Google Fit adds exercise and nutrition tracking features

Google's fitness tracking app for Android, Google Fit, isn't exactly the best known health service out there. But its newest features may help elevate its profile.

In a post on its Android blog Thursday, Google announced a handful of new features and integrations for Google Fit designed to make the app's offering more comprehensive

Google Fit now integrates with more external apps, and adds new exercise tracking features to Android Wear devices.

For runners and cyclists, Google Fit now displays real-time statistics on speed, time, distance and calories burned, along with a map of your route. If strength training is your exercise of choice, Android Wear devices can track your push-ups, sit-ups and squats, saving all of that data in the Fit app. Read more...