Coros, maker of some wonderful working watches that rival Garmins in options and accuracy, introduced a set of updates that embody voice alerts, in-app coaching plans, and the flexibility to (lastly!) change the variety of reps in a energy exercise straight out of your watch. Listed here are the highlights: 

Libraries of coaching plans and exercises within the app

Coros gives pre-built coaching plans for a wide range of targets, like working your first marathon or beating 25 minutes in a 5K race. However till lately, you couldn’t browse and choose these from the app. 

Now, you may go into Profile on the Coros app, and choose Coaching Plan Library or Exercise Library to see all of your choices. There are separate tabs for the official choices from Coros, and for “My Exercises” to indicate simply those you’ve created or saved for your self.

Correcting reps straight from the watch

If you’re doing a energy exercise, a Coros watch can try to depend reps, nevertheless it doesn’t at all times get issues proper. With the brand new replace, now you can edit the rep depend in your watch instantly after the set.

The energy coaching characteristic additionally provides animations for every train, however I discovered that to allow this, I needed to go to the Profile tab within the app and faucet “Obtain now” to get the animation recordsdata onto my machine. The watch helpfully informed me how to do that, nevertheless it couldn’t obtain the recordsdata throughout a exercise, so I needed to finish the exercise, obtain the recordsdata, and restart.

Voice alerts when you’re working

Beforehand, a Coros watch might beep to let you recognize when a flip was arising on a route you’re following, however not like a Garmin, it wouldn’t really converse to you to say “flip left.” Now, voice alerts can be found for tempo, distance, and upcoming turns, in addition to vitamin alerts (reminding you to eat throughout a run), in case you’ve enabled these.

Voice alerts, like train animations, additionally require a file obtain. Go to Profile, your machine, and File Downloads to verify they’ve been added earlier than your run.

The replace additionally provides extra exercise modes, together with yoga and pilates; an AI chatbot for assist; alerts if you’re working a route backwards (and the flexibility to run it backwards on function); and extra, together with redesigned controls which can be meant to be extra touchscreen-friendly on touchscreen watches just like the Tempo Professional.