Tracking your workouts is simple: just pick your activity and press “Start.” But it also has less common ways to get your heart pumping, like hang gliding, hula-hooping, and windsurfing. It has conventional exercises, like running, hiking, and aerobics. Samsung Health tracks a ton of different workouts. But if your forget your watch on the charger, then you still have the option of recording it manually. Your Samsung smartwatch will automatically record how much shut-eye you get each night. You can set your ideal bedtime and when you want to wake up each morning within the app. Samsung Health has a huge database of foods, complete with extensive nutritional information. Then enter the name of each item in that meal. To log food, go to the calories menu and select a meal. When you set up the app, it will automatically estimate a calorie goal based on your gender, height, weight, and activity level, but you can set your calorie goals to any level. You can log your meals, snacks, coffee consumption, and water consumption into Samsung Health. To help you squeeze more active time into your day, you can set your Samsung smartwatch to remind you to move after it records you being inactive for a particular period of time. This can include walking, running, or weightlifting. Active TimeĪctive Time simply measures how often you engage in any physical activity. Once you have a baseline of your vital stats, you’re ready to set daily fitness goals. Unlike other vitals, this one must be inputted manually. Like the name implies, blood glucose is measurement of a kind of sugar, called glucose, in your blood. After the measurements are taken, you can also input your subjective sense of your well-being. This takes a lot longer to measure than other vitals, so only take it when you have a minute or two to spare. The Samsung Health stress vital measures the variations in between your heartbeats and your SpO2. If you have a Samsung Galaxy 7 or Samsung Galaxy 7 Edge smartphone, you can measure spO2 by placing your finger the back sensor. For people with minor respiratory conditions, an spO2 of 90% or higher is common. For healthy people, spO2 is usually around 94% or higher. SpO2 is a measure of your peripheral capillary oxygen saturation, which is used to estimate of the amount of oxygen in the blood. Or, for maximum accuracy, you can measure it with a chest strap. You can measure it with your Gear S2, Gear S3, or Gear Fit though their optical sensors. You can measure it on your phone thanks to the Samsung’s smartphone sensors. Samsung Health gives you three ways to measure your heart rate. With the help of your smartwatch and your phone, it can keep track of four vitals: heart rate, SpO2, stress levels, and blood glucose levels. Samsung Health has a robust collection of vital measurements. Users of the Samsung Gear S3 and Samsung Gear Fit 2 already know that the South Korean company makes some of the best wearables on the market.īut to really get the most out of Samsung’s devices, you should master Samsung’s Fitness app: Samsung Health (formerly called Samsung S Health.) Here’s how you can use it to measure your stats, track your workouts, and get healthier. Samsung is slowly realizing its ambition to be a premier smartwatch and fitness tracker brand.