Adidas Micoach Smart Run – A Personal Trainer On Your Wrist

Adidas Micoach Smart Run

Adidas Micoach Smart Run – A Personal Trainer On Your Wrist

Adidas’ fitness smartwatch is a serious fitness gadget. It is a personal trainer on your wrist, and an effective one at that. The heart rate monitor combined with GPS and intelligent activity monitoring combine well to track your performance and your progress.

Mumbai: The Adidas miCoach Smart Run is the sports company’s first entry into the smartwatch market and is more like a personal coach on your wrist than a simple activity tracker.

The Adidas miCoach Smart Run is built with double-width rubber wrist bracelet and buckle. The watch standing 15.6mm tall from the surface of the skin and is solidly built weighing 80.5g, which feels relatively light when strapped tightly to the wrist. It is sweat proof.

The top of the device is touch sensitive 1.45in LCD screen, which at just 184 x 184 pixels square is of fairly low resolution. However, the custom interface built on top of Android 4.1.1 makes the most of the screen with big, bold colours and easy to read letters and numbers.

A single push button acts as a multi-function input, clearing options and turning the backlight on when trying to read the watch face in the dark. It will also turn the watch on, and put it into a hold mode that won’t respond to accidental button presses or taps of the screen.

The Adidas miCoach has a dedicated Wi-Fi connection to the internet and does not rely or even connect to a phone. The miCoach requires an existing Adidas miCoach account, which must be created on a computer ahead of time - there is no facility to create an account directly on the smartwatch.

The transflective screen makes the watch face clearly visible without the backlight, reflects ambient light to illuminate the display. The miCoach lasts about 10 days when simply used as a watch.

The miCoach tracks your heart rate, your position, speed and distance traveled via GPS and your motions via an accelerometer. The combined sensors accurately measure your performance, which the on-board coaching programs can then analyse and help you improve.

The miCoach also acts as a music player, with 3GB of built-in storage being more than enough to carry hours of your best workout tracks.

The Adidas miCoach Smart Run is certainly not cheap for a fitness gadget, costing 350, but replaces several other pieces of equipment like a chest heart rate monitor and a GPS in one wrist-borne device.

The miCoach certainly isn’t for the casual exerciser, but if you’re a runner or a keen fitness enthusiast, the Adidas fitness gadget certainly does the business like very little else out there.