These connected watches benefit from three very practical new features for sport

Wednesday 18th December 2024 08:02 AM

Google has rolled out its new heart rate and target load scores for most of its smartwatches. They accompany the daily aptitude score, now free.

The first Google Pixel Watch for illustration // Source: Chloé Pertuis for Frandroid

Four months after the release of the new Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Watch 3 XL, Google this week began the deployment of a major update for its older connected watches.

As the firm announced at the beginning of December, it now allows its first watches to benefit from three new scores linked to training: the daily aptitude score, the cardiac load and the target load.

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Daily fitness score: understand everything about this score from Google watches and Fitbit

Until now, the Daily Fitness Score was only available to Fitbit Premium subscribers. From now on, it is offered free of charge for all users of Fitbit or Google watches or bracelets. This score will analyze your training, your recovery and your stress to tell you, every day, if you are able to train or if you should recover more.

Cardiac load and target load

In addition to the daily fitness score, the Fitbit app now offers two new metrics. The cardiac load will give a score and a training status to know if you are progressing in your activity, with five possibilities: undertraining, risk of undertraining, maintenance, improvement or overtraining.

Fitbit’s cardiac load // Source: Chloé Pertuis – Frandroid

For its part, the personalized target load consists, for each person, of defining their objectives in terms of improving cardiac performance. The Fitbit app will then set an intensity goal each day.

Until now reserved only for the Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Watch 3 XL, these new scores are now offered on most Google and Fitbit watches, as indicated on the site 9to5Google :

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