Small changes for big health by building better habits with Samsung Galaxy Watch

Kaizen. The Japanese concept of continuous improvement through small, incremental changes.

When it comes to your health and wellness, small changes can make a big difference. Every incremental improvement to your daily habits adds up to a healthier whole. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Watch and Samsung Health app will help build these habits even more effectively with a slate of new features to improve sleep, heart health, fitness and nutrition.

What’s New

New features include Bedtime Guidance, to help optimise your sleep habits; Running Coach, to help strategise your training; and Antioxidant Index4, to help measure and track your body’s carotenoids.

The new features are part of the One UI 8 Watch, which will be available on the newest Galaxy Watch series. Even before then, the features can be experienced through a beta program to a limited number of Galaxy Watch users.

Why it Matters

The goal of these new features is to help you build better daily habits, which can be challenging because they don’t develop instantly. It takes time to accumulate these behavior patterns, and meaningful changes are often only apparent after a long period. But the rewards are worth it.

For example, eating unhealthy food may not immediately impact your health, but over time, it can have significant consequences.

Conversely, adopting healthy habits may not show immediate results, but over time, they lead to positive changes in your body and mind.

Samsung Health’s new features aim to help you develop better habits by motivating you through instant feedback. These features inspire you to maintain your habits by providing rewards or notices, demonstrating immediate impact of your behaviors.

“Sleep remains a cornerstone of our approach to health, as it influences physical and mental well-being, social relationships and even work performance,” said Dr. Hon Pak, Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Health Team, Mobile eXperience, Samsung Electronics. “Now, we envision our Galaxy Watch delivering holistic insights centered around sleep—insights that lead to meaningful changes in daily life. We believe this aligns with our vision of empowering you to lead healthier lives through proactive care and holistic health management.”

Explore New Health Features

Samsung Health’s new features aim to help users develop better habits, using instant feedback as a motivating tool.

Bedtime Guidance

A single night of restful sleep offers immediate health benefits, encouraging more proactive behavior changes and leading to a healthier tomorrow. This starts with a regular and optimal bedtime.

We constantly seek to advance our sleep-related tools, which include sleep pattern analysis, sleep coaching, and optimising sleep environments.
Now, we are providing additional tools for better sleep by suggesting an optimal bedtime based on your lifestyle and sleep patterns while sending reminders to help you stick to it.
By analysing your past three days’ sleep patterns, the feature evaluates your need for sleep pressure and your circadian rhythm to calculate a bedtime that maximises alertness the next day.
This feature is particularly helpful for those trying to optimise their sleep after periods of irregular bedtimes. For example, if you go to bed later than planned over several days, or have inconsistent sleep schedules between weekdays and weekends, the bedtime guidance will consider these factors to ensure you get enough sleep.

Running Coach

While sleep is a precious time to cultivate and care for your health, managing your health during active moments is equally important. Running is one of the most basic and universally available fitness activities, and Samsung has long sought to support runners—offering features to help everyone stay active and achieve their fitness goals.

Many runners face injuries due to over-pacing or are not optimally pushing themselves. Running Coach is designed to help runners safely complete marathons through optimised-intensity and injury-preventive training, making it ideal for beginners.
Our new Running Coach feature delivers motivation and real-time guidance, creating a unique training program based on your fitness level to help you achieve your goals.
Just wear your watch and run for 12 minutes; it will analyse your performance and running level from 1-10. You’ll receive a detailed training plan to help you complete a 5K, 10K, half marathon, or full marathon based on your level. Complete your training session, and you’ll level up and unlock your next running challenge.

Antioxidant Index

When taking a holistic approach to health, we naturally focus on aging and inspiring healthy aging.

However, behavioral factors—such as drinking alcohol, smoking, UV exposure, stress and lack of sleep—can accelerate aging by increasing free radicals in the body. These free radicals damage cells and accelerate aging. Antioxidants—nutrients found in many healthy foods—are molecules that neutralise these free radicals, helping prevent chronic illnesses and promote healthy aging.

Use Galaxy Watch to measure carotenoids, which are antioxidants found in green and orange vegetables and fruits, stored in your skin.
These insights reflect behavioral changes—for example, drinking carrot juice can show changes in the index—providing motivation to adopt healthier habits.