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Separately the new High Intensity Interval Training mode of Apple’s native Workout app (which now also includes a lot more options, like cross training, open water swimming, snow sports, etc.) reveals a secret sauce heart-rate mode.
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On the app on the phone I could see more granular metrics including pace analysis, heart rate, heart rate zones, splits, etc.
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After the workout the portion recorded via Strava immediately ported to the iPhone 8 Plus (and would do so with any iPhone) and then to the cloud, so my posse could see it in my Strava activity feed.
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Using Strava to track part of an interval and strength workout the app loaded immediately and showed us a shrunken version of the phone app, with average pace and distance as well as splits.
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Speaking of which, one major upgrade to Series 3 is far faster app loading times. Given the fact that you can already run apps on Apple Watch from Under Armor, Nike, Strava, Wahoo Fitness, Runkeeper and Runtastic (and hundreds more), it’s inevitable that every app maker that can, will take advantage of the new data to be more prescriptive. Garmin, Suunto, Polar, et al, use recovery info for precisely this scenario. But Apple is very confident that third-party app developers are going to harvest the information to issue advice on when to go hard and when you need to bake in another rest day. Apple’s treading carefully here, trying to help people who might have heart conditions or suffer from panic attacks, but they’re still not ready to replace your physician, or deal with the red tape the FDA might require.Īs for recovery and resting heart rate data, it’s semi-useless to most of us at the moment, because it’s not advisory. The other way to say that: They’d need FDA approval to do so, and no wearables maker wants to get this wrong. Apple says it lets users set the rate at which this triggers an alert (rather than use its vast trove of extensive research that would indicate a constant 140bpm when you’re sitting still is unhealthy), because they’re not in the business of giving health advice. An elevated heart rate when you’re sitting at your desk and stressing about work could be indicative of a panic attack a heart condition. Still, if you’re loath to wear a strap, the Watch is state of the art for heart rate capture at the wrist, and we give Apple props for constant improvement, and for adding heart rate recovery and resting rates as stats you can now see right on your wrist during the day and post-workout.Īpple also added a function (also works with legacy Apple Watches) that will notify users if their heart rate spikes at least three times over the period of ten minutes while a wearer is sedentary since the Watch senses motion it can discern between when you’re moving and not, even if you don’t tell the Watch you’re working out. No wrist-worn wearable we’ve tested is as accurate as an EKG chest strap (that isn’t trying to read your pulse via light profusion, a la the Watch, but instead reads the electrical impulses of your heart directly). We’ve seen some aberration during exercises with a lot of wrist movement, such as jumping rope, and Apple even warns users that capturing heart rate is an imperfect art. During testing with Series 2 over the past year, and more recently with Series 3, we’ve found the Apple Watch is generally very good at capturing heart rate during fitness. The way the Watch, both Series 2 and Series 3, captures HR is by taking a very short, few-second sample of the beat interval.