I am a person who is borderline for monitoring my health and fitness data. I use a smart scale, a calorie- and nutrient-tracking app, smart workout equipment, and my beloved Apple Watch, which is to make a picture of my overall material welfare that is as complete as possible. Only once I shut down my Apple Watch, when I am dressing to go somewhere good and still, it hurts me deeply. Just imagine the heart rate and calorie-collision data, when I move around in my fancy dress, I am missing. it’s sick.
All these apps and devices work in concerts to monitor my every heartbeat and footbeat, but there is a remarkable exception. I usually I am against connecting my Apple Watch with apps that track my workouts, as it causes a headache in the past, which has a headache by double-importing data in my food-tracking app and daily apple health summary-it is a large extent and a largely active minute to make a largely active minute. Today, reluctantly, I connected my apple watch to my peloton bike, hoping that it would cause the same problems – but it impressed me. Now, I am convinced in connecting these two devices. I will tell you why, how to do this.
How to link your apple watch and peloton device
On your peloton app, select your profile (To the right of the menu below the home screen), then find the hamburger menu on the top right of your profile screen. Choosing will bring you to a page More And there, under Add onyou will find Apple Watch,
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Tap, when indicated, provide permissions in Apple Health to installAnd you will see three options: Connect to health app, Share your locationAnd Track your movementFor our purposes, with bikes and other home workout equipment, you will just togle on that first one, but if you want your outdoor runs to be tracked privately, then togle on the other, and if you want indoor runs and walks to be recorded, then also hit the third.
From there, I had just opened the watch app on my phone, which was included in the apps installed on the device. I scrolled under the Watch app, selected peloton From the list under Installed on apple watchAnd on the togle Show app on Apple Watch,
Why do I enjoy the link between Apple Watch and Peloton
After that, I climbed on my stable bike and started a workout. I opened the workout app on my watch and selected the “indoor cycle”, then opened the Peloton app on the watch. This showed me a vacant screen, in which I was asked to start a workout on the bike with a few words, so I did. Suddenly, the watch screen changed and my heart started showing. The more interesting thing is that a small heart-vet tracker appeared on the upper left on my peloton touch screen, showing a power bar of what the “zone” I was depending on my heart rate. (My Peloton “Power Zone” has been optimized at my fitness level because I have taken the FTP test introduced through the bike, which you should also do.)
There is already a lot of information available on the screen, such as rhythm, resistance and output, but I did not find it distracting. It was really very helpful in which “zone” I was in. When the class is over, I opened Transit App on bike. Transit There is a virtual game offered by Peloton that I love and play every day, so I was interested to see if the heart rate monitoring would pop up on the screen during one level. Did this!
After my five -minute coldness Transit The level is over, I reopened the workout app on the watch, which I always do, as I always do. For my surprise, the Peloton app actually eliminates it; The Peloton app stopped tracking my indoor bicycle session as soon as the workout app. This caused me to panic because I was afraid that the workouts of my apple would not be reflected in daily summary or activity rings, but when I opened it on my phone, they were: under two “indoor bicycle” workout sessions. Where they are usually the green apple workout logo next to them, they had a peloton logo. They were track and classified like an indoor cycle session, which I used to monitor using my watch normally. They counted my activity rings and all steps and exercise parts.
I opened my nutrition-tracking app to ensure that the burnt calorie was not double-entry. They were not! Peloton app is successful where other apps have failed: it does not track your movement on a firm disturbance in various apps and devices.
Finally, I opened the Peloton app to see the summary of my workouts. They usually incorporate your burnt calorie and output estimates, as well as which muscles you worked and how long you were on it, but now, he included more detailed breakdowns how much time I spent in each heart rate area and provided more information on my total output.
What do you think so far?
What is the benefit of adding these devices?
As I said, the Peloton app tracked the same things that will track on its own using my Apple Watch Workout Function: My heart rate, my burnt calorie and my workout duration. So, you can be surprised, what does it mean to connect with by looking at the bike (or peloton trade or cry)?
There are some benefits that are clear here. First, it was convenient to see my heart rate and power zone reflected on the peloton screen. I did not have to keep an eye on my wrist to see my heart rate as I usually do; I can focus on the screen, which is important for safety, and in real time gives me speed to ensure that I was staying in the zone in which I wanted to be.
Second, adding the Apple Watch and Peloton device enables you to see something that you call a “strong score”. It is a personal metric that helps you understand and imagine how hard you have worked during class or ride, and it is based on a combination of your heart rate and you have spent how much time in each of the power zones. ” (The lower areas coincide with low heart rate and the higher areas match with a high.)
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Can be warned: You have to togue separately on a strong score, which I did not know for the first time, so there is not one in my 10 minute ride, but my Transit Levels. It is easy to do this: from that More Menu in your profile, hit setting And scroll in all ways to the bottom. Tagge Track and display strong score And then choose whether the in-class participants can see it. I was angry that the only attempt I received for the day was 2.2 on my five -minute Coldown 2.2, but it only inspires me, well, tries for a higher tomorrow.
Overall, there is no negative aspect to add your Apple Watch and Peloton device, which is not always true when talking about other fitness apps. In fact, you can get even more comprehensive workout data than doing it and I think it is great.
