All about the fitness trackers
Fitness trackers have gained popularity as the best tool to monitor one’s health regime. The use of these trackers enables data to be converted into understandable statistics to view on the smartphone or computers can help understand one’s physical activity, heart rate, and the effect of any fitness regime that one is following. It is best for fitness enthusiasts. It also helps to keep an individual’s physical body in shape and more importantly fit.
The heart rate monitor sensors integrated into these fitness trackers help determine the best regime for a workout session and plan the remaining physical activity through the course of a day. These sensors detect the heart rate through the pulse points in one’s wrist, hand or chest. While the maximum heart rate depicts the maximum pulse rate recorded during extreme exercise or physical activity, exercise, heart rate evaluates the general pulse rate when the individual is doing a certain specific exercise for a set period of time. Resting heart rate is the general heart rate of the individual’s body when they carrying on their normal chores before or after exercises. The difference between the maximum exercise heart rate against the resting heart rate evaluates one’s fitness level and determining the average heart rate and steadily monitoring this during your workout regime ensures an optimum result that is achieved.
Apart from being a heart rate monitor, some of the other reasons why fitness trackers enable a better lifestyle is:
Motivation:
Most people tend to pick up a regime and drop as quickly because they assume they do not visibly see any benefits. The use of a fitness tracker, be it to count the steps taken on an average day or to keep a tab on the calories burnt, helps to keep one motivated to keep progressing without dropping a regime. The chore of workouts becomes a fun-filled activity because the user can compare their stats over days, weeks and see the different signs of progress. Moreover, the app used to pair these fitness trackers to one’s phone also has the function of connecting with friends or even strangers who follow fitness regimes and therefore boosts one’s morale to perform better and stay physically fit.
Focus:
While social media connection is an advantage, one has to remember that the ultimate goal is to compete with oneself. The trackers help to monitor your average level and using any one of the preprogrammed modes or your own workout regime. An individual can focus on staying healthy by minimizing their resting hours and allow oneself to push themselves only within safe limits. These trackers also have calorie counters, to help watch what you eat, a snooze alert to let you know when you have to move if your work is restricted to a computer or sit in a chair without being active for too long.
