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What can you do for me?

So, Garmin knows all of this stuff about me, it knows when I wake up, my resting heart rate, when I exercise, what type of exercise I do, how hard I exercise, my weight, my height, when I'm idle, how far I walk, my trends for activity/sleep/rest, what and how much I consume, how many calories I'm burning and taking in, etc. etc.

At what point does Garmin start saying, "Oi fat boy, you've eaten an extra sandwich today, based on your data you'd better get an extra 10 miles on your bike before the weekend!"

Or am I asking too much?

0 ASmugDill over 9 years ago

… am I asking too much?

I think so. Garmin is in the business of selling devices (purportedly to help customers “beat yesterday”, if used effectively and diligently), and throws in some cloud-based data management and analysis service to sweeten the deal, but they're not in the business of selling coaching services, and certainly not the on-demand, at-your-convenience, free-of-charge variety.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

so, garmin knows all of this stuff about me, it knows when i wake up, my resting heart rate, when i exercise, what type of exercise i do, how hard i exercise, my weight, my height, when i'm idle, how far i walk, my trends for activity/sleep/rest, what and how much i consume, how many calories i'm burning and taking in, etc. Etc.

At what point does garmin start saying, "oi fat boy, you've eaten an extra sandwich today, based on your data you'd better get an extra 10 miles on your bike before the weekend!"

or am i asking too much?

lolololol!!!!!!!

0 JSRUNNER_ over 9 years ago

Personally I'd rather Garmin kept their noses out of my data unless asked - unfortunately the current trend is for people to give away pretty personal data to large organisations for free and with very little practical control. I am equally guilty - although I do try and control it where I can. There are huge dangers to drawing conclusions from a limited set of data with no visibility of the surrounding conditions and other factors. There are also huge possible risks to sharing what amounts to health data - if your data were to show excessive heart rate variability for example that might be very interesting data for an insurer to have - and were they to have it could impact a premium.