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Fitness Tracker-A necessity or fashion statement?


Fitness Trackers are becoming increasingly popular these days. These wearable devices change your mindset towards fitness by providing you the vital stats of your health in real-time all throughout.    

Whether you are a working professional or a professional sportsman of any age or a retired person, these fitness trackers make fitness easy by providing the data related to your fitness with the help of sensors and algorithms used in them.

Needless to say, in the next 3 to 5 years these small gadgets are going to make the same revolution as being done by smartphones in the recent past. These small devices will be equipped with even better features and greater capabilities in times to come.  


Why Fitness Trackers? :  



Every year, a number of brands launch their products into the category of Fitness Tracker Bands or SmartWatch. 

These devices are equipped with mobile sensor technology and inbuilt algorithms and throw real-time data about your physical health in terms of heartbeat, steps covered, time spent on the activity, calories burnt, sleep hours and quality of sleep, etc., which is vital for maintaining a healthy life. Some of them have got compatibility with smartphones through an application, thereby increasing the user interface of your fitness tracker and smartphone as well.

This information helps you to set the tone of your fitness program. Not only that they also motivate you like your fitness buddy to achieve the set goals on a daily basis. 

What are the advantages of Fitness Trackers? : 
  • Daily Motivation
  • Healthy Eating
  • Track your sleep
  • Monitor Heart Rate
  • Counting Steps made easy
  • Fitness Goal Setting
  • Get Accountable
  • Stay Connected
  • Data availability to see trends of efforts and output
On the contrary, there are not many demerits that can be attributed to these gadgets other than the fact that they are quite expensive. Besides, these raise doubts in a few on the stats provided especially in case of blood pressure, etc. 
 
However, by far, these devices have performed pretty well and have always done value addition to its owner in many ways than one.

Fitness Tracker Alternatives & What to Choose in between? 

There are 2 alternatives to the fitness tracker : 
  1. A mobile app which is inbuilt or available on Playstore
  2. The second option is no fitness tracker & no mobile app and just a healthy routine full of exercise and a balanced diet             
                                                               What to choose between a fitness tracker or a mobile app or no band and no app (& follow a routine exercise to achieve your fitness goals), is a relative thing. This is quite a complicated question. There is no fixed answer to this type of thought. 

A fitness band provides you with the vital physical fitness statistics like steps count, distance run / cycled/swim, time taken to complete the task, calories burned, sleep hours, sleep quality, heart rate, and much more depending upon the fitness band you are using. 

These statistics are very important in today's world where we know most of us can not stick to a daily healthy routine and have to undergo heavy stress throughout the day, sit on a desk to do our job for 8 to 12 hours a day. And, finally have to resort to junk food almost every day.

These things make it absolutely necessary (if, not compulsory) to have a real-time physician with us 24/7. Isn't that right?  And, a fitness tracker exactly does that. It throws real-time stats on your physical health for you to think and act upon. Right?

On the contrary to this, you may skip the idea of owning a fitness band, if you are a passionate fitness freak and if you are high on self-motivation. 

Many sports stars hardly used it when they were at the helm of their career. In fact, the fitness tracker did not exist only during the era of Mike Tison (Boxing), Pele (FootBall), Maradona (FootBall), Arnold (Body Building), Allen Border(Cricket), Michael Jordan (Basket Ball), Muhammad Ali (Boxing), Lance Armstrong (cycling). Hmmm... Right? 

Final Word: 

To go in for a fitness band ? or Is fitness band just a show-off gadget? The answer to these questions depends upon your thought process. There is no right or wrong theory for a fitness band. 

As long as wearing a fitness band makes you think of the betterment of your health and fitness, it fits into the objective it was meant for. Based on the stats provided by the fitness tracker band, as long as you burn calories as part of routine exercise, the fitness band achieves the objective for which it is made. It is mainly intended to make you get up and move on in your fitness journey.

Besides, the added and micro details like heartbeats, blood pressure, ECG which is available in some unique fitness bands may help you to take special care of your health which is a must at a certain age. 

Quite often we treat ourselves with a dinner at a 5-star hotel or an exotic vacation by spending money much more than the cost of a fitness band. Aren't we?  Do we not spend on a costly sedan to pamper ourselves for whatever the hard work we did in life to reach this level?  There is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

So, why hesitate when you spend something for your body? You, Your body an important part for your family members. Right? Then, why hesitate to spend on something very important for your family and something that motivates you to stay fit? It's quite justifiable to spend on the gadgets that help you stay fit or even think of fitness.

In case, you can not afford a costly fitness band, you may choose an economic one. There are many brands that offer low-cost fitness bands. 

But, that time is definitely not far off when a fitness band will be as popular as a smartphone phone or a must-have gadget due to real-time health stats they give on account of the digital intelligence quotient being used it. Here, we recommend a strong YES for these Fitness Trackers. What do you say?





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