Espinal straps an Apple Watch to her ankle for a workout at a Crunch Fitness in Manhattan on Jan 30, 2025. In pursuit of tracking fitness goals in a comfortable manner, a growing number of people are relocating their watches (and causing some confusion along the way). — ©2025 The New York Times Company
In the old days, back when Ana Espinal was wearing an Apple Watch on her wrist at the gym, she often found that her fitness app would shut down during her workout. Espinal has tiny wrists, she said, and she wondered if her loose watch was not able to register her heart rate.
So she sought solutions online, where she found a small community of people who had experienced similar issues and had rectified them in a novel way – by enlisting their ankles.
