Fitness trackers can help you to monitor your exercise, sleep and even your food intake every day. The best one for you will depend on how much you want to know about your daily health, and whether you want a simple watch, or a device that links via an app to your phone.
Fitness trackers usually record your daily steps, heart rate, rest and activity levels. Some will also tell you your calories burnt in the day, your sleep patterns, and some come with a food diary app on your phone to monitor how much you’re eating. Here are some of the best currently on the market:
“Fit Bit”
Best features: Daily Heart rate tracking, Step counting and Sleep tracking.
Fitbit’s fitnrss trackers work with a Fitbit app for smart phones, which is easy to use and has features to monitor your diet, water intake and daily activity goals.
Fitbit devices are built for everyday use and offer a simple way to help you increase your activity and exercise levels. It has a handy seven day battery and watch face.
Garmin Forerunner Watch
Best features: watch face, GPS, waterproof.
This range of sports watches help you to monitor your heart rate, your running or walking distance (via GPS), and have a smart function to allow for text or emails to be received. It is a watch designed for athletes who want to monitor their exercise levels and training programmes, with additional smart features.
The watches are waterproof up to 50 metres below water. They are simply a watch and do not have any extra apps for your phone.
Moov Now Wrist Band
Best features: Lightweight, accurate sports/exercise tracking, can be worn on wrists or ankles.
The Moov Now is a small activity band that can be worn on your wrists or ankles. It can measure a wide range of exercise types, from running to cycling, swimming and boxing. It has an app which can pick up on your movements and generate accurate data about how hard you’ve worked and how long for.
The band is not made to be worn all the time and doesn’t come with a heart rate monitor or watch face. It does track your sleep and is one of the cheapest on the market, it’s purely about fitness tracking and helping you to increase your activity.
