There are four major punches in boxing: jab, cross, hook and uppercut. So, the magnetometer is used to understand your orientation.” “On the hardware side, instead of just an accelerometer,” says Li, “Moov incorporates a magnetometer and a gyroscope. That said, most trackers don’t also sport the one-two punch of an magnetometer and gyroscope. Used to track speed, distance and steps more accurately, they’re kind of a necessary component for fitness trackers. How does that work, exactly? Well let’s start with the hardware.Īccelerometers aren’t necessarily uncommon in wearables. “In order to give you the guidance during your workout, Moov has to know exactly how you move… how your ankle or your wrist move in 3D space.” “It goes beyond just the steps, just a number - it’s actionable guidance,” says Li.

Simply put, it can provide you with a whole lot of information that can help you improve your form and avoid injury, particularly when paired with the AI coaching elements in the fitness programs. Along with relatively standard metrics like miles, pace and cadence, Moov Now measures impact and stride, power, elevation, and impact angles. Thanks to Moov’s accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope sensor combination, Moov Now is capable of not only making sense of its raw data in terms of speed and distance, but also how you move in 3D space.

It presents many of the same metrics as Fitbit and Jawbone wearables, but it’s designed to be an active wearable - one that’s meant for training and activity, rather than just keeping track of how many flights you climb on your way up to your office and back down again. That said, Moov Now isn’t necessarily for folks who are just looking for daily tracking. The daily tracking is helpful, and I really appreciate on the days when I can’t squeeze in a run - I still want to know how much I manage to get up and move around. It also tracks your sleeping habits and breaks sleeping time into a “restorative sleep” subcategory. Moov’s Daily component does something similar, tracking the amount of time you spent active and estimating how many calories you burned (both active and passive). There are plenty of wearables that are designed for daily use - the ones that track activity passively and report on steps, calories, distance, etc. “The Moov is one device that powers ten different programs with 200 different levels and variations,” says Moov co-founder Meng Li, “so the content itself is much richer and you get a lot of different ways to exercise within Moov, rather than just counting your steps.” It’s also far more advanced than the entry-level trackers that focus on steps or time spent idle. The size is deceptive, though, because the core is the mastermind behind some seriously powerful fitness programs in the corresponding Moov app (iOS and Android). It’s comfortable, light, and I hardly notice it’s there. The device itself is about the size of three quarters stacked on top of one another and sits inside of a lightweight silicon band that can be worn around your wrist or ankle. That said, the time I spent with Moov’s new Moov Now device provided me with clarity and flexibility in my workouts and daily activity that I haven’t experienced with other wearables. I write about wearables from time to time, and have dabbled in the tracking universe, but never felt the need to commit to any one device for personal use. Until recently, the only activity tracking I was really doing was through the Health app on my iPhone.

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