Fitness Trackers
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Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts
Wearable activity monitors can count your steps and track your movements, but they don’t, apparently, help you lose weight. In fact, you might lose more weight without them.
The fascinating finding comes from a study published today in JAMA that found dieting adults who wore activity monitors for 18 months lost significantly fewer pounds over that time than those who did not. The results suggest that activity monitors may not change our behavior in the way we expected, and raise interesting questions about the tangled relationships between exercise, eating, our willpower and our waistlines.
There have been tantalizing hints in a few studies recently that new technologies…
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Fitness Trackers: Four Models That Are Fitter Than Ever
For durability and ease of use, basic fitness trackers still go the extra mile. A look at the Fitbit Charge HR, Garmin Fenix 3, Misfit Shine 2 and Runtastic Moment.
I Don’t Know How to Ride My Bike for Fun Anymore
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Not All Who Wear Fitness Trackers Are Lost
New results published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association say that wearable monitor devices do not help people lose weight. Rather the opposite: People who wore trackers for 18 months of attempted weight loss actually lost less weight than people who went untracked.
Now Here's A Solid Fitness Tracker That Also Measures Body Fat
But the Touch is much more than a step counter. First of all, it can measure your body fat versus muscle composition. That helps you to better understand the impact of your diet and workout activities over time.
Popular wrist-worn fitness trackers vary in heart rate readings
Commercial fitness trackers worn on the wrist are less accurate than a chest strap monitor at measuring heart rate, and may over- or underestimate heart rate depending on activity level, researchers say. In general, wrist monitors are more accurate at rest than during exercise.
Sports apparel brands are all walking away from fitness wearables
While none of these companies have completely halted their digital fitness efforts, there's certainly an overall theme of scaling back, especially when it comes to hardware. In fact, assuming Adidas is getting out of hardware, that means that pretty much all of the major sports apparel companies have given up on the wearables space. They join a long list of other companies (Intel, Jawbone, and Microsoft to name a few) that ultimately couldn't cut it in fitness wearables.
The Apple Watch Wants to Become the Ultimate Fitness Tracker
It's now a good option for both casual exercisers and serious athletes.
The future of wearable technology is not wearables – it's analysing the data
The focus from the technology industry has been on getting gadgets on to wrists, but that will change in the very near future as consumers start to demand more from the lumps of plastic attached to their person.
The Fitness-Data Revolution Is Just Getting Started
Companies want to turn all those numbers about consumers into more personalized—and fun—workouts.
How Fitbit Could Challenge the Apple Watch
2017 wasn’t kind to Fitbit. Here’s the case for an unlikely partnership that could help it make a dent in the smartwatch market.
Wearables Are Totally Failing the People Who Need Them Most
It’s a shame because the people who could most benefit from this technology—the old, the chronically ill, the poor—are being ignored. Indeed, companies seem more interested in helping the affluent and tech-savvy sculpt their abs and run 5Ks than navigating the labyrinthine world of the FDA, HIPAA, and the other alphabet soup bureaucracies.
Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts
Wearable activity monitors can count your steps and track your movements, but they don’t, apparently, help you lose weight. In fact, you might lose more weight without them.
Best fitness trackers...
Eat, sleep, walk, repeat with these top activity bands.
Wareable
Wareable is the authority on wearable technology. Wareable is your trusted guide to getting the most from your connected self.
Microsoft Band
For people who want to live healthier and achieve more there is Microsoft Band. Reach your health and fitness goals by tracking your heart rate, exercise, calorie burn, and sleep quality, and be productive with email, text, and calendar alerts on your wrist.
Fitbit
Fitbit wirelessly syncs to online tools and apps to keep you motivated. No buttons, wires, or hassle.
Garmin
Vívosmart HR+ is different from our other activity trackers1 — not because it lacks any of their features, but because of what it includes that they don't.
Gear Fit2
Gear Fit2 works with you every kilometer, every heartbeat, every step of the way. It also works with a wide range of smartphones.
LifeTrak
With the push of a button, Zoom HRV continuously measures your heart rate and heart rate variability with extraordinary accuracy and precision. Zoom HRV automatically detects your body’s readiness to train and tells you how hard to push. Zoom HRV tracks every move you make, every calorie you burn, and minute you sleep.
Misfit
Misfit has its origins in wellness, beginning with our initial fitness-based innovations. At our core, we are driven by the will to inspire change and improve lives—a far broader mission than fitness. We consider the entire picture: exercise, sleep, nutrition, and even the environment. Healthy living, sum total.
Moov
The multi-sport wearable coach that talks to you as you work out.
YOO
YOO isn’t just an activity device. It’s a powerful awareness tracker that helps transform us from who we are to who we want to be.
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