HeartWatch is one of the most powerful apps for iPhone and Apple Watch, allowing you to have a detailed overview of the heart rate data collected by your Apple Watch. The app was updated to version 4 today, bringing a whole new Apple Watch app, a redesigned iPhone app, and more.
The purpose of HeartWatch is to take all the data collected by your Apple Watch and offer different perspectives on the meaning of the data. HeartWatch comes from the same developer as the famous AutoSleep app. Therefore, many HeartWatch design elements should be similar if you are also an AutoSleep user.
On the iPhone, the HeartWatch app is divided into three main sections: wellness, activity and workouts. In the Wellness section, you will see data about your daily heart rate, your heart rate during sleep and your sedentary heart rate, among others.
The Activity section of the application offers a system of rings for your steps, your movement goal and the distance traveled. HeartWatch basically offers its own version of Apple Watch activity rings based on your past performance and more:
Have you ever used Apple rings on the Apple Watch to run after those 10,000 steps? We did it, but we quickly realized that the days are never the same, so we created new tracking rings that automatically learn from your lifestyle. HeartWatch Activity analyzes your heart rate data and understands your trends and habits, since days and goals don’t always have to be the same to create better health.
In the Workouts section of HeartWatch, you can view data about where you spend the most energy, time, or training load on your activities. For example, you can see what types of workouts you do most often, your workout heart rate, and much more. One of the most interesting things about HeartWatch 4 is called Internal Training Load:
Have you ever heard of the term “Load Management” with athletes? It is used by many professional sports organizations around the world to monitor fitness and fatigue, but is a great indicator for anyone who does a little or a lot of exercise.
A new metric added to HeartWatch is the internal training load, called load for short. The load represents your response to exercise, quantified by the intensity and duration of each workout you perform. You will notice that when you finish a HeartWatch workout now, a new question called RPE appears, which is a value between 0 (rest) and 10 (maximum effort). This means “Perceived effort rate”, which, in simple terms, asks how hard the session was. There is no right or wrong, it’s unique for you, because on some training days you feel good and others don’t.
This validated formula uses the RPE x duration (minutes) score to give you the load, so a 30-minute run with an RPE of 2 would be 60 load units. Refer to the RPE table below which provides guidance on the values. We recommend that you use HeartWatch for all of your workouts so that you can assign an EPR and get an exact load, using a third-party training app, you will apply a model to estimate the load.
Meanwhile, the Apple Watch app for HeartWatch offers pop-up heart rate alerts, a multitude of complications for your watch face, the ability to record notes, and much more.
HeartWatch offers an abundance of data which aims to provide a new overview of all your Apple Watch data. It takes all the data that your Apple Watch collects and explains it in a way that you can understand. You can dive deep into the app for more advanced data, or stick to the surface to get a broader view of your well-being.
The beauty of the tile interface makes the data easy to view while allowing you to dive deeper when needed.
HeartWatch 4 is a free upgrade for existing users of the app and new users can download it from the App Store now for $ 3.99. You can learn more about the app and its multitude of use cases here.
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