Last time, we briefly compared the difference between Mi Band 5 and Mi Band 4. Where is the upgrade? This time, we will use its sports function, especially the emphasis on skipping rope.

From the comparison, it can also be found that the supported sports modes of Xiaomi Mi Band 5 have increased, which is in line with the enthusiasm of the title of " Rekindling Powerful". And Xiaomi Mi Band 5 also has a built-in three-axis gyroscope to detect movements more accurately, so the recorded/calculated values after exercise will be more informative than the previous generation.

The key point is that Xiaomi Mi Band 5 can support 11 kinds of sports, including outdoor running, cycling, walking, and indoor treadmill, rowing machine, elliptical machine, yoga, pool swimming, indoor cycling, skipping, and free training.

Among them, yoga, skipping rope, rowing machine, elliptical machine, and indoor cycling are the newly added sports.

Heart rate zone will be displayed

Among the 11 supported sports, outdoor running and indoor running will be automatically detected, and the others must be activated before exercising.

Among these items, indoor running will record time, distance, cadence, and the current heart rate zone (the cadence is not displayed because there is no movement during the shooting).

After running, in addition to the above data, you can also see the pace, stride length, etc. After finally syncing to the Xiaomi Sports APP, you can see a more complete record. If there is something missing, it may be that there is no pace for individual periods.

As mentioned earlier, the heart rate interval will be recorded, not only running, but almost every sport Mi Band 5 will match the heart rate to calculate the "heart rate interval" at that time. This value is quite meaningful for sports. It can be seen that sports The heart rate for a certain period of time, what kind of exercise intensity is achieved, those who intend to train the cardiorespiratory strength, or burn fat through aerobic exercise, still need this number.

And Xiaomi Mi Band 5 can detect heart rate 24 hours a day. When viewing the current heart rate on the bracelet, you can also view the combustion results achieved today/so far, and the highest/lowest heart rate.

The items recorded in flywheel/indoor cycling and elliptical exercise are relatively simple, including time, calories burned, and what effect the current heart rate zone is achieving.

I personally think that the rowing machine and skipping rope are more special. In addition to the basic time and heart rate range, the rowing machine additionally records strokes, stroke frequency, pulling time, and closing time. Usually, you need to cooperate with inhalation and exhalation when pulling and retracting the paddle. You can adjust the rhythm of retraction and breathing with reference to the detected movement time.

When skipping rope, it will also record data such as time, frequency, calories, frequency, heartbeat, etc. The test found that the counting is quite accurate, whether it is the editor jumping by himself, or when shooting a video, ask Momou to dance, the value of the bracelet is the same as the one on the skipping rope. The counters are all consistent, or just 1 or 2 off. It's a pity that you can't set the number of times as the goal before jumping.

Don't miss the nap record either

In addition to sports, Xiaomi Mi Band 5 also adds new daily health detections such as stress detection, breathing adjustment, women's health, nap records...etc.

Adding the daytime nap recording function should hit many night shift workers. You don't need to turn it on, you can record it when you wear a nap, but after trying it, most of the recorded ones fell asleep quickly, or more than two hours. Others were not recorded, some slept less than half an hour, some slept sitting or lying down, and what kind of naps were not recorded, I have to ask again...

Xiaomi Mi Band 5 also supports 24-hour heart rate monitoring, including sleep time. If you also want to record sleep, it is recommended to turn on sleep assistance monitoring in the settings. The accuracy will be higher, but it will consume relatively power. When I tried it, I always turned on "all-weather + auxiliary sleep monitoring". It will detect every minute, which is very frequent. Under such conditions, 55% of the power is used for 5 days, which is relatively power consumption, but it can also be used by calculation. 9-10 days.

For some projects, although the fineness of the Mi Band 5's recording is not as high as that of a watch, for example, the segment speed will not be recorded when running, but it is enough to check the general exercise results. And found that the heart rate, times and other records are indeed quite accurate.

However, before starting the recording, you can let the user set the goal of calories, time, distance, etc., otherwise it may be more supervised or accompanied by exercise.