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Apple Watch Offline Maps: Wrist Topo Topo Navigation App
10+ hour, 23+ min ago (1082+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion It puts a detailed offline topographic map on your wrist, with full turn-by-turn navigation, so the phone can stay in your pack. You are an hour past the trailhead. There is no signal, the next…...
Whoop killers: which brands will launch a screenless band?
9+ hour, 2+ min ago (536+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion Killing a killer that has not shipped sounds absurd. It's not. Garmin CIRQA is days or weeks from launch and expected to be the most credible Whoop competitor yet, and the brands watching from the…...
Running Watches 2026: How to Choose by Discipline, Not Brand
19+ hour, 59+ min ago (607+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion A "219 running watch now carries the same physiological software as one costing "750. Work out which of the five you need and your shortlist quickly writes itself. Onboard topographic maps are the clearest price gate. No…...
Fitbit AIR vs watch OS 27: HR and HRV Accuracy Tested
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1555+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion Firstly, when I get a new Apple Watch or a new version of watch OS, for the last 5 or so years, I've always checked whether the HRV recording frequency had changed. So that was one…...
How Modern Fitness Apps Ruin Real Progress
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (427+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion Fitness apps need daily users to justify subscription revenue. Fine. The product design follows from that. Streaks, leaderboards, badges, and social feeds are the retention mechanisms, and in many cases, they sit at the centre…...
RED-S in Female Athletes: What Your Wearable Is Telling You
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1227+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion Three weeks of declining HRV, recovery scores that will not go green and paces that feel harder than the training log says they should. Your wearable is logging it all. What it cannot do is…...
Bloote: Find and follow personalised routes for every training session
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (530+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion When training for a race it can be difficult to find the right route when each session is different. For a shorter or tempo run you are probably interested in a simple route you can…...
Amazfit confirms price rises
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (402+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion Zepp Health has confirmed that average selling prices across the Amazfit portfolio rose more than 20 per cent year-over-year in Q1 2026. Consumers are paying the higher prices. For now, at least, the market appears willing to follow…...
Amazfit Zepp Q1 2026: Why isn't Wall Street convinced if the watches are getting better?
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (548+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion Zepp Health opened 2026 with record first-quarter revenue, strong growth, and a narrowing operating loss. The market response was brutal. At the time of writing, NYSE-listed ZEPP was down 19. 11% over 5 days against a NASDAQ fall of…...
Amazfit goes all in on HYROX. Hail Mary or smart investment?
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (1606+ words) Endurance & performance tech: news & opinion On 15 April 2026, Amazfit signed a three-year exclusive global partnership with HYROX, expanding a regional deal from 2024. The licence fee was not disclosed, but the activation costs were, at least in part. For a loss-making company,…...