Google Fit gets health-centric YouTube video feed

As part of Google's "Stay Fit #WithMe" campaign, Google Fit is making it easier to find health-related videos on its app. It will integrate a YouTube video feed with clips from various creators, focusing on home workouts, mental wellness advice, and meditation videos as well as eating and drinking healthy with soy or cacao drinks.. 

Google aims to encourage its users to meet or exceeded the World Health Organization's and the American Heart Association's minimum recommendations for weekly physical activity, which is more important now as people's mobility remains limited because of COVID-19. The video carousel will roll out to all users this week. There might be regional differences with what kinds of videos are available, but as Android Police notes, they only see one playlist.

Google Fit officially rolls out Dark Mode and new charts for sleep tracking new changes

Google Fit has officially launched a couple of features that have been available for some users. Dark Mode is now fully rolled out to users. This can be enabled/disabled with a toggle in the app’s settings menu. There are also new charts for sleep tracking integrations. The app used to let you pull sleep data from third-party apps before. But now the information is presented in a way that will help you better understand your patterns and trends. So, if you choose to act on it, you can. You can also edit or add sleep history manually if you think it was incorrectly entered. And now iOS users will be able to see the route they ran/walked/biked/exercised as tracked by wearable devices or other apps/services as well as a summary of the workout.

Source: Android Police

TomTom Sports lets you sync your Google Fit and Apple Health data

TomTom wants to centralize your fitness data into its Sports app. The app now lets you sync with Google Fit and Apple Health so you can track your fitness data, trends, insights, and daily summaries, even without your TomTom Sports wearable on you. By syncing with the two platforms, it means your data won’t be duplicated. When you opt into syncing your Google Fit and Apple Health data, you’ll get the prompt once and then the app will import the information on a daily basis for you.

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Google Fit introduces new nutrition tracking and exercise features

Google Fit is looking to become a more holistic approach to health tracking with its new features. The app now works with more external apps and introduces new workout and exercise tracking features to Android Wear devices. The new nutrition and sleep apps it works with include MyFitnessPal, Fatsecret, Lifesum, and LoseIt. It can also now track your sleep with Sleep as Android, Xiaomi Mi Band and Mi Bad 1S, Basis Peak, and Sony Smartband 2.

You can now also see real-time stats for your runs, walks, and rides on your phone. Google Fit can record your speed, pace, route, elevation, among others. Strength training tracking has also been added to Android Wear. It can monitor your push-ups, sit-ups, and squats and record these all in the Fit app.

Source: Android Official Blog | Via: Mashable