Right now, Fitbit simply tags that the functionality is coming soon – and you’ll need a Premium subscription to get those scores. The data captured also sound similar to those used for daily stress management scores (more on that below). It’s not a groundbreaking feature (the likes of Garmin and Whoop offer something similar) and it’s not a feature that’s ready to use, either. It’s doing that through new Daily Readiness Scores, which look at exercise data, heart rate variability measurements and sleep to better assess your readiness for activity. Like all of Fitbit’s sports modes though, it’s really about how this exercise time contributes to achieving your daily target exercise goals, instead of wanting you to really drill into the data.įitbit now wants to explore the realms of recovery and offer insights to better inform you when to train and when to spend time resting up. In the pool, it fared better and accurately measured a 1500m swim.

In a more extreme marathon test, the Charge 5 reported 38km rather than the full 42km, and it also didn’t deliver mapping data in the app post-run – though the heart rate monitoring largely matched up with a chest strap monitor, so while there are still niggles, there are positives here too. Running metrics such as average pace then clocked us going much faster or slower than we were.

On shorter runs, the GPS came up short against a Garmin running watch. But it was a bit of a mixed bag in our outdoor running tests, in terms of accuracy. It’s when Fitbit looks to go beyond those tracking staples that it still comes a little unstuck.įitbit added built-in GPS to the Charge 4 and the feature remains on the latest edition, letting you track any of the outdoor activities covered in the 20 exercise modes available on the Charge 5. If you care about counting steps, monitoring your heart rate continuously or receiving useful and reliable sleep tracking data and insights, that’s what you’ll get from the Charge 5. Fitness tracking is one of Fitbit’s strengths.

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