Amazon is adding fitness tracking to Echo Buds wireless earbuds. Starting now, you can voice activate the new feature by saying, "Alexa, start a workout."

The fitness tracker works using the internal accelerometers inside the Echo Buds, along with details added into the Alexa smartphone app to calculate calories burned, distance traveled, and pace.

Alexa Adds Fitness Trainer to Its Resume

To set up the new feature, Echo Buds users will need to create workout profiles under device settings in the Alexa app. Once set up, users can voice-activate fitness tracking, get updates on their pace, pause, and end fitness sessions.

To see stored workout data, users can open the Alexa app and look at the Workouts tab, which can be found under Devices >Echo & Alexa > Echo Buds.

Echo Buds are currently among the products that saw a significant reduction on Amazon during Black Friday, making them one of the lower cost noise suppressing fitness tracking wireless buds available currently.

Amazon Picks up the Fitness Pace

The new feature comes as little surprise, given Amazon's increasing moves into the health and fitness space. While the Amazon Halo is designed to be a much more comprehensive health monitoring device, the new Echo Buds features are designed to keep recreational fitness inside the Alexa ecosystem.

Those already using Alexa in their daily lives will no doubt find these features useful, but with dedicated fitness trackers with much more functionality available, this generation's Echo Buds still have a way to go to really compete.