![]() Just because you’re not running a 20-minute 5k, that doesn’t mean Strava isn’t for you. If you wear a heart-rate monitor, you can also see how your pulse has changed during the course of both activity and individual segments. This means you can see how fast you completed particular sections of a course compared to your previous efforts, and indeed compared to members of your cycling or running club and the wider community. Its standout feature is that it automatically breaks your workouts into segments. Where Strava excels is in the heaps of data it lets you sink your teeth into, allowing you to monitor progress and compare your performances to the rest of its enormous community. You can use your phone’s location services to track your workouts, or log them on your GPS watch or trip computer and sync the data to Strava later. If you’re really into running or cycling, Strava is probably the best free fitness-tracking app you’ll find. If you don’t always have your phone with you when you exercise, you can log activities manually, and the app can also be connected to apps such as Strava and Runkeeper to help it build a more detailed picture of your overall activity levels. The fact you don’t need to press a single button to record any of your activity is what separates Google Fit from its competitors.īy default, the app sets a target of moving 5km a day, but you can change this to any figure you like, and you’ll be notified as soon as you reach your goal. Providing you’ve enabled “Activity detection” and “High-accuracy location” in the app’s settings, it can also detect when you start running or cycling, and will activate your phone’s location services to gather more detailed information such as your speed, distance and elevation. ![]() Then, as you go about your everyday activities, Google Fit will run silently in the background, automatically tracking your steps using your device’s motion sensors. The app also requests permission to use your location data. When you first launch the app, you’re asked to enter basic information including your gender, height and weight. It’s well suited to casual users and fitness enthusiasts alike, thanks to its automatic step-counting and activity tracking and the ability to get direct feedback on your activities using live tracking. ![]() Google Fit has come on leaps and bounds since it was released in 2014.
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