My Tracks
Did you know that Google also has an application to record our workouts? It's called My Tracks, and it's a complete tool that takes advantage of the technical characteristics of smartphones to record the location of the user and know their movements, something that can be useful for discover data such as speed and terrain elevation, among other things.A very useful and functional option that can also be useful for making a calculation of displacements, whether or not sports training
My Tracks surprises with its simplicity Compared to applications like Runkeeper or Endomondo, which are also single and easy to use, My Tracks surprises by its functioning, It does not require any configuration. Just press a button to start recording displacements. A pair of buttons and three tabs to separate the different data is all the difficulty we found in this Google toolWe will tell you step by step how to use it below.
As we say, My Tracks surprises by its simplicity from the first moment.As soon as we start it, all we have to do is press the red button to start recording our movements. With this we go to the tab Map, where we can see the route that is being carried out. Of course, it is necessary to activate the GPS sensor to obtain more reliable data. The monitoring of our steps or movements is done in the background, giving the user the opportunity to move through the rest of the tabs of the application.
The second tab, named Graph, displays a table that crosses two customizable variables: the elevation terrain and speed A very interesting option for fans of mountain biking, who can comfortably get to know the characteristics of the place by the one they have trained. The third tab, for its part, shows the statistics of the displacement: vespeed, total distance, total time, average speed and maximum speed achievedSomething to which the information of heart rate can be added if we use measurement devices compatible with this application such as Zephyr HXM Bluetooth, Polar WearLink Bluetooth and ANT+
But there are more interesting points, and that is that, while we are making a route, we can include markers to indicate any important or curious question that we have come across along the way. In addition, the information in these records is compatible with other Google tools such as Google Maps or Google Earth, where we can see on the physical map the route. And not only that, but we can store all this data on the SD memory card of the terminal in different file formats ( GPX, KML, CSV, TCX) to ensure compatibility with other documents.All this being able to configure each tab with other data to display, a voice that indicates the intdesired time or distance interval and so on.
In short, a complete Google application that can be useful for recording sports practices or to keep a complete diary of our trips, whatever they may be. But the best part is that you can download completely free for Android devices throughGoogle Play.
