Staying healthy and fit isn’t the easiest of tasks. After all, with fast food restaurants on every corner vying for our attention, and increasingly busy schedules making it more and more difficult to plan out a healthy, three-course meal with all of the essential food groups, the odds are stacked against you. And yet, if it’s difficult enough for the average person to stay healthy, this is even more true for those on the go.
If you travel often, whether abroad or cross-country, you likely know all too well that eating healthy on the move can be downright impossible. Your options are limited: do you eat at the airport, knowing full-well that your meal – made up mostly of sodium, sugars, and processed ingredients – will leave you feeling lethargic and bloated on your flight? Or do you opt for airplane food, which, well, speaks for itself? Neither choice seems very appealing, does it?
There is a way to stay fit and healthy on the move though – fitness tracking devices. If you know where you stand on miles walked, calories burned, heart rate and other vital information, you can better plan for meals, even on the go. Forget about the raw diet or the paleo diet; start thinking of wearable fitness tracking devices as the new diet. You could be reaping the rewards.
Introducing the Newest Must-have Fitness Tracking Devices
What makes fitness tracking devices such great companions for individuals on the move it that they enable people to keep track of their physical activity, no matter where they are. Bouncing from one airport to another can cloud your judgment and leave you feeling fatigued. We’ve all experienced jetlag. With fitness tracking devices that can be worn on your wrist, checking your vitals throughout the day becomes as easy as checking the time on your watch (your fitness tracking device will very likely also be your watch).
The Samsung Gear Fit, for example, seamlessly integrates with a smartphone, and includes a built-in personalized fitness manager to help you monitor, in real-time, the progress and status of your workout, daily routine, or daily goals. Incorporating a heart rate sensor, the Samsung Gear Fit is an incredibly powerful device. Users can judge their performance as they go, based on the device’s Training Effect score. This score adapts to the user’s workout routine, and takes heart beat data, user profile information, and the scope of a person’s physical workout into consideration to give the user a quick score that can be easily checked at any time. All of this from a device that looks and feels just like a digital wristwatch.
Perhaps the best feature of fitness tracking devices like the Gear Fit by Samsung, is that they can be customized to suit your individual needs. There are a whole range of health apps available, and many of them are compatible with these fitness tracking devices. More to the point, these devices already incorporate all of the features you need to monitor your health and daily activity. It’s quite plain to see; for health-conscience individuals, they are terrific tools.
Rethinking What the Everyday Diet Should Be
There are some universal truths regarding what constitutes a healthy diet. Go light on sugars and fats, and heavy on vegetables and other foods high in fiber. Feel free to throw some protein into the mix, but remember that fish and white meat will always be a better option than beef. Those are the basics, and have held true since time immemorial.
But in today’s modern world, when it can be nearly impossible to keep track of all of the calories that are consumed in a day, let alone a week, other considerations must be made. And for this reason, fitness tracking devices seem like an obvious choice for inclusion into your “everyday diet.” Just as a scale is probably a part of your daily or weekly routine, a fitness device is the next logical step in today’s connected, so-called “Internet of Things” culture. Why? Well, because they allow you to stay healthy on the move, and in some cases, look good doing it.
In addition to wearable tech, there are also countless apps and programs that people can download and take advantage of to live a healthier, happier life. Check out some of those apps here. Do you have a favorite app or program that is coupled with a wearable tech device? We would love to hear from you.
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Guest Author:Jennifer Thayer is a freelance writer who enjoys covering everything from the hottest tech gadgets to the latest industry news. Follow her on Twitter to see what tech coverage she shares next.
