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Were people asking for something like this, or is this Google responding to Apple's HealthKit? I understand the need to offer competing products on their own platform, but I've come to doubt the long term usefulness/support of products in that second category.
A better name would be "Google Cardio" (or Met Con if you want to be trendy). Cardio != Fit. Strength is as much or more an aspect of fitness.
That's my main problem with the fitness app industry at large. They are much more focused on steps, running and calories than actual fitness. And don't get me wrong, cardio works to a good extent. For most of sedentary folks, doing anything will be better than doing nothing, and their fitness level will improve. But real fitness is about a lot more: strength training, interval training, sports, etc. Bodyweight workou…
Perceptions of weightlifting and strength put exercises like that outside the realm of the upper-middle class fitness realm. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/half-lif...
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And you can see that strength training or HIIT are completely left out from the announcement. Strava, Withings, Runtastic, Runkeeper and Noom Coach: all of them tracking apps, with very little emphasis on the prescriptive aspect of fitness. People need a coach, not a tracker.
And the only way I can see that solution happening is some sort of full-body wearable, neck to toe. I remember an Under Armor commercial demoing some sort of envisioned prototype of this kind of tech. edit: They also have something called Armor39, a strap that goes around your chest. I am now curious. Anyone used this?
I'm hoping they can incorporate something for weight lifting too. It'd be awesome to chart your growth in a more intuitive way rather then just using Excel.
Does it link to "Google Health"? It might be interesting to have exercise data in an electronic medical record format.
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It is meant to aggregate data from other fitness apps. They just need to integrate with Google Fit
>"No need to check one app to see your weight and another to review a run" Except the blog post doesn't allude to anything more than what's already present. I can already input weight and run time and it looks like it tracks heartbeat. Maybe the phone app has problems loading widgets with the webservice currently being flakey.
Just installed the phone app. Less a "comprehensive view", and more of a pedometer with graphs. You can manually add activities but the only options are: Walking, Running, Biking, Other. And even then, you can only record duration. I suppose there is hidden integration with the wearables, but why can't I manually input the data? If I can't record squats, then what's the point?
There are surprisingly few, if any at all sites/apps fulfilling my very modest basic criteria.
-weight log
-calorie log
-gym and cardio progress log and plan
-not using Liberian units of measurements.
GDoc spreadsheet still seems like the best option.
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Don't they do any market research at all at Google? No one interested in tracking anything will find this useful. Even the people only using a pedometers won't use it. This is a horrible interface getting that one number tracked that they are interested in.
Now I'm upset. So much money to spend and one lackluster product after another.
However, as soon as I got it installed, all my previous months' data was simply gone. Not imported into Google Fit, but just gone.
Fitbit wasn't perfect, but it was better than this.
What about people who do things which require real athleticism or strength?
A better name would be "Google Cardio" (or Met Con if you want to be trendy). Cardio != Fit. Strength is as much or more an aspect of fitness.
True, but be careful to not fall into the other extreme. There was a time when I was lifting 3 times a week, every week, bench pressing 100kg, etc. And I tried to ride a bike uphill (pretty long ride) and nearly puked my guts out. You need both strength and endurance. And some fine motor skills, like playing ping-pong or throwing a frizbee. And some R&R interspersed in there, regularly, otherwise you'll collapse from…