| T3 online magazine :
Satnav company Garmin has launched a fitness application for iPhone and Android which will track your progress while you're out running or cycling
The company moves into the app game after building a reputation for building fitness apps brimming with functionality, although the smartphone software costs considerably less at just 69p on both platforms.
The app, which joins the likes of Nike+, Adidas miCoach and the excellent Endomondo, will track your time, distance, speed, pace, calories and also map your route using GPS. The app is also compatible with the Garmin Fit heart monitor.
Once you've completed your exercise, you can add notes and then upload it to the Garmin Connect service, which will be familiar to those who have used the company's sports watches.
Androidcommunity.com : Garmin has announced today that it has its very first fitness app for Android users is on the Android Market right now. The app is called Garmin Fit and it is used to turn the Android smartphone into a training device for athletes. The app offers all sorts of metrics about your workouts that you can save and upload to your computer for tracking over time using Garmin Connect.
The app can track metrics for your workout like speed, distance traveled, route traveled, and calories burned. On Android, devices that are ANT+ enabled the app will interface with fitness sensors. The Garmin ANT+ sensor is for the iPhone only. If you have a bunch of music on your Android device, the Garmin Fit app will let you access those tunes without closing the Fit app.
Once you are done walking or running the app will ask you to name the activity and enter more details about the weather and such
bikerumor.com : Garmin has announced today that it has its very first fitness app for Android users is on the Android Market right now. The app is called Garmin Fit and it is used to turn the Android smartphone into a training device for athletes. The app offers all sorts of metrics about your workouts that you can save and upload to your computer for tracking over time using Garmin Connect
Garmin has just announced their new Garmin Fit app for the iPhone and Android-based smartphones.
The app is just 99¢ on iTunes and tracks metrics like speed, pace, distance, time and (estimated) calories all on its own. Add their ANT+ dongle and it’ll capture data from their heart rate monitors and speed/cadence sensors. It maps and can automatically upload your ride data to their Garmin Connect.
“Garmin Fit is the ideal solution for users who are new to the fitness tracking landscape and for those looking to stay totally connected,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales. “To be able to utilize Garmin’s powerful fitness accessories with the same device that plays music, makes calls and uploads workouts automatically to share and analyze, makes Garmin Fit a must have app.”
Yep, you can play your music and take a call while the app is doing its business, even text message. It should work even stuffed in a jersey pocket or hydration pack if you’re not keen on sticking a $300 iDevice to your handlebar. That last bit is why it may not totally kill the market for their dedicated (waterproof, durable, compact) GPS cycling computers. That, and there’s no mention of Power Measurement at present. Hopefully that’s just an update away.
The app will show the last 30 days of activity from your Garmin Connect account.
Following completion of the workout, you can name it and it’ll upload. This last bit is perhaps the true killer app: there’s no longer a need for you to hook anything up to your computer or download data or a program. Everything should just auto-upload to Garmin’s “cloud”.
Data on each bout of exercise is available for quick review.
Now there will be one more reason to be buried in your own little iWorld at the coffee shop post ride.
Oh, and if you’re into running, it’ll work with their Foot Pod to track steps and such |