All the questions you ask about scientific running training, Huawei has the answers

For the human body, running is actually a complicated activity that involves the coordinated work of hundreds of muscles and dozens of circulatory systems. This process can be described as a battle. But when you want to further improve your running ability, it is necessary to break the habits of the current body and form new habits to improve performance. However, sudden changes in training may disrupt the rhythm of our body systems and make it difficult to adapt and injuries may follow one after another. Just like a mechanical watch, even if only one cog is damaged, the watch may become inaccurate or even stop functioning.

The history of scientific running

In the past decades, running has turned into a competition and people continue to explore the training methods of running. Scientific training is now a global hot topic.  In earlier stages, running monitoring mainly relied on the feelings of the body. People assessed the training situation by perceiving their physical reactions, such as determining whether the training is too easy or too difficult according to the breathing rate, breathing rhythm, etc., but there is a problem with this method, which is easy to run at the wrong pace. Many people feel that their breathing is unobstructed, and therefore increase their speed. However, the heart rate may have been far beyond the anaerobic range, which may actually mean that his physical strength has been overdrawn.

With the advancement of electronic equipment, people can monitor their heart rate through specific equipment to assess the training situation. However, there are still several problems with using purely heart rate to evaluate the training including the complicated mechanics of the device as well as its expensive price.

Until today, despite the availability of more training equipment and professional assessment, no one can easily understand their training status through the massive and complex data. So, for scientific running training, whether professional runners or ordinary runners, there are four questions they must raise: How should I pace? What is the appropriate amount of training? How to recover from fatigue? What is the training effect?

Huawei would like to solve the four questions

To overcome the difficulties, there are two requirements. The first is to collect the body data generated by different people in different motion states in order to simulate the environments and collect accurate data. The second is to collect these data for scientific analysis and present accurate and easy-to-understand interpretations by including a team of professionals who understand the health and fitness technology, algorithms, physiology, and medicine.

Huawei is not the first one to participate in this. Technology giants such as Apple and Google have already invested in health and fitness technology. Faced with these giants, huge investment and long-term research and development, Huawei has chosen to become a challenger in this field.

Since 2016, Huawei has established a HUAWEI Health Lab in China. The laboratory supports more than 80 types of testing requests for R&D personnel in fields such as professional research, ecosystem co-development, and health and fitness scenario incubation, ultimately supporting the research, incubation and testing of Huawei’s smart wearable products.

For example, in the high-altitude environment, under the condition of hypoxia and low pressure, is running training good or bad for the human body? Huawei has a special plateau blood oxygen chamber. The environment can simulate the climate changes of the natural environment by providing stable and specific environment temperature, humidity, and altitude simulation control requirements, and can simulate the plateau environment to test the motion state of the human body.

After nearly 6 years of development, Huawei finally developed a set of scientific fitness system and named it HUAWEI TruSport^TM. With the algorithms, it can accurately collect various physical indicators generated by the human body during running, scientifically analyse the collected data, and present the most reasonable training tips. HUAWEI TruSport^TM has the same direction as the current international training, which can build a complete scientific training theory of running.

What does HUAWEI TruSport^TM do?

First of all, in order to measure the running performance that is based on HUAWEI TruSport^TM, Huawei developed the Running Ability Index (RAI). that uses HUAWEI TruSport^TM‘s algorithm to calculate the relationship between heart rate and pace to get a personal score. In addition, everyone can know their current RAI every time they train, so that people can clearly know the gap between their ability and their goals to make accurate performance estimation and receive guidance on the pace. The new RAI system helps runners in competition and training and solve the problem pacing as well.

Secondly, HUAWEI TruSport^TM provides training load, which can scientifically evaluate training volume to help runners scientifically quantify their training, and Huawei proposes to use training load instead of running volume to measure training volume. Training load can also be measured by HUAWEI TruSport^TM to advise runners on the degree of recovery and recovery time for a single training session. In this way, runners can plan a more reasonable amount of training.

Thirdly, HUAWEI TruSport^TM can determine the degree of recovery and monitor short-term fatigue. It can evaluate the user’s degree of recovery and provide guidance on recovery time. Equipped with HUAWEI TruSport^TM technology, the device can give users suggestions for training loads of different intensities under different recovery levels of the body.

Finally, HUAWEI TruSport^TM also provides training index for users to understand their training status. HUAWEI TruSport^TM can help runners combine effective training stimulation with proper rest and find the right time to improve running ability with the changes in physical fitness and fatigue caused by training.

HUAWEI TruSport^TM can provide runners with a very professional training plan, which solves the three problems of data collection, data analysis, and data interpretation that have long existed in running training, but why does Huawei do this?

Huawei’s health and fitness plan

Due to the increasing demand of health monitoring, Huawei put forward the concept of active health management in 2018, using its leading technology capabilities to provide users with top notch active health detection management services. This is also in line with Huawei’s vision: “Committed to bringing the digital world to everyone, every family, and every organisation, and build a smart world with all things connected.”

,. Therefore, Huawei focused on investing in running projects as running training has a lower entry requirement and can be benefit to most users . Huawei’s strategy for health and fitness does not stop here. In fact, what Huawei wants to do is a whole new set of health systems based on smart wearable devices that connect users’ body data and life scenarios, and HUAWEI TruSport^TM is just a component of this strategy.

For example, Huawei’s latest HUAWEI WATCH GT Runner intelligently defines the user’s physical ability level according to the user’s own physical state and exercise habits under the empowerment of HUAWEI TruSport^TM, and exclusively customise the scientific training plan. The training plan can be cycled, and dynamically adjusted according to humanised intelligence.

In scientific running training, Huawei has established its position with HUAWEI TruSport^TM. Technology can play a much greater role in health and fitness management. Many seemingly irregular and unpredictable motion states can become very clear and predictable under the analysis of big data and other technologies. With the capabilities of HUAWEI TruSport^TM, Huawei will likely further develop new technologies in health and fitness.

As what Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO, Richard Yu, said “Technology should serve people, and we will continue to use the power of technology to protect everyone’s health.”

Price and Availability

The all-new HUAWEI WATCH GT Runner will be up for grabs in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia starting at a price of 1299 SAR with a pre-order offer between January 17 and 22 that includes the HUAWEI Body Fat Scale as a gift.