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TL;DR
- Google has detailed its new Step-by-step Workouts feature for the Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Watch 5.
- You can follow strength, mixed, and Coach workouts on your wrist, with or without your phone, and edit weights and reps mid-workout.
- Building workouts with the Google Health Coach requires a Google Health Premium subscription.
In a post on the Pixel Watch Community forum, Google confirmed that the feature is rolling out to the Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Watch 5 starting today and over the coming week. It offers step-by-step guidance on your wrist for strength training, mixed workouts, and Coach workouts.
Here’s what Step-by-step Workouts can do
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The biggest highlight of Step-by-step Workouts is how flexible the feature is. You can follow a routine on your phone and watch together, with actions on one device syncing to the other. If you pause or end a workout on your phone, it pauses or ends on your watch too. If you’d rather not carry your phone around the gym, you can leave it in the locker and complete the workout on your watch alone.
There are a few ways to set up a workout. You can pick one from a Coach-created plan, ask the Google Health Coach to build a custom workout on the spot, or put together your own multi-exercise routine from Google’s library of over 1,000 predefined exercises in the Google Health app.
Once you start, each segment of the workout gets its own focused view showing your current exercise, your target metrics, and a preview of what’s next. If a weight feels too heavy or you want to change your reps, you can edit them during the workout from either your phone or your watch.
Google has also added automatic progression, with visual timers and audio cues telling you when a set or rest period is done. If you’d rather control the pace yourself, a swipe left during a workout lets you switch audio cues or auto-progression on or off.
That said, Google says you can still start a structured run on your phone, and it will launch on your watch automatically.
Obviously, any Google Health Coach-based experience requires a Google Health Premium subscription, sold separately, along with the Google Health app and an internet connection.
That means the most convenient part of the feature, asking an AI coach to build a workout for you in seconds, is locked behind a paywall. Google’s post doesn’t attach the same requirement to building your own routine from the exercise library, so non-subscribers should still be able to create and follow custom workouts by hand.
