The Heart Points are awarded when you increase the intensity of your workout, so a walk would garner one point and an intense run or activity would garner you two points. Move Minutes will track whenever you are active, and Google Fit encourages you to gain these minutes by doing small things throughout the day which increases the minutes you gain, such as walking with a friend, rather than simply sitting down for a coffee. You will then track these key metrics as you exercise. Once you get started you need to enter your information such as weight, height, age and gender.

To achieve this, the metrics focus on 'Move Minutes' and 'Heart Points' – which Google developed alongside the American Heart Association, which moves us away Google is one of the tech giants involved in the wearables industry and has recently made changes to their Google Fit app in order to keep up with everyone else, and even take a different tone.Īs with similar apps, Google intends to gamify healthy activities such as competitive games as we want to beat our friends or brag about how well we’re doing. Smartwatches are very much still in demand right now, although the jury is still out on whether they actually make us fitter or not by wearing them, this has not stopped the health tracking/wearables industry from absolutely booming to become a behemoth and it is predicted to continue to surge and it will reach $48.2 billion by the year 2023.

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