To monitor your health and always keep in shape, the best app to choose is undoubtedly “Google Fit”: here’s what it is, how it works and how to use it.
Compounding technological innovation, our health and the control and monitoring of our physical well-being are increasingly entrusted to technology. There’s an app for everything: the app that monitors sleep, the app that monitors how much water you drink in a day, the app that alerts you at the set time to take medications and supplements, and the app that reminds you to work out and monitors your workout and health status.
You’ll be spoilt for choice with each of these apps, but when it comes to “health monitoring” apps, there’s no doubt about it: Google Fit is the best all-round app designed as a virtual assistant for keeping fit with regular, consistent physical activity: find out what it is and how it works!
What is Google Fit
If you think Google Fit is one of the many apps that offer you daily workouts to keep you healthy, you’ll have to think again, it’s much more than that! It is in fact an application that aims to be complete and 100% safe, not to mention that it was developed by the web giant Google in collaboration with the WHO (World Health Organization) and the American Heart Association. Its development comes in response to a need, that of going to stimulate users to move, even a little, but daily and regularly.
Dedicated to Android users, Google Fit, through your smartphone, has the ability to capture your every movement without the need to be started. Every time you do activity, a simple walk, a bike ride, a run or a whole strenuous workout, Google Fit will be able to sense it, monitor it and insert it within your personalized card. Its precision promises great results, although the best performance can only give it in combo with Wear OS smartwatches, so you’ll have the possibility to monitor additional data as well, such as your gait speed.
The features of Google Fit
The features offered by Google Fit are many and all very useful, starting with the monitoring of physical activity, a feature for which the app was developed. As previously mentioned, the app, during motor activity, even if mild, records data and stores it, then showing the results obtained at the end of the day. All the data acquired during the time of use of the application are processed and proposed to the user through statistics, which show the trend of the data about the intensity of the activity, duration, speed, heart rate, the route taken and the altitude. All statistics are presented to the user in a clear and easy-to-read manner.
The user is then prompted to create their own personal goals, which will be stored by the app and repurposed to spur constant movement. Some of the standard goals might be weight loss or daily steps. Not only that, through the function associated with the smartwatch, Google Fit also proposes itself in its sleep monitoring function, suggesting then, depending on the data collected, a better time to lie down and to wake up in the morning for a perfect rest.
The basic functionality of use provided by Google Fit are two: the minutes of movement and cardio points. By “minutes of movement” we mean a real motivational challenge that urges the user to take more steps, climb more floors of stairs, do more exercise. With “cardio points” instead we mean the exhortation to the user to accelerate their heart rate by doing cardio activities: for every minute of cardio activity, you accumulate points.
Using Google Fit
Getting the Google Fit application is simple: just be in possession of a smartphone with Android operating system and that’s it. On the digital store you can download and install the app in just a few minutes. Once installed, it is recommended, for the safe storage and monitoring of your data, to access the app through your Google account (the Gmail email, of course!).
The next screen to login will be the one dedicated to the creation of your personal profile: here the application will require each user to indicate, in addition to personal data, some physical parameters necessary for the proper reception and processing of data: height, age and body weight. Once this simple step is completed, you’ll be ready to start having Google Fit monitor your activity!