Impact of Digital Fitness Bands on Healthy Life practices

                                    Impact of Digital Fitness bands on Healthy life practices

In the past few years Digital Fitness bands have became increasingly popular all around the world. Every year new models of wearable trackers are released with enhanced features to attract the consumers. Many of the digital bands claim to help in weight loss and Improve health by counting the no of steps each day. Many of the enhanced digital fitness trackers can even measure the person’s heartrate to detect the quality of sleep.

How do Fitness Trackers Work?

In simple words, Fitness trackers track our everyday activity by using a variety of tools like gathering data about our movements, steps and then they interpret and analyse that data and present a report before us. Different trackers give you different information and numbers because of different algorithms used in models of various brands. But in the end they all work in the same way by measuring our motion.

Most of the brands use a 3-axis accelerometer which measures our movements in all the directions. Many devices are also equipped with an altimeter to measure how many stairs you have climbed in a day. With enhanced features, fitness trackers can now even sense our temperature to measure our heartrate. They can also sense our wrist movements. In the end, they measure certain variables like frequency, acceleration, intensity etc. Most of the digital fitness bands generate graphs with detailed information on your all day steps, body movements, intensity & sleep behaviour. Simply saying they help you in comparing your day to day performance.

Do fitness trackers aid in weight loss?

Yes, Fitness trackers do help in weight loss. If you want them to help you in weight management, you should enter your current weight and the target weight. Then the tracker will automatically calculate a daily calorie allowance to reach that goal. The tracker will also make a report on the calories you intake in a day and the calories you have burnt. Some of the most famous brands in digital fitness bands like fitbit & witthings are synchronised with smart scales which helps in transmitting the data from tracker to the app.

A study was conducted in February of 2015 in the journal of the American Medical Association. Six trackers were included in the study. According to the study all were fairly accurate in recording the steps.

How Digital bands can help an individual?

Digital fitness bands can help an individual in monitoring their activities themselves. They can help you in setting your own fitness goals and keep you motivated by consistently giving you reports about your activities, goals, no of calories you have burnt in a day or the no of steps you have walked. What’s special about the trackers is they can show you how much of the goal you set have been met. They are easy to use, not very expensive & very convenient to measure different spaces.

If an individual has a goal, for example let’s say he wants to loose four pounds in a month. First, he will set the tracker for four pounds and now the tracker will break it into different heads using the algorithms installed in it. The app will make a target of how much calories you have to intake and how much you have to burn in a day. All in a systematic manner. Now the individual does not need to write down the whole plan for the month. All he needs to do is a swipe on the smartphone. And definitely by continuously monitoring and meeting these targets the individual will reach his fitness goals.

Advantages of Fitness bands

1. A digital band keeps you reminding of your fitness routine each and every day whether it’s walking, jogging or working out.
2. It keeps you informed about how much calories you have burnt in a day and how much more you need to do.
3. It keeps a check on your calories intake and stops you from consuming those extra calories which can deviate you from your fitness goals.
4. It gives you a visual report of goal and accomplishments each day. This helps you in staying motivated.
5. It helps in maintaining a healthy life style by keeping a track of your everyday diet like food and water.
6. If you want to achieve a goal in a week or a month, you can set it on the tracker and it will customize a plan for you to reach that goal.
7. With enhanced features, now a fitness tracker also tracks your sleeping patterns which is also a very big indicator whether you are perfectly healthy or not.
8. One of the best advantages of a digital fitness bands is that they are always connected to a wifi or Bluetooth which helps you in receiving incoming calls, messages etc.
9. Now digital fitness bands or trackers can also measure your heart rate by measuring your pulse. This allows you to reach your target heart rate with each workout.
10. Many people like to share their physical fitness photos or videos. Your digital bands help you in linking with the other fitness bands which helps in joining groups around your area or location.

So this was all about digital fitness bands or fitness trackers which can really help you in improving your healthy life practices. In my opinion they are amazing & you should give them try.