personal health coach

[AiTenshi]

Hi

I think it will be again a feature wichtig will be not available in Germany? Like Fitbit Labs last autumn?

[alexthecat · Accepted solution]

@AiTenshi initially, the Public Preview is only available to adult Premium users with Android mobile devices in the US. Later, it will expand to other countries. I do not know exactly when it will come to Germany. 

[Bryan_frmchi]

Has anyone gotten a notification for it that's it's available yet? Nothing shows up on my app

[RiekoC]

Hello @Bryan_frmchi 

The Public Preview just started rolling out. If you have a Premium subscription, you should eventually get the option to try out the new Fitbit app. 

From our understanding, more Premium users will get the invite to try the Public Preview in the weeks ahead. If you don't see it right away, it will be a matter of time until you see the invite. 

[Bryan_frmchi]

Thank you for Info , much appreciated sir.

[GVlog]

I've been using Gemini Pro as a personal fitness, health, and wellness coach. On occasion, I've fed it screenshots of my Fitbit charts or provided it with Fitbit data to analyze and it's been insightful for me.

It helped me curate some of the foods in my diet so I can reverse my prediabetes. It also does a very good job of analyzing my meals to find sugar and carb "bombs" that might be lurking in the ingredients. 

I asked it for biomechanical tips to improve my workouts and it even made a simple but excellent recommendation for asymmetric training to improve my weaker leg.

You might want to try that route even if you have access only to the regular version of Gemini.

[RiekoC]

You're welcome, @Bryan_frmchi . 

I neglected to mention that you will also need a Fitbit device that has the Cardio Load feature to qualify for the Public Preview. 

[Bryan_frmchi]

Hey thanks for the extra info on that. I was wondering which devices are eligible. You'd think they would put a list out. I have a sense that is still going strong. Just playing the waiting game now.

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That's a really good idea actually, I will have to give that a spin too!

[alexthecat]

@Bryan_frmchi I have a Sense as well and it works just fine for the Public Preview.

[Sidkandan]

Hey @RiekoC, I'm an android user with Fitbit premium, enrolled in labs, with a pixel watch 4. Signed up for the health coach wait-list day 1. 

Anything else I can do to speed up the invite to the public preview? 

Very excited to test it! 🙂

[RiekoC]

Hello @Sidkandan 

You've done everything to get the Public Preview as soon as possible. There isn't anything more that I can suggest to expedite your access.

We understand that the initial roll-out is going slowly. Most likely, this is to make sure that there aren't any major issues for the first ones getting access. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the first users to get the Public Preview are content creators & reviewers. This allows them to have first hand experience and can post videos & reviews on the new app experience. 

We're looking forward to getting the Public Preview so that we can help guide users through the new app. 

[Bryan_frmchi]

Just got the notification about an hour ago,  pleasantly surprised so far. Only down side you need to switch back if you wanna log any workouts, food, water, weight. Luckily ita easy to switch between versions 

[LawnPaul]

The workouts started working today! Yesterday they kept failing

[Bryan_frmchi]

Good to know I have some recommend workouts from the app I'm going to do today. I wanna how it handles them

[LawnPaul]

@Bryan_frmchi it's very bare Bones right now. I have another thread that I have ongoing comments and recommendations specifically for exercise. 

For example, you can't log individual sets. Since you can't log into visual sets, there is no rest timer. Saving a completed workout is kind of clunky at the moment. 

If you use a Fitbit or pixel watch, complete your workout on that first to give it time to sync to the phone app so you can link the workouts together

[Ratul]

I did not get it either. 

[Bryan_frmchi]

@LawnPaul,  hey I've noticed all of that  as well.. hopefully with more time it gets better. I do find myself switching back to log everything. Then it shows up in the preview version