Oura adds two new cardiovascular health tracking features to its smart rings

Oura adds two new cardiovascular health tracking features to its smart rings.

Oura 为其智能戒指增加了两项新的心血管健康追踪功能。

The new features help users better understand how the intensity of regular workouts will affect their long-term health.

这些新功能旨在帮助用户更好地了解日常锻炼的强度将如何影响他们的长期健康。

Oura is introducing two new cardiovascular-focused health tracking features to its smart rings designed to help users better understand the effect regular workouts and exercise are having on their long-term health, and whether they need to ramp it up or dial things down. Cardio Effort and automatic VO2 Max (previously known as Cardio Capacity) are available for the Oura Ring Gen 3 and later models, but only to users with an active Oura membership.

Oura 正在为其智能戒指引入两项以心血管为重点的健康追踪功能，旨在帮助用户更好地了解日常锻炼对长期健康的影响，以及他们是否需要增加或减少运动量。“心血管负荷”（Cardio Effort）和自动最大摄氧量（VO2 Max，此前称为“心血管能力”）功能适用于 Oura Ring Gen 3 及后续型号，但仅限拥有有效 Oura 会员资格的用户使用。

Instead of measuring how fast or far a user went during a run or bike ride, or metrics like calories burned, Cardio Effort measures how hard their cardiovascular system was working during exercise and how long that effort was sustained. Cardio Effort is calculated for individual workouts taking into account both intensity and duration but provides a plain language evaluation that compares a user’s cumulative weekly effort against a personalized baseline.

“心血管负荷”功能不再测量用户跑步或骑行的速度、距离或消耗的卡路里等指标，而是衡量用户在运动过程中其心血管系统的负荷程度以及这种负荷持续的时间。该功能通过综合考虑强度和持续时间来计算单次锻炼的负荷，并提供通俗易懂的评估，将用户的每周累计负荷与个性化基准进行对比。

One one end of the scale is a Light rating that’s described as being a “substantially lower cardiovascular strain than your usual baseline.” The rating scale progresses through Fair, Maintaining, Building, and Reaching at the other end which means your weekly Cardio Effort had a “markedly higher exposure relative to your baseline, signaling that it may be time to prioritize recovery.” So instead of always pushing a user to increase their efforts, the feature does make recommendations for rest when it may be more beneficial.

评估等级的一端是“轻度”（Light），被描述为“心血管压力明显低于平时的基准”。评估等级依次为“一般”（Fair）、“维持”（Maintaining）、“增强”（Building），另一端则是“达到”（Reaching），这意味着你每周的心血管负荷“相对于基准有显著增加，提示现在可能是优先考虑恢复的时候了”。因此，该功能不会一味地督促用户增加运动量，而是在休息更有益时提供休息建议。

Oura Rings already support VO2 Max readings that are used to track aerobic capacity, but the previous Cardio Capacity feature was somewhat cumbersome because estimating a user’s maximum oxygen uptake required a six-minute walking test for calibration. The new version, automatic VO2 Max, currently available as a beta feature through Oura Labs, automatically activates after users complete five “qualifying GPS-enabled activities” that include walks, runs, and hikes.

Oura 戒指此前已支持用于追踪有氧能力的 VO2 Max 读数，但之前的“心血管能力”功能较为繁琐，因为估算用户的最大摄氧量需要进行六分钟的步行测试来进行校准。新版本“自动最大摄氧量”目前作为 Oura Labs 的测试功能提供，用户在完成五次包括步行、跑步和徒步在内的“符合条件的 GPS 记录活动”后，该功能会自动激活。

Once activated VO2 Max readings will be available in the Oura app’s My Health Heart Hub section with a user’s current estimate, their capacity rated as low, fair, high, or peak, how their aerobic capacity has changed over time, and personalized insights for when VO2 Max “meaningfully shifts or stays consistent.”

一旦激活，VO2 Max 读数将显示在 Oura 应用程序的“我的健康心脏中心”（My Health Heart Hub）部分，其中包含用户当前的估值、低/一般/高/巅峰的等级评定、有氧能力随时间的变化情况，以及当 VO2 Max “发生显著变化或保持稳定”时的个性化见解。