Improve Your Health With Fitness Trackers Over the past decade, wearable technology has seen an incredible boom. Wearables like Fitbits and the Apple Watch used to be nothing more than glorified step counters. Since their debut, though, fitness trackers and wearables have gone through various updates that have made them essential to the fitness community as a whole. This is because wearing a fitness tracker can add great benefits to your lifestyle and can even improve your daily life.
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cutest baby, but because I live in the same town as Matthew Wright — a coffee magician. Matt runs Lanoca Coffee here in Farmville and teaches coffee classes to locals. He has roasted beans for 10 years, but his love of the brew goes back a lot further. “I’ve been a coffee drinker since I was about 4 or 5 years old,” Matt says. “My great-aunt Nina lived on a little dirt road in Laurinburg called Lanoca Avenue … She let me have
HEART RATE A built-in heart rate sensor is possibly the most vital feature available in almost every wearable device and fitness tracker. There are many exercise machines that track your heart rate, but those are only useful if you know your resting heart rate. With a fitness tracker — whether you’re sleeping, sitting, running, or exercising — you will know exactly what your heart rate is and what’s normal for you. This is important because it will help you notice irregularities so you can better understand your heart health.
some of her stovetop percolator coffee when I was a little kid. We’d go to the grocery store — A&P or Winn-Dixie — and buy a bag of Eight O’Clock Coffee. We’d grind it there in the store, and that’s where I fell in love with coffee and the smell of it — there in the grocery store and on the car ride back to her house.” Some of Matt’s favorite memories are of Saturday nights with Aunt Nina watching “The Lawrence Welk Show” with mugs of black coffee and a sleeve of saltine crackers between them.
SLEEP MONITORING Many fitness trackers give you insight into your sleep routine and will even track your movements so you can find out if you were tossing and turning all night. Others go further by detecting your body temperature, heart rate, and energy expenditure. You can use this information to create a sleep schedule that works for you or make any adjustments to your sleeping conditions if they are preventing you from getting a good night’s sleep.
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FUTURE UPDATES Fitness trackers and wearable devices are still a relatively new technology. Tech companies are continually updating them and introducing additional features. For example, new wearables that are hitting the market can track blood sugar, which could be incredibly beneficial to those with diabetes. Wearable tech will continue to evolve — only time will tell what features and functions companies will unveil next.
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