A Fitness Phone

In April, I bought a bike, dusted off my Apple Watch SE (2020), and got active. My workouts were walking and bicycling (easier on the knees). All the metrics were tracked. But with a nearly six-years-old fitness/smart watch and a barely all-day battery, I decided a newer and simpler replacement was a good idea. So I ordered a Fitbit Inspire 3…and then cancelled it. I wanted even simpler, plus something cheaper. So I went to Wal-Mart and bought a Casio “dumb” watch. It only tracks time. But today I realized it’s easy to track almost every other metric without a smartwatch or a fitness band. All you need is a smart phone. Because now it’s a fitness phone. I first learned this with the Google Health app on my Android phone. Today, I did it with my iPhone and the Fitness app. Thanks to the altimeter, GPS, gyroscope, and accelerometer, my iPhone calculated and tracked my biking time, distance, location, elevation, speed, and even estimated my calories (likely using my bio-data from the…