Fitness Trackers: Are they Worth It? Which one should I get?

There has been a massive increase in wearable fitness trackers recently, the main ones are Fitbit and the Apple Watch. The question that gets asked a lot is, Are they worth it? Well in this blog we aim to answer that question for you.

You see, the price of wearable electronics has come down a lot in the last 2 years, so now they are more affordable than ever to buy. Fitbit being the most reasonable. Even at the lowest price are they still worth it? What can I expect to gain with one? Well, to start off we need to say that we do like a fitness tracker. Now for this article, I’m going to ignore the other features like Speech to text, music control, remote photo taking because we think all that is just gimmicky. We are going to focus purely on the fitness side of things.

Why do we like them?

The first reason we like fitness trackers is due to the main function, tracking. As the old phrase goes if you can’t measure it you can’t improve it. So having these wearable trackers on your wrist make it a lot easier to track a lot of things, and boy! There a lot of things that you can track. Steps being the main one but you can also track Sleep patterns, Food intake how long you sit down, speed, altitude and everything in-between. So you will be able to track everything, thus you will be able to improve.

The most popular thing people use Fitness Trackers for is too count steps. It is important to get your steps in! How many is up to you, The government recommend 10,000, but this is said by the same person that said every man needs to eat 2500 calories a day. I always say do as many as you can and each day tries to match it or even beat it. Tracking steps is good because it stops you sitting around too much and gets you moving and exercising. Almost puts you in competition with yourself. Along with Steps most of these trackers will also track altitude and tell you how many floors or how much height you have travelled. Personally, I have always enjoyed seeing how many floors I have travelled up.

Anything Else

The other important factory to health that you should at least keep an eye on is sleep! Most people don’t know how long they have slept for or even how good that sleep was. We are not going to go too much into the human sleep pattern, the perfect time to wake up and all that, we will save that for another blog post. All you have got to remember is that the two factors to track are length and quality. You want to make sure you are getting good quality sleep, and enough of it. Fitness trackers can now measure how long you are asleep for, and also how well you slept, They track your movement and heart rate to measure this. This can help you improve or maintain good quality sleep.

There are other options

There are also many apps that work with fitness trackers. For example, the Apple Watch will support everyone’s favourite macro track MyFitnessPal so you can easily track your macros. Which if you don’t know you can calculate them using our free Macro and Calorie calculator. Which you can download here. Every tracker is different and each one will have its stand out features, but almost all of them will track, Steps, Height, Play music, make calls and make texts. Which makes them useful even outside of the fitness. You are now asking us which one do we recommend?

The two fitness trackers we are going to suggest are what we would call the current market leaders. They are The Apple Watch and the Fit Bit, Now on their websites, these are classed as “Smart Watches” but they do all the functions talked about above. Now we are not going to tell you which one is better because that is a call for you to make, we will give you the pros of each.