Fitness Trackers

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Topic: Fitness Trackers

 

Fitness trackers, they can come in many forms. From high tech wearables to an old man holding a clipboard and stopwatch theres a way to track your fitness. In this article we will cover a few beneficial platforms to try out and use.

 

If we were to start with wrist trackers such as a Fitbit or apple watch we will see a real time/ on demand tracker that will not only record our steps walked, but our heart rate, estimated calories burned, and distance walked. These type of fitness trackers can be very beneficial for the heart rate function which can track from our wrist or chest. Most of these can have a functional display on the watch to see our progress. Keep in mind that smart watches differ from specific fitness watches regarding fuctionality and uses because of the purpose of the product. The down sides of using such technology is that they can get in the way and can be sometimes fragile. In other words we don’t want to snatch a kettlebell on the watch. Plus depending on our exercises and our WOD's we may need to use wrist wraps thus replacing the tracker.

 

Next are fitness workout apps such as "SugarWOD". Most of these are free including Fitbit which can pair to an external source such as a watch, but we are looking at the workout tracker functionality portion in this section. Apps such as SugarWOD can provide us with a platform to record our PR's (Personal Records) and WOD's (Workout of the Day). This also provides a scoreboard for athletes to see where they placed among other fellow athletes in the same workouts. Plus these will show a detailed analysis of our progress in specific movements. Having the ability to track your scores are not only helpful, but it also makes finding those scores easy and quick!

 

Finally are the uses of applicable phones that track steps such as samsung and apple phones. Since these are an object that will be in your pocket, tracking steps for example will not be the most accurate estimate since the object will bounce around. As you can see these won't be the best option to use, but it is still available.

 

If you decide to track your fitness in any of the ways mentioned above be sure to tell us in the comments section.

 

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