Stretching is key to staying healthy, even if your Fitbit won't recognize it
) show happy people doing yoga while wearing their device of choice. Consequently, almost all fitness trackers likely have a 'yoga' activity profile, even if they don’t have a dedicated stretching one.
So what is this activity profile recording? Your heart rate, breathing, skin temperature and stress levels while you do the activity – in other words, the same stuff it always records. A wrist-mounted device cannot record how limber your muscles are getting, how deep into a stretch you can go, or where your pain threshold is for a particular stretch. The only real advantage is that your device will dutifully note down in your calendar that, yes, you did do your stretching today.
By way of contrast, when you're running, cycling and even HIIT training, your tracker or watch can provide metrics that are useful. You might set yourself a time to beat, a distance to travel, or a certain amount of calories to burn, and the watch can measure your progress as you travel towards this goal. The really good ones will have virtual pacing software to keep you on target or record your route to help you find your way.
There’s none of this interaction for stretching: the markers for progress are the lengthening of your muscles, the speed of your recovery, or the feeling of relief you get after shaking out the knots, none of which can be measured by a worn computer. Even guided classes, whether you find them on YouTube or on a dedicated subscription fitness service, offer no meaningful interaction: all you can do is watch the instructor on-screen, and try to copy their movements as closely as you can.
No stretching classes have yet been forthcoming for the Guide’s interactive software, though, and I can see why: not only would it be difficult to program the Guide to detect the sheer variety of people’s different ranges of motion, but the device works by detecting a users' movement, so would not be able to monitor how long they're able to hold a pose for.
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