How to set up Cardio Fitness Levels with your Apple Watch and iPhone

(Pocket-lint) - Apple has a fittingness diagnostic that allows Apple Watch users to way their cardio fittingness levels done VO2 max measurements. 

Before the merchandise of watchOS 7.2, the Apple Watch could estimation higher levels of VO2 max, but lone outdoor walks, runs, oregon hikes.

Assuming your smartwatch is moving watchOS 7.2 oregon later, Apple Watch tin present find a user's cardio fittingness arsenic they locomotion passim the time though, truthful they don't request to intensely workout for it instrumentality and analyse their cardio fittingness level.

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What is VO2 Max?

VO2 max, oregon maximal oxygen uptake, is the measurement of the maximum magnitude of oxygen a idiosyncratic tin usage during aggravated exercise. It's fundamentally a measurement utilized to find the endurance of a idiosyncratic anterior to oregon during the people of training, and it tin beryllium improved done carnal activity.

Apple notifies Apple Watch users' erstwhile their cardio fittingness levels are either high, supra average, beneath average, oregon debased (in examination to different radical successful their aforesaid age/sex group). But first, the "Cardio Fitness Level" diagnostic needs to beryllium acceptable up successful the Apple Health app connected iPhone.

How to setup Cardio Fitness Level connected Apple Watch

Here's however to setup the Cardio Fitness Level diagnostic connected Apple Watch:

1. Open the Health app connected your iPhone.
2. Tap the Browse tab at the bottom.
3. Search for Cardio Fitness in the hunt barroom astatine the top.
4. Scroll down to Cardio Fitness Levels.
5. Tap connected Set Up.
6. Confirm wellness data that mightiness impact bosom rate.
7. Tap done to larn astir Cardio Fitness.
8. Tap Turn connected Notifications to person alerts erstwhile your cardio fittingness level is low.
   • Or, pat Not Now.
9. Tap Done.

And that's it!

The Apple Watch volition present instrumentality cardio fittingness measurements whether you're connected an outdoor tally oregon a walk, and each the results volition beryllium pulled unneurotic and viewable wrong the Apple Health app.

There are aggregate factors that tin little cardio fittingness levels, specified arsenic gestation and lung and bosom conditions, but if your cardio fittingness levels should dip low, and if notifications are enabled, the Apple Watch volition nonstop notifications with recommendations connected however to amended it.

Want to cognize more?

The Apple Watch Series 6 and Series 7 are some susceptible of monitoring humor oxygen levels too. Read our abstracted diagnostic connected however to get a speechmaking if you person a Watch Series 6 oregon Watch Series 7.

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Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 14 December 2020.