Last Updated on October 1, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
title of the paper
Accuracy of the Apple Watch Series 6 and the Whoop Band 3.0 for assessing heart rate during resistance exercises:
First author of the paper is Morten Pallisgaard, PhD Student at the Aalborg University Denmark, Department of Physiotherapy:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Morten-Stove
The paper does not use standartized protocols as the other papers we reviewed previously. The participants of this paper performed five resistance exercises:
- Barbell Back Squat
- Barbell Deadlift
- Dumbbell Curl to Overhead Press
- Seated Cable Row
- and Burpees
As said before the paper does not use protocols which could be compared to data from previous papers:
As in the other papers whe reviewed the testing protocols cannot be compared from paper to paper. Not a single paper uses the same protocol as another paper:
The papers about smartwatch accuracy do not use standartized protocols, so data from one paper cannot be compared to data from other papers. Was this done on purpose? Is there a marketing trust of smartwatch manufacturers behind it? And is this as a consequence a violation of competition laws in the US, EU, UK, China, Canada & Switzerland? With no data which can be compared and paper which are eventually co-ordinated with each other and entangled, we have not a real competition, no independent investigation of this topic.
At least for physiologist Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org smartwatches are only of very limited use for his applications, since he missed scientific studies at a high level which would proof their accuracy. But we do not know of such papers.
Are you the last one who reads papers about smartwatch accuracy? Turn off the light.
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