How to Get Started with Fitbit Premium
The Fitbit Premium is one of several fitness memberships you can sign up for, but unlike most, it is designed to complement the Fitbit device you already own.
Fitbit's paid service gives you deeper insights than its free version, plus on-demand workouts, personal instruction and more, but is it really worth $ 10 a month? We are putting it through our paces to find and find out.
Fitbit is currently doing a 90-day free trial of Fitbit Premium, giving you plenty of time to find out if this is the right service for you. Here's what you can expect when you sign up.
Workouts and Guided Programs
You don't get live, peloton-style classes with Fitbit Premium, but you get a selection of on-demand videos that you can work on during your vacation, which you can find by duration, difficulty, muscle group and more Can filter.
There are two main sections within the Fitbit app: simple on-demand workout videos and a more carefully planned collection of activities called guided programs.
Go to the Workout section and you will see videos covering running, walking, meditation, stretching, special muscle zones, core strength, exercise for kids, yoga and even recipes. There is not a vast amount of material here, but the videos are simple and simple - you see an example of what to do, and then you have to follow it.
The Guided Programs section of the Fitbit app takes you on a more precise sequential journey toward an individual goal - eating less sugar, sleeping better, improving your strength and more.
These can add different workout videos together and stay on the app for the last days. Will inspire you to take a new session. Although the core video content is the same, it is a bit more like a personal trainer.
The confusing thing is that Fitbit runs Fitbit Premium with Fitbit Premium with Coach. A slightly cheaper subscription service created by the acquisition in 2015. As far as we can exclude, the Fitbit Premium membership gives you access to the Fitbit Coach, and they are split into two.
Workouts and Guided Programs - There are some crossovers, but there is also some difference in content, which is strange. It seems that Fitbit is still not found to merge these two services together (for example, Fitbit Coach remains a separate mobile app).
For example, we were able to introduce a guided program in Fitbit Coach (which is also available on the web), which was then not viewable in the premium section of the main Fitbit app.
You can also leave feedback after workouts on how you found them in terms of toughness, but this only affects the data logged in your Fitbit status and the difficulty of the exercises you suggested.
More detailed statistics and insights
Fitbit offers a lot of metrics and feedback without a subscription, but paying for a Fitbit Premium subscription takes it to the next level.
The first is a more detailed breakdown of your sleep score, which takes into account the heart rate during sleep, if you're wearing your Fitbit at night, and gives you more data about each sleep stage: sleeping, Waking up, deep sleep, light sleep, and seeing how restless your sleep is.
You will find more general information and tips around sleep in the Fitbit app if you are a premium subscriber, for example, or if you have advice on how your sleep patterns have changed over the past month. This is not a big jump from what you get with Fitbit's free sleep-tracking feature, but it goes into greater depth.
Then there is the Health Metrics Dashboard, which provides more advanced metrics including your breath rate, your resting heart rate, your heart rate variability, changes in your skin temperature and your blood oxygen saturation level. Each reading means what it can mean with changes over time, just like the rest of the data associated with your Fitbit account.
A premium membership also gives you a wellness report, which gathers all your health and fitness data into a compact document.
It is actually intended to be shared with your doctor and other health professionals, so they can see your level of fitness at a glance, but it is also useful for looking back at yourself. This is the kind of data you see in the app with larger, more engaging analytics.
Before you can generate a wellness report, you have to use the Fitbit app and the associated Fitbit device for at least 30 days, which gives you some idea of how deep and wide it is. The report is created in PDF format, so you can easily print it or email it to whoever needs it.
Fitbit's paid service gives you deeper insights than its free version, plus on-demand workouts, personal instruction and more, but is it really worth $ 10 a month? We are putting it through our paces to find and find out.
Fitbit is currently doing a 90-day free trial of Fitbit Premium, giving you plenty of time to find out if this is the right service for you. Here's what you can expect when you sign up.
Workouts and Guided Programs
You don't get live, peloton-style classes with Fitbit Premium, but you get a selection of on-demand videos that you can work on during your vacation, which you can find by duration, difficulty, muscle group and more Can filter.
There are two main sections within the Fitbit app: simple on-demand workout videos and a more carefully planned collection of activities called guided programs.
Go to the Workout section and you will see videos covering running, walking, meditation, stretching, special muscle zones, core strength, exercise for kids, yoga and even recipes. There is not a vast amount of material here, but the videos are simple and simple - you see an example of what to do, and then you have to follow it.
The Guided Programs section of the Fitbit app takes you on a more precise sequential journey toward an individual goal - eating less sugar, sleeping better, improving your strength and more.
These can add different workout videos together and stay on the app for the last days. Will inspire you to take a new session. Although the core video content is the same, it is a bit more like a personal trainer.
The confusing thing is that Fitbit runs Fitbit Premium with Fitbit Premium with Coach. A slightly cheaper subscription service created by the acquisition in 2015. As far as we can exclude, the Fitbit Premium membership gives you access to the Fitbit Coach, and they are split into two.
Workouts and Guided Programs - There are some crossovers, but there is also some difference in content, which is strange. It seems that Fitbit is still not found to merge these two services together (for example, Fitbit Coach remains a separate mobile app).
For example, we were able to introduce a guided program in Fitbit Coach (which is also available on the web), which was then not viewable in the premium section of the main Fitbit app.
You can also leave feedback after workouts on how you found them in terms of toughness, but this only affects the data logged in your Fitbit status and the difficulty of the exercises you suggested.
More detailed statistics and insights
Fitbit offers a lot of metrics and feedback without a subscription, but paying for a Fitbit Premium subscription takes it to the next level.
The first is a more detailed breakdown of your sleep score, which takes into account the heart rate during sleep, if you're wearing your Fitbit at night, and gives you more data about each sleep stage: sleeping, Waking up, deep sleep, light sleep, and seeing how restless your sleep is.
You will find more general information and tips around sleep in the Fitbit app if you are a premium subscriber, for example, or if you have advice on how your sleep patterns have changed over the past month. This is not a big jump from what you get with Fitbit's free sleep-tracking feature, but it goes into greater depth.
Then there is the Health Metrics Dashboard, which provides more advanced metrics including your breath rate, your resting heart rate, your heart rate variability, changes in your skin temperature and your blood oxygen saturation level. Each reading means what it can mean with changes over time, just like the rest of the data associated with your Fitbit account.
A premium membership also gives you a wellness report, which gathers all your health and fitness data into a compact document.
It is actually intended to be shared with your doctor and other health professionals, so they can see your level of fitness at a glance, but it is also useful for looking back at yourself. This is the kind of data you see in the app with larger, more engaging analytics.
Before you can generate a wellness report, you have to use the Fitbit app and the associated Fitbit device for at least 30 days, which gives you some idea of how deep and wide it is. The report is created in PDF format, so you can easily print it or email it to whoever needs it.
Other Features and Notes
Having a Fitbit device is essential to the Fitbit Premium experience - it won't matter much to sign up without one for the service - but no Fitbit will be wearable.
Having a Fitbit device is essential to the Fitbit Premium experience - it won't matter much to sign up without one for the service - but no Fitbit will be wearable.
