Moov Now - personal trainer in a cool tracker

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Moov Now is a fitness tracker and personal trainer for the shy, lazy and busy. Helps achieve the desired results in a wide variety of workouts.

Fitness tracker Moow Now won the award for Best Gadget in the Sports and Fitness category in 2015. Let's figure out why the bracelet was recognized and how it will help you get off the couch and play sports.

Appearance

The Moow Now fitness tracker is a small round box with an LED indicator.

This box itself is inserted into a rubber strap. The package comes with two strap sizes so that the tracker can be worn on your hand or ankle.

It is a very lightweight and comfortable design that you quickly fail to notice with constant use. A big plus: during training, the tracker strap fits snugly to the arm or leg, never touches or poses a risk of injury.

The fitness tracker is powered by a battery, the charge of which should be enough for six months.

How the tracker works

Moov Now has several modes:

• fixing activity during the day;
• measurement of heart rate, distance, number of calories, exercise time in free mode;
• ready-made programs for beginners that help achieve different goals.

It is a waterproof tracker so you can use it for your pool workout.

All measurements and graphs are displayed in an app available for iOS and Android. Theoretically, you can conduct training, leaving your smartphone at home, and then synchronize all the data and see how the lesson went.

But apart from swimming, then the rest of the classes are best done in conjunction with a smartphone in order to use the virtual trainer to the fullest.

Workouts from Moov Now

Training programs are designed for different levels of training and for different purposes, for a start - just right. This is a good solution for shy people who, for a thousand reasons, do not want to go to the gym and work out with a trainer. The programs will also help the eternally busy people: at least 10 minutes a day can be found, despite the overload. Well, the lazy ones will be spurred on by the coach.

Moov Now is used for different types of workouts:

• run;
• walking;
• bike;
• swimming;
• boxing;
• 10 minute intense workout.

What does the tracker count during these sessions? Yes all. The sensors record movements in 3D, that is, the training report will show in detail what you did, with what speed and strength, so that the analysis will be complete.

To jog, turn on the program and listen to the directions from your audio coach. To do a boxing workout, repeat the movements shown in the app (but for boxing you need a second tracker to record the intensity of the movements of both hands).

Activity capture

During the day, the tracker collects statistics on whether you were active enough. The minimum rate is 30 minutes of activity per day.

I liked the graph of load distribution by hours during the day. It is noticeable that if you just slightly add a step on the way from work, then these few minutes will also add an active position, which is already great. You can immediately see that it is worth setting a few reminders and warm up in the office a couple of times.

As a bonus, the tracker can track the amount and quality of sleep.

Impressions of working with a trainer

There is always a problem with applications that are supposed to develop training programs: do they work effectively enough, do they help you to exercise? Or does a smart program only make the gadget more expensive, but does not in any way affect the quantity and quality of classes?

With Moov Now, it's fair to say that the built-in trainer is awesome. He really gives the necessary clues and helps to correct the movement.

One of the unsolvable problems of individual training is constant motivation. The time comes, we get used to literally pull ourselves out of the apartment for a run, get off the couch, drag ourselves from work not home, but into the pool.

But when you need to master one more circle, and there is no strength, and so, thoughts like "Well, today in any way, come on tomorrow" or "Okay, I'm tired, I will do less."

It is also very difficult to fight this inner voice. And here, instead of “I'll finish early today,” the coaching message “One and a half kilometers left, increase your speed” sounds in my head. It seems that the mechanical voice of artificial intelligence can do nothing, but it makes you take another step.

disadvantages

For me, only the appearance turned out to be a minus. Design is subjective. Moov Now is lightweight, compact. It can be worn on both ankle and wrist and is waterproof. And he didn't even try to unbutton. But he looks, in my opinion, so-so.

In addition, if you wear it constantly (how else?), The rubber holes become clogged with dust, you have to clean the strap and the holder for the tracker. But this is the case when such little things can be forgiven.