u/thunderpuppet

It's very flawed. I'm testing it out as a return to running from injury so it has proposed a foundational 5km interval plan by ramping up intervals and checks in on me with past injuries and niggles, which is a sound strategy and I like the approach to keep me engaged and it has it tailored based on my availability and days I can do the workouts etc.

It ends there though. Paired with the app, it needs A LOT of work. I don't see why they thought having to prod a clanker to get meaningful statistics is a good thing other than showing off their LLM prowess?

I use a Garmin for the runs which in itself has inherent flaws because Garmin in their wisdom isn't letting pace splits to import over so coach is working with less data but still way more rich data than my Fitbit air can produce.

I feel I have to spend a good 10 minutes post run to prod with coach clanker to get it to look properly at the data to summarise the run which could be done better with charts and being able to rate the exercise akin to Garmin with a score, not a deep and meaningful over my pocket friend.

I'm in Australia so after the three months is up it will be $15 a month to continue which at this point I'm pretty unlikely to do. Don't get me wrong I'm loving the Fitbit air as a daily wear and what metrics it produces but right now it ends there. I'd be better off once it costs money just to load up my own plans on the Garmin and keep the Google Health space clanker free.

New owner of a Fitbit air for about a week (3rd Fitbit overall including the OG clip). I also run with a Garmin.

How useful is the cardio load metric? I have health connect doing it's thing bringing over my runs but also the air is auto detecting.

Once health connect has done it's thing and brings my run over it has a good amount of detail but no cardio load score.

Soon after, it gets wiped and replaced by the airs own auto detect activity rendering health connect pointless however it does bring in a cardio load score as part of its metrics.

What are people doing here? Turn off auto detect or take the Fitbit data as "better" over an actual GPS watch. For me it was an interval workout part of a coach plan and it recognised the splits and all, only to replace it with the airs basic data.