from your Galaxy Watch 6 to the health application

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 was launched last year and in the analysis carried out in EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre it was very clear that it is one of the best smartwatches available on the Spanish market. In addition to the great value that it offers in its general aspects, it presents certain details that should not be overlooked by any user who uses it for their daily walks, or those who wish to measure their performance in different sporting practices.

Samsung’s health app, known as Samsung Health, and the Galaxy Watch 6 They do a great job together. to offer the athlete or everyday person a wide variety of advanced measurements to perform even in-depth analysis.

Among all this health data such as kilometers and steps taken, calorie consumption, average heart rate or different running time measurements, The Galaxy Watch 6 is able to evaluate the person’s fingerprint. That is, it provides a series of advanced measurements to know if the stride is really correct when running and if there is no type of imbalance both in asymmetry and in contact or flight time.

With these advanced measurements in hand, you can correct your footprint and be aware of your running or even walk. Which, above all, improves physical exercise and prevents possible future injury.

There Running exerts great friction between the different muscles and bones that make up the legs, and walking incorrectly can lead to injury. To understand it better, it’s like driving a vehicle with a flat tire; The car will continue to move, but it will do so by generating a total imbalance in its displacement and producing greater wear on the rubber of the rest of the tires.

The same thing happens in the body, and the stride determines the overall support posture of the foot or how pressure is exerted on the ground; and it directly influences all the structures that precede it like the knees, hips, pelvis and more.

Of course, to carry out an in-depth analysis of the fingerprint It is always recommended to do a biomechanical analysisbut the advanced measurements provided by Samsung Health, after sports practice, can help you make this decision and thus know in detail how to improve your stride to avoid injuries and even recommend better shoes.

Advanced running metrics

These are the measures linked to attendance that the Galaxy Watch 6 collects in the sports practices practiced:

• Asymmetry: difference in the length of time each foot is in contact with the ground.
• Contact time: the time during which the foot is in contact with the ground and exerts a force greater than that necessary to support the weight of the person.
• Flight time: the time during which the feet are in the air or touching the ground, but exerting less force than necessary to support the person’s weight.
• Regularity: coherence of body movements.
• Vertical: up and down movement of the person’s center of gravity.
• Rigidity: the vertical rigidity of the body when running.

The attached graphs are from an 8.35km running workout in which you can perfectly see the amount of data collected and As in my case there is room for improvement for the flight timealthough you should always remember that each runner has their own way of running.

In preparation for the Zurich Rock´n´Roll Running Series Madrid at the end of this month, and to improve performance on the 10 km race, one of the tips in my case would be to raise the knee more in order to increase the flight time (the cadence or the total number of steps per minute ) , which would improve aerodynamics during the race, although here, as mentioned, it is appropriate to review the case of each person and their constitution to evaluate a possible modification during the race, since each person does it differently.

Best of all, these attendance performance charts are available in three ways. One of them is that of recording sports practice. and the second when he finished with the complete summary with all the data from the watch.

At the start of a race, passing through the different screens which collect all kinds of data in real time, one of the last shows the asymmetry to reflect left and right (this can be seen in one of the photographs) with a score, in this case a zero in both.

When you finish practicing in the exercise summary displayed by the Galaxy Watch 6, the six data mentioned above appear each with its score in Samsung Health. If you click on the card that shows the six measures, you access a graph that shows each of the steps. For example, in Flight Time you can see the flight height for each point on the graph.

In short, and although the Galaxy Watch 6 is not the only one to offer this type of advanced metrics, it is another of the values ​​that it brings to add a very particular general experiencewhether for sports or simply if you want to measure your health with the walks you take in the neighborhood.