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Coros, maker of some excellent running watches that rival Garmins in features and accuracy<\/a>, announced a set of updates<\/a> that include voice alerts, in-app training plans, and the ability to (finally!) change the number of reps in a strength workout directly from your watch. Here are the highlights:\u00a0<\/p>\n Libraries of training plans and workouts in the app<\/p>\n Coros offers pre-built training plans for a variety of goals, like running your first marathon or beating 25 minutes in a 5K race. But until recently, you couldn\u2019t browse and select these from the app.\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, you can go into Profile<\/strong> on the Coros app, and select Training Plan Library<\/strong> or Workout Library<\/strong> to see all your options. There are separate tabs for the official offerings from Coros, and for \u201cMy Workouts\u201d to show just the ones you\u2019ve created or saved for yourself.<\/p>\n Correcting reps directly from the watch<\/p>\n When you\u2019re doing a strength workout, a Coros watch can attempt to count reps, but it doesn\u2019t always get things right. With the new update, you can now edit the rep count on your watch immediately after the set.<\/p>\n The strength training feature also adds animations for each exercise, but I found that to enable this, I had to go to the Profile<\/strong> tab in the app and tap \u201cDownload now\u201d to get the animation files onto my device. The watch helpfully told me how to do this, but it couldn\u2019t download the files during a workout, so I had to end the workout, download the files, and restart.<\/p>\n What do you think so far?<\/p>\n Voice alerts while you\u2019re running<\/p>\n Previously, a Coros watch could beep to let you know when a turn was coming up on a route you\u2019re following, but unlike a Garmin, it wouldn\u2019t actually speak to you to say \u201cturn left.\u201d Now, voice alerts are available for pace, distance, and upcoming turns, as well as nutrition alerts (reminding you to eat during a run), if you\u2019ve enabled those.<\/p>\n Voice alerts, like exercise animations, also require a file download. Go to Profile<\/strong>, your device, and File Downloads<\/strong> to make sure they\u2019ve been added before your run.<\/p>\n The update also adds more workout modes, including yoga and pilates; an AI chatbot for help; alerts when you\u2019re running a route backwards (and the ability to run it backwards on purpose); and more, including redesigned controls that are intended to be more touchscreen-friendly on touchscreen watches like the Pace Pro<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We may earn a commission from links on this page. Coros, maker of some excellent running watches that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[705,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-92934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114917148306056512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}