Polar adds personalized fitness subscription to its smartwatch app, like Garmin's

Image: Polar Your smartwatch is slowly becoming your personal trainer, thanks to subscription plans that use the biometric data gathered by the watch to create customized training plans. Smartwatch and fitness brand Polar introduced its paid, subscription-based Fitness Program on Thursday. The program brings "science-backed" cardio training plans to the Polar ecosystem, tailored to the user's fitness goals, routine, and recovery. Also: Oura's CEO wants its smart ring to be the doctor in your pocket The plan seems built for people who may be new to their fitness routine and want an outlined plan that uses their biometric data, gathered in the app, to create a training plan without the fuss or time of doing that themselves. The program will schedule cardio workouts and optional strength and mobility sessions into a user's weekly fitness plan, and users can integrate their preferred activities into the plan as well as choose the days they'd like to train and rest. Polar says Fitness ... Read full article.