When Under Armor released a new, free fitness app, Record, last January, which uses IBM Watson to send you personalized fitness tips, I was pretty excited about it.
Under Armor owns some of my favorite fitness-tracking apps, especially MyFitnessPal.
I use MyFitnessPal to track my diet. That means I use it to verify that half of the time I'm eating fewer calories than I'm burning.
MyFitnessPal syncs with all the wearable fitness devices on the market and passes the data to the Record service. Record takes all the info from millions of users and compares how you are doing to other people like you.
Before I started using Record, for few months, I carefully logged all of my food and workouts in MyFitnessPal to give Record plenty of data about me. You don't have to do that. I just wanted to.
For the past month I've been using Record daily to log stuff.
And now, I get a daily "insight" about myself from IBM Watson. Some of them are hilarious. Some of them are baffling. And a few of them are useful.
Take a look ...
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This was the the very first insight I got from Watson. I was mostly baffled by it. I didn't see a correlation between my workout duration and other women's workouts. And it felt like Watson was implying that maybe I was working out because I was depressed?
When I clicked on the "learn more" it just took me to two random studies about exercise and depression. It is true that exercise boosts my mood. Endorphins are great. That's why they call it "runners high."
This "tip" seemed a bit like a marketing pitch, but then again, I actually haven't used the app to meet other fitness people.
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