Do fitness trackers really work?
8 years, 11 months ago

Do fitness trackers really work?

ABC  

Fitness trackers are the accessory of the moment for the aspirationally active — you can see them dangling from wrists and pinned to belts everywhere. Tips for fitness tracker success Get competitive with friends and family by synching your devices Incentivise achieving your goals Give your fitness tracker as much personal data as possible to improve the quality of the statistics your device gives you But if you're not one of those people who already enjoys running at the crack of dawn and eating salad, there is still hope. Robert Furberg, a clinical informaticist at RTI International in North Carolina, said fitness trackers perform best when measuring steps. A University of Pennsylvania study found wearable fitness trackers were not quite as accurate at tracking steps as pedometers and accelerometers, and could be up to 22 per cent off. Kelly Evenson, from the University of North Carolina, recently spent time examining key research studies into fitness trackers.

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Best fitness trackers for accurate heart rate and sleep monitoring: Find your ideal wellness companion
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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Best fitness trackers for accurate heart rate and sleep monitoring: Find your ideal wellness companion

Live Mint  

Our Picks Best overall product Trusted brand Buyers love this Stylish choice Unique product Value for money FAQs Want to know what's really happening with your body? Specifications Heart Rate 24/7 Monitoring Battery Life Up to 10 Days Water Resistance 50 Metres Sleep Tracking Light, Deep, REM Reasons to buy Long battery life and swim-proof design. Specifications Sleep Tracking HUAWEI …

Ditch the guesswork and stay fit and smart with best fitness trackers and gadgets to monitor your weight and heart
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ditch the guesswork and stay fit and smart with best fitness trackers and gadgets to monitor your weight and heart

Live Mint  

Did you know that heart disease is becoming a major concern even for people in their 30s? With fitness gadgets like smart rings and advanced fitness trackers, keeping tabs on these aspects has never been easier. What are the best fitness trackers for weight loss and heart health? Check out the premium options for the best smart watches, rings and …

Best Fitbit watches for women: Top 8 options to achieve your fitness goals with smart tracking
3 months ago

Best Fitbit watches for women: Top 8 options to achieve your fitness goals with smart tracking

Live Mint  

Fitbit watches for women are the perfect blend of style, functionality, and advanced health tracking. Specifications Display AMOLED Battery life 6+ days Connectivity Bluetooth GPS Built-in Exercise modes 40+ Material Graphite Aluminum Reasons to buy Extensive workout modes and built-in GPS Long battery life and real-time stats Reasons to avoid Daily Readiness Score requires Premium Notifications only work when phone …

Opinion: Why I’m getting rid of my smartwatch
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Why I’m getting rid of my smartwatch

LA Times  

Many consumers have been drawn to smartwatches for their displays of metrics such as step count and heart rate. An MRI found that the lingering pain I’d been ignoring in my heels — something my watch hadn’t picked up on — was caused by four running-induced stress fractures. I’ve realized that health optimization tools — the ones marketed as necessary …

The best fitness trackers for different people
8 months ago

The best fitness trackers for different people

The Independent  

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Best fitness trackers that will get you moving, from Fitbit to Garmin
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Best fitness trackers that will get you moving, from Fitbit to Garmin

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Getting started and hauling yourself out and about every day won’t always be …

Fitbits, Apple Watches and Other Fitness Trackers Really Do Make You Healthier
1 year, 6 months ago

Fitbits, Apple Watches and Other Fitness Trackers Really Do Make You Healthier

Live Mint  

It’s time to dust off that fitness band or smartwatch and start tracking your activity again. Just the practice of tracking steps can make you think more about health and adopt healthier habits, according to a clinical trial in which participants wore Apple Watches for five weeks. And in a six-week study in Australia, when parents and their kids all …

Best Fitbits to track your fitness in 2023 tried and tested
1 year, 7 months ago

Best Fitbits to track your fitness in 2023 tried and tested

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Since arriving on the wearables scene in 2009, Fitbits …

When wearable technology leads to obsessive behaviour
2 years, 4 months ago

When wearable technology leads to obsessive behaviour

Live Mint  

I have this friend; let's call her Priya. Not only am I confused by the desire to wear technology that looks like you escaped from the hospital, but I also don't see why one needs so many forms of data collection to determine if they are on the right track with their health and wellness goals. You review the data …

Activity trackers could be agents of behavioural change
2 years, 4 months ago

Activity trackers could be agents of behavioural change

Live Mint  

Insufficient physical activity is a major health threat. According to a World Health Organisation report, almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other non-communicable ailments attributable to physical inactivity between 2020 and 2030, costing $27 billion annually, if governments don’t take urgent action to encourage more physical activity among their populations. A meta-analysis study, ‘Effectiveness of …

We review the wearable gadgets that can boost your health
2 years, 6 months ago

We review the wearable gadgets that can boost your health

Daily Mail  

From digital insoles that correct your walk to bracelets that chart your fertility, wearable health technology is a booming industry. From digital insoles that correct your walk to bracelets that chart your fertility, wearable health technology is a booming industry Activity and heart 'watch' Fitbit Charge 5, £129.99, fitbit.com Claim: The 'most advanced' Fitbit, this monitors activity, heart rate and …

The Fitbit Inspire 2 is on sale for $76 and shoppers say it's just as accurate as an Apple Watch
2 years, 8 months ago

The Fitbit Inspire 2 is on sale for $76 and shoppers say it's just as accurate as an Apple Watch

Daily Mail  

SHOPPING — Contains affiliated content. If you want your watch to do more than just tell the time but can’t justify the expense of an Apple Watch, take a look at the Fitbit Inspire 2. Plus, there are hundreds of guided workouts on the Fitbit Premium software, of which you’ll get a whole year’s free subscription with your purchase of …

Do fitness and nutrition trackers hurt or help?
2 years, 8 months ago

Do fitness and nutrition trackers hurt or help?

Live Mint  

Have you heard of the term "orthosomnia?" And it seems, thanks to wearable technology, people have become obsessed with the data around hacking the perfect sleep. These tracking features are a continued craze in wearable fitness technology, and according to Fortune Business Insights, the fitness tracker market size was 36.34 billion in 2020, with a staggering 19.5% growth. However, cynical …

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Hi-tech wristbands can be unreliable at monitoring your health
2 years, 9 months ago

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Hi-tech wristbands can be unreliable at monitoring your health

Daily Mail  

Are you one of the 26 per cent of Britons who own a fitness tracker, such as a Fitbit? Take the popular belief that wearing a fitness tracker will help with weight loss — the idea being that if you use your tracker to keep yourself active, you’ll burn calories and lose weight. The term was coined a few years …

Keeping track of fitness
3 years, 1 month ago

Keeping track of fitness

Deccan Chronicle  

Performance often gets better when monitored, and the same applies to physical activity. Due to our hectic schedules and lifestyles, we tend to skip physical activity for a day or days but the fitness trackers are great in pushing you into being active,” she says. Shalini Passi, fitness enthusiast and founder, SPAF & MASH, online platform promoting architecture, art, design, …

Fitbits DO make you move more! Review of over 100 randomised trials finds
3 years, 2 months ago

Fitbits DO make you move more! Review of over 100 randomised trials finds

Daily Mail  

They were written off by many as just another fitness fad. But a new review has found wearable activity devices like Fitbits and Apple watches really can make people more active. Overall, people who wear monitors take an extra 1,200 steps each day and complete nearly 50 minutes more of exercise per week, the results suggested. A study has found …

The five best fitness trackers you can buy
3 years, 3 months ago

The five best fitness trackers you can buy

Live Mint  

The age of activity trackers is well and truly here. However, at the top end of the spectrum, these activity trackers come with in-built GPS, and are very reliable and accurate for tracking sports like running, cycling, swimming and walking. These wearables can track your exact route and almost exact distance using their GPS units, and this data is much …

Wearable fitness trackers aren't as useless as some make them out to be; here's why
3 years, 3 months ago

Wearable fitness trackers aren't as useless as some make them out to be; here's why

Firstpost  

A meta-analysis of 35 studies in various chronic disease populations suggested users added around 2,100 additional steps per day after they started using a wearable activity tracker Melbourne: Wearable fitness trackers will be on many Christmas shopping lists this year, with a vast range of devices hitting the market just in time for the festive season. So far fitness trackers …

Best fitbits 2021: Track your fitness with the charge 4, inspire, luxe, versa 3 and more
3 years, 7 months ago

Best fitbits 2021: Track your fitness with the charge 4, inspire, luxe, versa 3 and more

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Fitbit has developed quickly in the four years of its existence, from a …

This affordable fitness smartwatch has over 5,000 rave reviews and it's on sale on Amazon
3 years, 8 months ago

This affordable fitness smartwatch has over 5,000 rave reviews and it's on sale on Amazon

Daily Mail  

SHOPPING — Contains affiliated content. Now on sale for just £25.49, the TEMINICE High-End Fitness Tracker is a brilliant budget buy yet comes with an impressive amount of features, including all-day activity tracking like steps and calories burned as well as heart and sleep monitoring. The highly-rated TEMINICE High-End Fitness Tracker is now on sale for just £25.49 on Amazon …

Can fitness trackers help fight obesity?
4 years ago

Can fitness trackers help fight obesity?

Live Mint  

The findings of a pooled data analysis of existing evidence suggests that wearable fitness trackers and step counters are helpful in shedding pounds for people who are overweight, obese, or who have weight-related health conditions. The trials looked at the impact of commercially available wearable fitness trackers and research-grade wearable motion sensors and accelerometers) on weight loss and BMI reduction …

Fitness apps and activity trackers help boost physical activity, reduce health risks
4 years, 3 months ago

Fitness apps and activity trackers help boost physical activity, reduce health risks

Live Mint  

Smartphone fitness apps and wearable activity trackers do help boost physical activity levels, finds a review and pooled data analysis of the available evidence. Some of the most effective strategies to increase physical activity include behaviour change techniques, such as self-monitoring and feedback, which smartphone apps and wearable activity trackers can provide. Pooling the data from 28 of these studies …

The smart fitness tracker you need: Amazon is currently offering up to 30% Fitbit Inspire HR
4 years, 10 months ago

The smart fitness tracker you need: Amazon is currently offering up to 30% Fitbit Inspire HR

Daily Mail  

Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. Amazon is currently treating customers to up to 30 per cent off Fitbit Inspire HR, Versa 2 and Ace 2 so there has never been a better time to invest in your fitness journey. The Fitbit Inspire HR Health and Fitness Tracker is now £69 on Amazon, …

Fitbit Inspire is Amazon's best selling fitness tracker (that also has £20 off right now)
5 years, 2 months ago

Fitbit Inspire is Amazon's best selling fitness tracker (that also has £20 off right now)

Daily Mail  

Is one of your New Year's resolutions to exercise more or perhaps to lead a healthier and more active lifestyle? One item that has become remarkably popular - and is now Amazon's bestselling activity tracker - is the Fitbit Inspire. Fitbit Inspire is Amazon's bestselling fitness tracker and is currently reduced by 29 per cent The Fitbit Inspire is easy …

The Apple Watch Is Now the Control Center for Your Health
55 years, 2 months ago

The Apple Watch Is Now the Control Center for Your Health

Wired  

This week at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple executive Kevin Lynch announced multiple updates to WatchOS, the operating system that powers the company's smartwatch. Beginning this fall, Apple Watch will track your activity trends over time, help protect your hearing by alerting you to harmful levels of ambient noise, and allow users to track their menstrual cycles. But given the …

Don't Bet Your Life On Wearable Fitness Trackers
6 years, 5 months ago

Don't Bet Your Life On Wearable Fitness Trackers

Huff Post  

Prykhodov via Getty Images Last month, the insurer John Hancock announced that all of its life insurance policies would become “interactive” by 2019, tracking fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones. “The human body is one of the most complex systems on earth.” This suggests that individuals shouldn’t make lifestyle choices based on this data, much less hand …

WHY FITNESS TRACKERS AND SMART WATCHES CAN BE INACCURATE
6 years, 11 months ago

WHY FITNESS TRACKERS AND SMART WATCHES CAN BE INACCURATE

Daily Mail  

There are two ways that a fitness watch can measure the distance a person has ran, walked or jogged. Some step trackers don't have a built-in GPS - so will calculate distance travelled on the number of steps that have been taken. Other watches use GPS models or connect to your smartphone to use GPS. Tests often include having participants …

Science Says Fitness Trackers Don't Work. Wear One Anyway
7 years, 3 months ago

Science Says Fitness Trackers Don't Work. Wear One Anyway

Wired  

Personal technology is getting a bad rap these days. About one third of people who buy fitness trackers stop using them within six months, and more than half eventually abandon them altogether. The second, an RCT out of the University of Pittsburgh conducted between October 2010 and October 2012, examined whether combining a weight loss program with a fitness tracker, …

Bored With Your Fitbit? These Cancer Researchers Aren't
7 years, 6 months ago

Bored With Your Fitbit? These Cancer Researchers Aren't

Wired  

If you’re trying to get in shape and you want a tiny, wrist-bound computer to help you do it, you have more options than ever before. And the ones equipped with Fitbit’s proprietary heart rate monitoring tech are on even shakier ground; the company is part of an ongoing class action lawsuit alleging dangerous inaccuracies. Some researchers, like Sheri Hartman, …

Fitness trackers may be incorrectly counting calories burnt, finds research
7 years, 10 months ago

Fitness trackers may be incorrectly counting calories burnt, finds research

The Independent  

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Your fitness tracker can count your steps, but it’s not that good at monitoring your heart rate
7 years, 11 months ago

Your fitness tracker can count your steps, but it’s not that good at monitoring your heart rate

LA Times  

Cara Gilman wears a Fitbit tracker as she leads a yoga workout in Boston. A new study assessing four wristband fitness trackers found that none of them were good at tracking heart rate when users were moving while exercising. Study participants, ages 30 to 65, also were rigged up to an electrocardiograph, which uses leads in a chest strap to …

Fitness trackers’ heart rate monitoring accurate enough for most, study says
7 years, 11 months ago

Fitness trackers’ heart rate monitoring accurate enough for most, study says

CNN  

Story highlights A small study finds that some activity tracker heart rate monitors are more accurate at rest The study measured the devices' performance against an ECG Researcher: "We've had so much advance in technology during such a short period" CNN — The heart rate monitor inside your fitness tracker may not be as precise as the equipment used in …

Witness the fitness
8 years, 3 months ago

Witness the fitness

ABC  

Joel Werner: Usually, when I go for a run, I strap a smart phone to my arm, and I use a running app to monitor my workout. Joel Werner: So, sure, you can augment the kind of basic data collected by your fitness tracker with personal information, and make it more accurate. Joel Werner: Data security concerns aside, there's genuine …

Fitness trackers can make you put on weight, study finds
8 years, 6 months ago

Fitness trackers can make you put on weight, study finds

The Independent  

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Are You Drinking the Fitbit Kool-Aid?
8 years, 7 months ago

Are You Drinking the Fitbit Kool-Aid?

Huff Post  

Everybody and their mom has a Fitbit. It’s also mind-numbingly boring, and—in my experience as a personal trainer for the last 13 years—I have rarely seen it change anyone’s life for the better. We are all in a delicate dance with our bodies, a dance firmly based in relentless measurement and control—and we’re convinced that if we stopped dancing, everything …

Many fitness trackers leak personal data: study
8 years, 8 months ago

Many fitness trackers leak personal data: study

Daily Mail  

Security weaknesses on many popular fitness trackers may allow hackers to access or potentially manipulate user data, a study showed Monday. The study of seven Android-powered trackers by the security firm AV-Test showed vulnerabilities similar to that found in its research from a year earlier - with many devices lacking secure connections or tamper protection. A study of seven Android-powered …

According to a study, exercise undervalued by up to 40 percent by fitness bands
8 years, 8 months ago

According to a study, exercise undervalued by up to 40 percent by fitness bands

Firstpost  

Fitness freaks, take note! Popular wrist-worn tracking bands may underestimate exercise levels by up to 40 percent, a new study has found. “Combining these two factors, it shows there are limits to how much trust we can place in such devices to monitor energy balance and, therefore, to serve as weight loss aids,” said Wallen. The measurements of the wrist-worn …

WWDC 2016: Apple watchOS 3 brings fitness tracking for wheelchair-bound users
8 years, 9 months ago

WWDC 2016: Apple watchOS 3 brings fitness tracking for wheelchair-bound users

Firstpost  

Fitness trackers routinely measure physical activity such as running and cycling and encourage people to stand up and walk around throughout the day. The efforts could give Apple’s smartwatch an image boost over stand-alone fitness trackers such as Fitbit, though the target market isn’t likely large enough to significantly lift sales. “We realize that while it was great for messages …

Wearable fitness monitors DON'T motivate us to exercise - even if we're sporty
8 years, 10 months ago

Wearable fitness monitors DON'T motivate us to exercise - even if we're sporty

Daily Mail  

Many of us believe buying a shiny new fitness tracking device will kickstart our exercise ambitions - leading to a leaner, more sculpted body. But wearable gadgets don't actually motivate exercise at all, a study has found. But wearable fitness monitors don't actually motivate exercise at all, a study found They recruited a group of 36 trainee PE teachers and …

Couple never expected their Fitbit would tell them this …
9 years, 1 month ago

Couple never expected their Fitbit would tell them this …

CNN  

Story highlights Questions about a fitness tracker readings leads to a big announcement A woman learns why her Fitbit was registering an elevated heart rate CNN — A New York husband was stumped why his wife’s Fitbit was acting funny. David Trinidad noticed that the month old fitness tracker his wife, Ivonne Trinidad, was wearing was registering an elevated heart …

Wearable fitness trackers: the dark side
9 years, 3 months ago

Wearable fitness trackers: the dark side

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Strong sales, but high abandonment for fitness trackers
9 years, 8 months ago

Strong sales, but high abandonment for fitness trackers

Firstpost  

Deepak Jayasimha’s fitness tracker is now with his father-in-law in India, where it sits unused. Although sales of Fitbit and other fitness trackers are strong, many of their owners lose enthusiasm for them once the novelty of knowing how many steps they’ve taken wears off. A health care investment fund, Rock Health, says Fitbit’s regulatory filings suggest that only half …

Wearable fitness trackers know more about you than just your health
10 years, 2 months ago

Wearable fitness trackers know more about you than just your health

Firstpost  

Wearable fitness trackers and health monitors are becoming more commonplace and diverse, but just what do you do with all of that data? We’re looking to synthesize that data and turn it into an experience,” says Jason Fass of Zepp Labs, a Silicon Valley startup that makes a tiny, wearable motion sensor for tennis, baseball and golf enthusiasts. But as …

Check wearable lifestyle monitoring devices before buying
10 years, 6 months ago

Check wearable lifestyle monitoring devices before buying

India TV News  

New York: If you plan to buy a wearable device fitted with health apps to improve your well-being, do not go by its flashy Given the large and quickly growing market for these devices, researchers at the University of Texas analysed 13 of these activity monitors - such as those made by Fitbit, Jawbone or Nike - to compare how …

Apple's Watch Will Come With a Suite of Fitness-Tracking Apps
10 years, 6 months ago

Apple's Watch Will Come With a Suite of Fitness-Tracking Apps

Wired  

In addition to being a wearable emoji-sender, heartbeat-sharer, and payment system, the Apple Watch will also be a fitness tracker. These features are of note because they add a new set of functions to Apple's hardware stable, and they directly compete with offerings from long-time hardware partners who already make fitness tracking wearables like Jawbone, Fitbit and Garmin. You can …

A New Breed of Wearables Will Give You Data You Can Actually Use
11 years ago

A New Breed of Wearables Will Give You Data You Can Actually Use

Wired  

Over the past year, we've seen an influx of devices that measure our movements: steps, distance traveled, calories burned, and how many hours we spend on the couch. But now, some companies are taking the wearables idea one step further, building devices that not only record your movements and lay them out in simple graphs, but also collect data in …

Tracking it: 5 best fitness monitors
11 years, 4 months ago

Tracking it: 5 best fitness monitors

The Independent  

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A wristy business: Does the Nike+ Fuelband help you lose weight?
11 years, 10 months ago

A wristy business: Does the Nike+ Fuelband help you lose weight?

The Independent  

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