Coaching you to a healthier and more active life
Being active is important to our health, but how much or what kind of activity do you need?
Google Fit collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop Heart Points, an activity goal based on WHO’s global recommendations and shown to impact health
Heart Points
Activities that get your heart pumping harder have tremendous health benefits for your heart and mind. You’ll earn one heart point for each minute of moderately intense activity, such as picking up the pace when walking your dog, and double points for more intense activities such as running. It takes just 30-minutes of brisk walking five days a week to reach WHO’s recommended amount of physical activity shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, improve sleep and increase overall mental well-being.
Coaching that fits you
Achieve your fitness goals through customised coaching and actionable tips based on your health and activity history. Google Fit also makes it easy to monitor your progress and track your activity right from your phone or smartwatch.
However you move, make it count
From swimming to strolling, any activity that gets you moving makes an impact on your health. That’s why Google Fit works with many of your favourite apps and health devices 1 to give you credit for all your moves and provide a holistic view of your health.
Google Fit guide: Everything you have to think about Google’s wellness stage
Google Fit is the fitness app for the rest of us. It’s not the app that doubles as a social network or offers weekly fitness challenges. Instead, Google Fit focuses on simplicity and doing a few core things really well.
There are benefits and downsides to that approach, all of which we’ll explore in our comprehensive Google Fit guide.
Google Fit profile & navigating the app
Fitness apps can be hit or miss — some are overly packed with features and require a learning curve while others have an intuitive design but not many features. Google Fit falls in the latter category. Depending on what type of user you are, you’ll either think Google Fit is the best thing ever or way too simple for what you need.
Once you tell Google Fit a little about yourself (gender, date of birth, weight, and height), you’ll see a quick walkthrough of the app’s two main activity metrics: Move Minutes and Heart Points (more on these later). After that, you’ll find yourself on the app’s home screen.
There are three main sections of the Google Fit app: Home, Journal, and Profile. A brief description of each can be found below:
Home: The Home screen shows an overview of your current day’s activities and health metrics, including Move Minutes and Heart Points, steps taken, calories burned, distance traveled, heart rate data, and weight.
Journal: The Journal could also be referred to as a schedule or an agenda. It’s a simple, scrollable list of all your recorded activities, whether that be a short walk or a long swim.
Profile: The Profile page is where you’ll adjust your Move Minutes and Heart Points, as well as personal information.
Head back to the Home tab and click on the big profile widget on the top. This will take you to a summary of your daily, weekly, and monthly activity stats in the form of Move Minutes and Heart Points. If you scroll through your history and want more details on your activity stats for that day, click on the day and you’ll find all your recorded activities. From there, you can click on an individual activity to see more minute details like distance, steps, calories, and pace metrics.
Google’s goal with Move Minutes and Heart Points is to make the results of exercising easier to understand. It’s a different approach to what other fitness apps offer, but that’s not a bad thing. It just means that if you’re already used to tracking your fitness with another app, you may not want to dive right into Google Fit. However, the focus on Move Minutes and Heart Points is a seriously valuable way to go about teaching users how to stay healthy. Like I said — it’s the fitness app for the rest of us.
Apps compatible with Google Fit
Google Fit is its own app — why would you want to connect it with another fitness app? There are a few reasons.
Let’s say you use a Garmin device for tracking your workouts through an app like Runtastic, but you really love Google Fit’s Move Minutes and Heart Points metrics. If you connect your Google Fit account to Runtastic, your fitness data will automatically transfer over to Google Fit.
You also might want to connect Google Fit to another app if you’re using a Wear OS device. As we’ve already discussed, Google’s fitness app isn’t the most versatile app out there. So, if you want to keep track of your activity in a more powerful app like Strava or Runkeeper, connecting your Google Fit account to a third-party app will do the trick.
What apps are compatible with Google Fit? Check out some of the most popular Google Fit-compatible apps below:
Calorie Counter — Asken Diet
Lost It!
Under Armour Record
Workout Trainer
Runkeeper
Runtastic
Nike Run Club
Pokémon Go
Fitwell
Runtastic Results Fitness & Home Workouts
Calm
MyFitnessPal — Calorie Counter
8fit Workouts & Meal Planner
Run with Map My Run
Map My Fitness Workout Trainer
Walk with Map My Walk
Drink Water Reminder
BodySpace
Sleep As Android
Daily Yoga
Strava
Dreem Coach
Polar Flow
Mindbody
Clue Period Tracker
HealthifyMe
Moto Body
Monitor Your Weight
Runtastic PRO
Calorie Counter by FatSecret
Endomondo
Instant Heart Rate
Instant Heart Rate Plus
Noom
Withings Health Mate
Map My Ride
Seven — 7 Minute Workout
Progression Workout Tracker
Weight Track Assistant
Runtastic Steps
PlexFit for Pebble
SmartBand Talk SWR30
SmartBand 2 SWR12
Pedometer
Glow: Fertility Calculator
Instant — Quantified Self, Track Digital Wellbeing
Qardio
Freeletics
Jefit
Lifesum
Walgreens
Headspace
You can also schedule recurring exercises with Google Fit through Google Calendar. To do so, open Google Calendar, tap the “+” button on the bottom-right corner, then tap Exercise. From there, you can choose which exercises you’d like to schedule (run, walk, yoga, hike, etc.), how often you’d like the exercise to recur, the duration of your exercise, and what time of day you’d like to exercise.
If you live and die by Google Calendar (like me), this is a great way to integrate it into your schedule.
Devices compatible with Google Fit
A number of fitness and health devices are compatible with Google Fit, most of them being Wear OSsmartwatches. Google Fit is the default fitness app for Wear OS devices (unless a company includes its own fitness app), so you can expect to use Google Fit if you pick up a Wear OS smartwatch.
Every Wear OS smartwatch is compatible with Google Fit, though the data the app records will depend on which watch you’re using. For instance, Google Fit won’t be able to record heart rate data if you’re using a Wear OS device without a heart rate sensor, such as the older Skagen Falster. If your Wear OS watch doesn’t have a heart rate sensor but you happen to own a standalone heart rate sensor (such as a chest strap or arm band), you can connect that device to Google Fit to see your heart rate data.
Other non-Wear OS devices work with Google Fit too, though there are far fewer of them. Notably, the Xiaomi Mi Band 3 and Mi Band 4 work with Google Fit, as well as the Huawei Band 3 Pro. Other Google Fit-compatible devices include the Withings Move and Move ECG, Withings Body Cardio, Body, and Body Plus smart scales, Eufy Smart Scale, Smart Scale C1, Smart Scale P1, and even the old Sony SmartBand. All Polar devices are also compatible with Google Fit.
If you own a Fitbit device and would like your fitness data transferred over to Google Fit, there’s a third-party app for that, but no official way of connecting your accounts from the Fitbit app itself.
Do you need the Google Fit app if you already own a Google Fit-compatible device?
Nope, but you won’t get the best experience that way. Smartwatches and fitness trackers don’t have big screens, making it more difficult to view detailed activity information. Installing the Google Fit app on your phone will ensure you’re getting the most data in the best way possible.
Also, if you want to connect your Google Fit account to another fitness app that’s not available on your watch, you’ll need to download the Google Fit app on your phone.
What’s missing from Google Fit?
Google Fit’s strengths lie in its simplicity. Essentially, it’s the app version of a basic activity tracker — it keeps track of your simplest health metrics and not much more.
The main aspect missing from Google Fit is any kind of social platform. Other popular fitness apps, like Fitbit or Strava, put an emphasis on community. Being able to reach out to a community of like-minded people to help you along your fitness journey can be extremely helpful in certain situations. Fitbit’s app, for instance, let’s you join health and fitness groups, post status updates and photos, comment on posts, and ask for advice if you need it. Strava focuses more on activity progression and staying up to date on how your friends are performing. None of that is available in Google Fit.
The app also lacks any training programs. This is certainly an advanced feature that not all fitness apps have, but it’s worth bringing up.
Google Fit also doesn’t display progress over time for certain activities. You can’t click on a running activity and see how you’ve progressed over the previous weeks or months. You can do this with weight, heart rate, Move Minutes, and Heart Points, but not with exercises.
There’s also no food or water logging in Google Fit, though you can keep track of your weight.
Some of these things would be excusable if there was a Google Fit website that gave users more options and features (some apps push the more advanced features to the web to keep the mobile apps cleaner). Unfortunately, Google shuttered the Google Fit web interface in February 2019, so the app is all you get.
Overall, Google Fit is a solid start to what could one day be a powerful fitness application. For right now, it’s simple, clean, and it’s compatible with a ton of other fitness and health apps. Also, Move Minutes and Heart Points are genuinely useful metrics that will no doubt help people get and stay healthy. Whether Google Fit is the app for you will likely depend on what type of athlete you are and whether or not you’re already invested in another app.
We’ll be sure to continually update this article as more Google Fit features are added. For now, let me know in the comments if you use Google Fit. What do you like about it, and what features do you think it’s missing?
Google Fit для Android: превращаем смартфон в фитнес-трекер
Компания Google полноценно запустила свой сервис по отслеживанию физической активности Fit, анонсированный несколькими месяцами ранее. Приложение умеет собирать всю привычную для подобных продуктов статистику, а также работать с целями, которые пользователь сам может задать.
Google Fit различает ходьбу, бег и езду на велосипеде, считает преодолённую дистанцию, количество шагов, сожжённых калорий и даже даёт рекомендации, основываясь на ваших достижениях.
Вы также можете сами задавать для себя конкретные цели, такие как продолжительность занятия или количество шагов, которое вы хотите пройти. После этого Google Fit создаст графическую визуализацию для удобного отслеживания процесса выполнения конкретного задания.
Для того чтобы воспользоваться возможностями Google Fit, не нужны никакие дополнительные гаджеты. Достаточно лишь установить приложение на ваш смартфон и не забыть взять его с собой во время прогулки или тренировки — он будет следить за всеми показателями, используя встроенные датчики. Кроме этого, вы можете также связать с приложением сторонние фитнес-трекеры, сервисы и приложения для более точного отслеживания физической активности. Среди заявленных партнёров — Nike, HTC, LG, RunKeeper, Withings, Motorola, Noom, Runtastic и Polar.
Проанализировать свои результаты также можно сразу внутри приложения или же в браузере, воспользовавшись специальной веб-страницей. Скачать Google Fit можно уже сейчас совершенно бесплатно для часов на Android Wear и всех устройств, работающих на Android не ниже 4.0.
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Краткое описание:
Контролируйте уровень своей физической активности.
Описание:
Google Fit поможет вам вести более активный и здоровый образ жизни!
Какая физическая активность вам нужна и сколько времени уделять тренировкам? С Google Fit вы найдете ответы на эти вопросы. Вместе со Всемирной организацией здравоохранения и Американской кардиологической ассоциацией мы разработали показатель, который поможет вам укрепить здоровье: баллы кардиотренировок.
Всемирная организация здравоохранения и Американская кардиологическая ассоциация рекомендуют уделять не менее 150 минут в неделю аэробным упражнениям средней интенсивности. Всего полчаса энергичной ходьбы пять дней в неделю снижают риск сердечно-сосудистых заболеваний, улучшают сон, работу мозга и психическое здоровье. В Google Fit вы получаете один балл кардиотренировок за каждую минуту занятий умеренной активности, например прогулки быстрым шагом, и двойные баллы за интенсивные нагрузки вроде бега.
Другие возможности Google Fit:
ОТСЛЕЖИВАЙТЕ ТРЕНИРОВКИ НА ТЕЛЕФОНЕ ИЛИ ЧАСАХ
Получайте полезные подсказки и статистику прямо во время прогулки, пробежки или езды на велосипеде. Google Fit использует датчики телефона Android или умных часов Wear OS by Google, чтобы записывать вашу скорость, шаги, маршрут и другие данные.
ДОСТИГАЙТЕ СВОИХ ЦЕЛЕЙ
Проверяйте заработанные за день баллы кардиотренировок и количество шагов. Если вы легко достигаете ежедневных целей, Google Fit поможет увеличить нагрузку и укрепить физическое и психическое здоровье.
СОХРАНЯЙТЕ ИНФОРМАЦИЮ О КАЖДОМ ДВИЖЕНИИ
Телефон Android и умные часы Wear OS by Google автоматически определяют движение, когда вы идете, бежите или едете на велосипеде, и сохраняют данные об активности в журнале Google Fit. Вы можете записывать и любые другие занятия, например йогу, футбол или бокс, выбрав их из списка. За них также будут начислены баллы кардиотренировок.
СИНХРОНИЗИРУЙТЕ ДАННЫЕ РАЗНЫХ ПРИЛОЖЕНИЙ И УСТРОЙСТВ
Чтобы у вас всегда была полная информация о состоянии здоровья и прогрессе тренировок, Google Fit может показывать данные из других приложений и подключаться к устройствам, которые вы используете на занятиях. Поддерживаются сервисы Lifesum, Runkeeper, Strava, MyFitnessPal, Nike Training Club, Basis, Sleep as Android, Health Mate, а также устройства Wear OS by Google, Withings, Xiaomi Mi Band и другие.
ПРОВЕРЯЙТЕ ИСТОРИЮ АКТИВНОСТИ В ЛЮБОЕ ВРЕМЯ
Отчеты об активности с данными из Google Fit и интегрированных приложений доступны в журнале. Вы можете ознакомиться с ними когда угодно и где угодно.