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Fitbit Launches New Software Features to Enhance Top Selling Products
Fitbit, the leader in the connected health and fitness market, today announced new features to platform users globally that make exercise tracking smarter and easier than ever.
Fitbit introduces SmartTrack™ automatic exercise recognition and enhancements to PurePulse™ heart rate tracking to Fitbit Charge HR™ and Fitbit Surge™, the #1 selling fitness tracker and wearable[1], and GPS watch[2] in the U.S. respectively.
Fitbit launches Exercise Goals within the free Fitbit app to help users find the routine that is right for them, and serve as daily motivation to hit their personalized goals.
"At Fitbit we're always working on innovative features that are easy to use and make tracking health and fitness a fun, motivational experience," said Tim Roberts, VP of Interactive at Fitbit. "Our users find exercise in all parts of their day, including activities like short walks with the dog or a bike commute to work. These new features allow them to focus on their exercise, giving them credit for their most active moments and letting the technology do the work to automatically track progress toward their fitness goals."
Record Workouts Automatically with SmartTrack
SmartTrack provides a smarter, easier way to track workouts and see how efforts accumulate to reaching fitness goals. SmartTrack automatically recognizes select exercises and records them in the Fitbit app:
Automatic exercise recognition – SmartTrack automatically recognizes continuous movement when wearing Fitbit Charge HR or Fitbit Surge. It identifies and records the type of activity in the Fitbit app along with an exercise summary, including duration, calories burned and heart rate stats. SmartTrack is capable of identifying a wide variety of activities, including elliptical, outdoor biking, running, walking, and general categories of aerobic workouts, (i.e., Zumba, cardio-kickboxing and other dance classes) and sports (i.e., tennis, basketball and soccer).
Personalized settings – Because everyone's definition of exercise is different, users can select the types of activities they want recognized as exercise and adjust how long they must be moving before an activity is recorded in the Fitbit app.
Enhanced Real-Time Heart Rate Tracking During Workouts
Fitbit's proprietary PurePulse heart rate technology has been updated to provide users with an even better heart rate tracking experience during and after high-intensity workouts like boot camp and Zumba. The update is activated when using Exercise Mode on Fitbit Charge HR and multi-sport modes on Fitbit Surge.
Stay Motivated with Weekly Exercise Goals
The American Heart Association[3] and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[4] recommend an average of 30 minutes of exercise each day, five days per week to improve health.
Available for free to all Fitbit device and app users, exercise goals are tracked on a daily basis with a weekly goal set for the number of days they plan to exercise. Exercise goals encourage people to embrace a more consistent workout routine in order to achieve their fitness goals. Progress toward goals is displayed within the Fitbit app.
To receive credit toward an exercise goal, Fitbit device users can:
Fitbit Charge HR and Fitbit Surge: Use SmartTrack or track an activity using Exercise Mode, multi-sport modes or MobileRun; or log an exercise in the Fitbit app.
Fitbit Charge: Track an activity using Exercise Mode, MobileRun, or log an exercise in the Fitbit app.
Fitbit Flex, Fitbit One, Fitbit Zip: Track an activity using MobileRun or log an exercise in the Fit