Hi guys,
Trust you are doing well. I am looking for a counter or timer that I could use to monitor certain of my daily activities. For example I'm trying to nurture the habit of reading 45 minutes everyday, so I'd like to set pre-set 45 minutes in the counter or timer and after the set time I'd like the application to notify me but the catch here is I want the app to allow me to select a music from my music files instead of the classic "buzz" or "beep" sounds which to be fair isn't very much to my liking.
I don't mind the app having advertisement and if possible I'd be grateful if it's a free app. My mobile phone is the Huawei Ascend Y300(U8833).
Regards
SpawnX1200
Hey guys, new to the S2, and smartwatches, etc. What fitness apps are recommended? S-Health on it doesn't seem to do much, and the heart rate monitor only checks when I hit the widget... Sooo pretty much only step count right out of the box.
While I'm at it, what other apps are recommended? I do not need notifications for anything outside of text and calls, so anything like that is unnecessary. But I am trying to get the most out of this thing, so let me know!
Please and thanks!
Seriously, nothing? Are there no apps to recommend?
It depends what are you looking for. I saw some apps, but haven't tried them (I use special watch for sport tracking):
- Fit Evolution
- Lifesum
- Nike
- PEAR
... Search App Manager for fitness.
Thanks. I did a search too, but I was hoping some people could tell me what's good or not. Most have good and bad reviews. Guess I'll just start trying things
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Hey guys, new to the S2, and smartwatches, etc. What fitness apps are recommended? S-Health on it doesn't seem to do much, and the heart rate monitor only checks when I hit the widget... Sooo pretty much only step count right out of the box.
While I'm at it, what other apps are recommended? I do not need notifications for anything outside of text and calls, so anything like that is unnecessary. But I am trying to get the most out of this thing, so let me know!
Please and thanks!
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S Health and Nike are the two apps that come with the watch, and as others have noticed, a number of other more specialized apps are dribbling out. S Health automatically checks heart rate (you can set it to "try" to measure every 10 minutes or every hour throughout the day), and also has routines the user can initiate for running, walking, cycling, hiking, elliptical, exercise bike, step machine, and treadmill. All of them record heart rate, some of them more: cycling, for example, also tracks your route, altitude, and speed throughout your ride.
Any apps out there for measuring rowing?? Besides heart rate, that is.
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Any apps out there for measuring rowing?? Besides heart rate, that is.
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Something I would like to. I'd really also like something that senses and accounts for other types of exercises outside of running/biking/etc., such as lifting weights, sit-ups, these kinds of things. Fitbit offers this with their Alta (who knows how well it works though...). At least something that you can enter in the reps, etc. for each workout and calculates calories burned.
Does Strava work here?
I've released two fitness apps so for: Always-On Speed and Always-On Pace. They don't track your activity though, all they do is show current time and your speed or pace.
When I bike, I use Endomondo on my phone for tracking and Always-On Speed on my watch so that I can always see the most important instantaneous information, which is time and speed, of course
Apps I Use Daily
Daily Usage Apps, Professional & Personal
- S Health (does the tracking I need at work, home, etc. love it so much.)
- Workout Trainer (helps me work out daily, even with only 5 minutes of time)
- Lifesum (track food)
- Heart Rate
- Water & Caffeine Intake
- Tip Calculator
- Here Maps
- Flipboard
I'm looking into others but these I use a lot.
Endomondo will be released soon for the Gear S2 and S3.
My apps (Always-On Speed and Always-On Pace) have been there for while.
UnderArmour just released MapMyRun and Endomondo.
I have been using SHealth for a while to track runs. It works, doesn't use too much battery, but I have a lot of issues with the way they present data. Like splits and pace are in miles per hour and there is no way to see your actual average pace while running (only an instantaneous pace, which jumps all over the place). Also the watch only displays one thing at a time, so elapsed time is on one screen and you have to move to another screen to see distance, which is annoying. Then you have to mentally do the math to figure out your average min/mile pace, which on a 20 mile run gets harder and harder to do as mental function starts to break down...
I just downloaded MapMyRun (never used it before) and I like the interface better. It allegedly connects to SHealth so I can store my history of workouts there. It also displays elapsed time and distance on the same screen in big bold numbers, which is nice. Also has an average pace if you swipe down. We will see, I'll try using it for a while.
S Health distance and heartrate are not accurate. Off by .5 for a 1.5 walk and heartrate 30 plus more that it measures manually.
Yes, i agree with rogerperk and it's impossible to change manualy the distance after the run, sad. I hope it'will be updated soon bacause in other ways, it's a good app.
I'm looking for an app one can program, that tells the user for how much time he should go on with an exercise, or rest, in sequence.
I've found out "Workout Timer", which does exactly this, but unfortunately it's bugged and if you configure a list of exercises, it gets mixed up, it doesn't mantain the order.
Many other gym apps just implement a programmable timer with rounds, but they don't feature text-to-speech to tell the exercises.
Anybody knows another app with the aforementioned features?
Hi.
Is there a way to configure a training plan more elaborated?
For example for training run I use like this:
6x 400meters. I need to start and when reach 400 meters it stops till I start again or reach a cool down time.
Is there a way to configure this?
Or does anyone know a app to do this?
Already tried runtastic, runkeeper and ghostrun without success.
Best regards
No, I've had a look too and can't find any way to customise, there seems to be nothing on the internet either regarding the huawei health app to help.
I'm on the half marathon training plan and I must say its pretty good and is working for me. There are a couple of interval workouts within the half training plan, threshold intervals (4 mins fast 2mins slow) and speed intervals (2 mins fast 1 min slow) that might work for you but they're not measured in distance only time and based on heart rate. You can start the training plan and then scroll forward on the watch to select the interval workout you want.
The runtastic/strava/runkeeper all want you to sign up to subscriptions to get their training plans.
Jacko
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The runtastic/strava/runkeeper all want you to sign up to subscriptions to get their training plans.
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And even then you can not use your watch autonomously to run on those training plans afaik like in Huawei Health where the watch app itself has builtin support for training plans.
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You can start the training plan and then scroll forward on the watch to select the interval workout you want.
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I can't find any way how to do that. Can you give me a hint?
It really pisses me off that you can not jump within the trainings of a training plan and your are always stuck to the fixed dates.
For instance the last update of Huawei Health killed my ongoing 10km plan and i have to start all over.
I think this would be beneficial for more than just the S3 but from reading, I am not alone in that the heart rate sensor on Samsung watches is way out of wack.
Is there a way to develop an app that takes the heart rate information from the watch and applies a constant plus or negative value to the read out? Ex watch reads 95, you have in the settings the value set to -20 and the app displays 75 (and keeps updating with that set value)?
The idea is simple but am not if it translates simple into development or if it's even possible.