The Best Workout Watches
Watches made for more.
Having technology on your wrist has become a growing norm in today’s fitness craving culture. Over the recent years we have seemed to evolve more and more towards prioritizing our health and fitness by utilizing technology and information. We love to track fitness. Fitness watches make training, exercising, or even walking FUN! Why? Because it becomes a competition. It becomes a game, a game in which you are trying to beat yourself every single day.
If you are new to the fitness watch world, there are a few things to note when choosing a watch for you.
Monitoring Heart Rate - You obviously want something that will monitor your heart rate while you are wearing it. You want the watch to show you your workout heart rate as well as your resting heart rate and you want it to be accurate. The more accurate the heart rate monitor, the better decisions you can make during your training and the more accurate your calories burned will be.
Tracking Calories Burned - Many people like to know how many calories they are burning throughout the day as well as given throughout one episode of training. Having this aspect creates a fun challenge for you everyday to burn more each day as well as compare training intensities effect of caloric burn.
Watch Compatibility & Battery Life - Understanding the watch compatibilities is going to be important because you want to know if the watch works well with your phone. There are also some watches that struggle more with 3rd party apps and will operate at slower speeds when downloading them. Lastly, having a watch that is going to die everyday can be frustrating. It is frustrating when you need to be wearing the watch for it to collect data yet it dies so quickly and spends a lot of time on the charger.
The biggest questions to ask yourself is “What is important to me? What kind of training are you going to be doing?” Do you need something that is compatible with an android? Or something that can also track sleep? There are many great fitness watches out there, make sure you are buying the one that best suits you and your lifestyle.