in Antarctica, as well as how hot it may be in the middle of the dessert.
It is basically a real-life Zootopia, only it is not exactly a city, but a laboratory. “Our lab has collected more date on activity and exercise than any other human performance study in history.” Apple’s director of fitness and health for technologies, Jay Blahnik said.
