Do you want to improve your training regimen? Technology may be able to help. Wearable devices are now becoming very popular ways to track exercise, calories, and other fitness metrics. Smart watches, heart monitors, calorie counters, and more can all be integrated into a smart phone and other mobile devices to provide better functionality. 

Tracking Your Goals

Everyone has their own unique exercise goals. Whether you want to run a 5k or increase the amount you bench, a fitness band can track your goals and your progress. By remaining visible on your wrist, a fitness band can also ensure you don't forget about your goals. Smart devices are able to notify you when you haven't logged exercise, thereby keeping you motivated.

Monitoring Your Heart

Your heart beat has a lot to do with whether or not you're truly achieving cardiovascular exercise. Heartbeat trackers come in many forms, but all of them can detect whether you're active and whether you have entered into a "fat burning" phase. In general, heartbeats of 90 to 120 will be seen as active, while heartbeats over 150 are considered to be fat burning. By monitoring your heart, you don't need to manually enter in your exercise data each time.

Sharing Your Progress

One of the easiest ways to self motivate is to do things in a group. Smart devices can both track your progress and share it with others. You will be able to connect with your friends and family and can even get notifications regarding their diet and exercise. Through this, you can create goals for your entire group and make sure everyone stays on task. 

Recording Your Calories

Being healthy is just as much about diet as it is about exercise. Whether you're bulking or cutting, it's likely that you're counting calories. Though it can be difficult to log into a website and log your calories, it can be very easy when you're prompted by your smart device. Many smart devices support existing calorie counting technology, which can then be integrated and synced with your device.

The most popular technology today is a smart fitness band, but there are many to choose from. A personal trainer can give you more information on the types of technology most suited to your regimen. When used together, work with a personal trainer, like one from Halevy Life, and these smart devices will be able to vastly reduce the amount of time that you spend recording your data.

Share