FIT Files and new data measures ?

Here is a quick look at some of the fields in a CSV file exported from the WAHOO FITNESS APP. The point of this post is just to give a flavour of some of the things that developers are probably trying to capture that you haven’t seen yet in released products- you can assume that there are many more from developers trying to analyse our sporting movements to the nth degree.

Time (seconds) goes down the file with data fields across the top. I’ve transposed the data column headings to go down the right hand side so you can read them when you click on the image. If you are really interested you can look at Garmin’s FIT file schema (here).  HINT: You have to be REALLY interested.

Anyway back to WAHOO’s CSV export of a session captured using their APP. You can see that ‘smoothness’ and ‘jerkiness’ are being looked at across X, Y and Z dimensions. That information could be of specific interest at that level of detail.

You can see that they are looking at the trunk angle of a cyclist and the rider’s position.

Sorry, that was the least interesting thing I’ve ever written. It started out with good intentions 🙂