WIRED Onboard GPS. Gorgeous face. Easy to wear. Decent battery life. Syncs to your important fitness apps. Durable. TIRED Still no notifications. No music streaming support. PAI is a weird and probably inadequate fitness metric.
Onboard GPS. Gorgeous face. Easy to wear. Decent battery life. Syncs to your important fitness apps. Durable. Automatic activity tracking works well. Advanced, if unreliable, training metrics.Still no notifications. No music streaming support. PAI is a weird and probably inadequate fitness metric. Beautiful watch faces are power-intensive.change their haircut or style of jeans, but you’ll still be able to recognize them.
Zepp Health uses PAI based on the research of Ulrik Wisløff, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. It uses your age, sex, resting heart rate, and past seven days of heart rate data to calculate your PAI, but it’s really just a metric that’s similar to Amazon’s Activity Points. As you do activities that increase your heart rate, you accumulate PAI.
I’m fit, but not exceptionally so. I blew through the PAI measurement, racking up over 250 PAI points a day by biking my kids to school, running 3 to 4 miles a day, and absentmindedly walking around drinking Go-Gurts in my kitchen. In fairness to PAI, not only did the watch automatically track my cycling workouts, but it also aggregated them. I discovered that as I shuttle everyone around, I spend more than an hour on a bike each day.
You can change your goals, like the number of steps or hours of sleep you want to hit, but you can’t change your PAI. As lovely as it feels to wake up every morning and be told that I am as fit as a 20-year-old , it’s not really a great incentive for improvement. The other metrics that Zepp Health OS measures are steps, sleep, heart rate, and activities. You can scroll through a ton of workouts, including everything from Zumba to playing board games to your standard cycling, walking, and trail running . It has onboard GPS, which is startling in a fitness tracker at this price point, and it was pretty accurate—the measurements were consistent with myYou can also sync your data with WeChat, Health, Strava, Amazon Alexa, and the Relive app.