If you are fitness conscious here are some best
health and fitness wristbands to keep track of your daily activities.
Type
of wristbands
Activity tracker (rest, moving or
sleeping)
Pedometer or step counter
calculates the steps taken and distance traveled
Calories burned, moving and resting time
Sleep monitor lets you see you
sleep pattern at night
Set goals (sleep, steps, exercise, calories
burned, distance traveled)
Some are water proof or water resistant so you can take this to swimming and
shows time of the day
log and sends this wirelessly to an App (and/or) Internet
portal so you can access your personal dashboard and track your activities
either online or via an app
Some models logs heart rate and blood oxygen level.
Best Smart Activity Trackers
and Health Monitors
Fitbit Charge HR
Its
a heart rate monitor and activity tracker wristband . Rated as the top model in wristband range from having
scrolling OLED display. For the big screen lovers there is the Fitbit Surge and
the new Fitbit Blaze, a
performance wrist watch.
-PurePulse Heart Rate continuous monitor
-Track
Exercise; record workouts and real time exercise stats and summaries
-All Day Activity
Tracker: tracks workouts, steps, distance, calories
burned, floor climbed and time
-Caller ID and watch with daily stats and time on OLED display
-Battery
Life: over 5 days
-Monitor Sleep automatically and set a
silent alarm
-Sync automatically to smartphone and
computer wirelessly
Available in different colours
Garmin Vivofit 2
The Garmin vivofit, and the latest vivofit 2 does not look very different. All the
features are available from the original vivofit. The Garmin Vivofit sWireless
Fitness Wrist Band and Activity Monitor is a stylist, lightweight, comfortable
and waterproof (50m) health watchband with over 1 year battery life. There
is a separate model that includes Heart Rate monitor.
Features
-Displays Time
-Steps taken, Distance travelled, Calories burned and Activity Tracker
-Goal countdown
-Inactivity alert (learn your activity
level) with red bars appearing if you sit still for too long
-Monitors your sleep
-Syncs wirelessly via Bluetooth with Online dashboard or Garmin
Connect Mobile app
-Water resistance up to 50 meters
-Battery
life over 1 Year, replaceable
CR1632 coin cells
Misfit Shine
This is wrist band with a
typical watch profile . But instead of clock face you will get a shiny metal
disc made of air craft grade aluminium with LED indicators arranged in circular
fashion.
The Shine tracks your
daily steps, calories used during sports such as swimming, cycling, running and
football. Available in Black, Topaz, Champagne
Features
-Tells the time
-Calculate steps, distance travelled, calories burned and sleep monitor (light, deep)
-Activity tracker (cycling, swimming, soccer, tennis)
-Water resistant to 50 m
-Syncs via Bluetooth to Shine app (iOS and Android) where you can set goals, view stats,
trends and insights
-Battery life 4 months (coin cell battery)
-Colours
Available: Black, Champagne
Jawbone
For those who love
style here is a wristband , the Jawbone works together with the iOS and Android
. It will give information whether you
have reached the goal , motivates to do better compares with performance of
other users and track your history.
It also serve vigilant
to your sleep and tell how deep was the sleep and duration. The wrist band can
set to vibrate as wake up alarm.
Available in small,
medium and large sizes with different shades.
Polar loop2
This
wristband help you to track the daily activities using motion analysis
technology. You can set targets for
yourself by choosing the different levels of activity from low to high
intensities and work towards them.
Features
Tells the time
Steps counter, distance traveled, calories burned, monitor quality of sleep(restful, restless and
percentage restful)
Inactivity alert with vibration to get up
after 55 minutes of sitting and add active break to daily routines
Activity goals offers practical guides
for reaching daily goals, break up activities into five intensity levels;
resting, sitting, low, medium and high
Track
calories burned based on personal data; weight, height, age, gender and intensity
of physical activity
-Smart coaching offers
activity guide to reach daily goals, activity benefit for feedback on daily,
weekly and monthly activity, smart calories to show calories burned, training
benefit for motivating feedback.
-Automatically tracks sleep
time and quality and gain insight to sleeping patterns in Polar Flow web
service and app
-Battery
Life: up to 8 days
-Syncs
to Polar Flow mobile app via Bluetooth (iOS and
Android)
-Smart notifications for
incoming calls, messages and calendar reminders
-Can be paired with heart
rate monitor Polar H7: for energy pointer in smart coach for help to get
into shape and current heart rate.
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