Latest updates · 21 October 2026
In the full issue →Wearables are turning everyday workouts into fitness insight: Oura has added Cardio Effort and automatic VO2 max estimates for its smart rings.
Research, industry & policy
- Oura rings now track Cardio Effort and VO2 max automatically, The Verge · 20 Oct 2026: The features, for Oura Ring Gen 3 and later with an active membership, show how workout intensity affects long-term cardiovascular health; automatic VO2 Max was previously called Cardio Capacity.
Journals & preprints
- MoveBench: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Sports and Health Coaching, arXiv 2610.26185 · 19 Oct 2026: Despite rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), their deployment in the sports and health domain remains high-risk due to the absence of domain-specific evaluation benchmarks.
Conferences, workshops & events
- AI in Sport (short programme), 14–15 Dec 2026 · Lausanne: Two-day course on responsible AI adoption in sport; CHF 1,400.
Why it matters
Passive, automatic fitness estimates make training feedback available to people who never do a lab test.
