Gezondheid en fitness

Hoe je kunt trainen voor een 5 km-loop met alleen de gegevens van je smartwatch

Je hebt echt geen coach, hardloopclub of duur horloge nodig om te trainen voor je eerste 5 km – alleen een redelijk, verstandig plan en een manier om bij te houden of je je er ook daadwerkelijk aan...

Hoe je je smartwatch kunt gebruiken om in 30 dagen betere slaapgewoonten te ontwikkelen

Beter slapen gebeurt zelden per ongeluk — het is meestal het directe resultaat van een paar bewuste, consequent toegepaste veranderingen, die nauwlettend genoeg worden bijgehouden om te weten wat v...

Hartslagzones voor beginners: een complete handleiding voor gebruik met je COLMI-horloge

Als je tijdens je training even op je COLMI-horloge hebt gekeken en een kleurgecodeerd zonenummer hebt zien oplichten zonder echt te weten wat het betekent of waarom het belangrijk is, dan ben je z...

What Is Cortisol and Can a Smartwatch Help You Manage It?

Cortisol gets a genuinely bad reputation as simply "the stress hormone," but the biological reality is considerably more nuanced than that popular framing suggests, and it's worth understanding pro...

How to Use HRV to Time Your Hardest Workouts

Most people glance at their HRV number once each morning and move on with their day without really using it for anything meaningful. Used properly and thoughtfully, though, heart rate variability c...

The Relationship Between Sleep and Weight: What Your Wearable Data Reveals

Diet and exercise tend to get the vast majority of attention in everyday conversations about weight, but sleep plays a genuinely significant, often surprisingly underestimated role in the very same...

How to Use Your Smartwatch to Improve Your Running Cadence

Running cadence — how many individual steps you take per minute while out on a run — is one of the more genuinely underrated metrics your COLMI watch quietly tracks during every running session, an...

What Happens to Your Body During Sleep: The Biology Behind Your Sleep Data

Your COLMI watch or ring shows you sleep stages, total duration, and a composite score each and every morning, but what's actually happening deep inside your body while you're genuinely unconscious...

New Year Fitness Goals: How to Use Your COLMI Wearable to Actually Stick to Them

January is when gym memberships reliably spike and resolutions get made with the very best of intentions — and it's also, just as reliably, when most of those same resolutions quietly fade away by ...

What Is a Sleep Score? How It's Calculated and What It Actually Means

Wake up, check your watch, and there it is: a single number summarising how well you slept. Sleep scores have become one of the most-checked stats on any wearable, but the way they're calculated is...