Meditation - New Activity Type

[Shant]

I think adding Meditation as an activity type will be great for Strava. 

This is important because:

• Meditation helps athletes calm their mind and improve mental health before big races
• Strava can partner with guided meditation apps like Calm or Headspace to send directly to the activity feed like Peloton/Zwift
• As an incentive and benefit for subscribers, Strava can give free access to Calm/Headspace/Tara Brach/Sam Harris specifically for endurance athletes. Headspace has partnered with Nike. 
• Meditation activity can be set to private to respect athletes and athletes can choose if they want to make it public by opting in.

An example of when I would want this feature is every morning. I try to take one deep breath every day and would do it more often if I saw that my friends are doing it too. And I'm interested to know who they follow and which guided sessions they use. Thank you Strava! 

[DeanCrabb]

It would be good to have a new activity type of mindfulness. I currently use a third-party app on my Garman watch to track it, which only syncs through to my Strava as general “workout” type of exercise. While mindfulness is not specifically a fitness exercise it has definitely been scientifically proven over the last 20 years to be beneficial to your overall well-being, stress, health, recovery, focus and sports performance. Mindfulness has become widely accepted as a beneficial practice in performance for athletes. Tracking mindfulness sessions and its effects on your health, well-being and performance would be very beneficial, similar to tracking an injury and its affect on your performance (I’ve seen another suggestion in this feed regarding injury tracking which I think is equally valuable). 

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea to add meditation. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[Zax]

Meditation should be subcategory of Yoga type.

[WillJohnson]

+1 from me. Apple Fitness has this workout type as an option.

[Shant]

Meditation and Mental Health 🙏

[hussey368]

Yes, mindfulness! My apple fitness mindfulness workouts won’t pull in.