

If you’re watching your diet, you can bring the app into the kitchen and log the food you have eaten (and water you’ve drank) to see how many calories you’ve consume each day to help manage your weight. And that has been the case wherever I have kept the tracker on myself. I’ve actually counted a few times while running and it’s almost always within a few steps. The step counts with Fitbit are the most accurate of any device that I’ve tested. And if you keep your phone on you while you’re running, the GPS will even map your routes (obviously this can really kill your battery, so be aware of that.) Before each workout, you can choose the type (run, walk or hike) and even enable audio feedback in the app so you can hear your distance traveled, time and pace in real-time, which provides some added motivation for that final push. You’ll of course get the standard step count, miles traveled, calories burned and active minutes, but you can also use it as a personal fitness journal. The Fitbit app is a great way to track your health and fitness whether or not you even own a Fitbit device (more on that later). As you can see I went with OWC blue for my Fitbit Zip But what good is all this data without a great accompanying app? Luckily, Fitbit has combined great health-tracking hardware with great software. It keeps count of your steps, calories burned and distance traveled among other things. The Fitbit Zip is a clip-on fitness device that’s perfect for barebones tracking and it’s small enough to clip anywhere. So I decided to buy a Fitbit Zip instead, which works with the free Fitbit app available in the App Store in iTunes. I did briefly own a Nike FuelBand fitness tracker that I received as a gift a few years ago, but it wasn’t compatible with our program.

I exercise about three times a week, but I likely wouldn’t track my activities if not for the wellness program OWC offers.

And while it’s bad for the watch industry, the tech-fueled fitness craze overall is a good thing – being healthy is always in fashion.īut personally, I’m not really a part of this craze. There seem to be more fitness trackers than wristwatches lately. If you’re one to follow modern wrist accessory trends (and who isn’t?), you’ve probably noticed that there has been a bit of a fitness craze that has taken over during the past few years.
