Fitbit – Modern Activity Tracker

Fitbit is a brand that exists since 2007 and especially for its activity Trackerknown. The company has taken advantage of the fact that an active lifestyle benefits health. With a Fitbit Activity trackers experience users through modern technology and sensor technology how active they really are. This way, the trackers can show their users how active they really are, for example to motivate them to exercise more or improve their performance in sports. Visually, the activity trackers attract attention, but above all through a modern design. Most Fitbit Products come in the form of a wristwatch. Therefore, these activity trackers can also be used inconspicuously and as an accessory at any time. Fitbit divides its product range into the following three categories:

– Fitness for everyday life
– Fitness for active people
– Fitness for peak performance

The first category includes activity trackers that allow you to capture general activities such as the number of steps, the distance covered and the calories burned. Rising in the price range, there is added sensor technology that allows you to record the levels you have mastered and even the sleeping phases. Products like that Fitbit Alta even includes a motivation for movement as well as the function SmartTrack. With the help of SmartTrack, the activity tracker learns for example which exercises are currently being performed in the gym. The device memorizes the movement sequence of the respective exercises and automatically starts the training session in the future. The second category Fitness for active people contains activity trackers, which additionally measure the heart rate and thus are also explicitly suitable for sports or fitness training. Of the Fitbit Blaze, also belonging to the second category, also keeps running routes on request by means of the GPS connection of the smartphone. An absolute all-rounder among the activity trackers and equipped with color display, is the Fitbit Surge. This device belongs to the third category and internalizes all functions already mentioned. For flexibility in design, Fitbit mainly offers alternative bracelets as an accessory. This allows Fitbit users to adapt their trackers to their own style.

The Fitbit app

To take full advantage of all Fitbit features, users install the Fitbit app for the Smartphone. tabletor the PC, With this app Fitbit users get the best insight on previously recorded activities. What the small displays of the activity tracker for the wrist can not show is made perfect with this app. The respective Fitbit Tracker is simply synchronized with the device on which the app is running. Users can create a graphical user interface to display their current progress as well as activities, details of each workout and sleep rhythm. Even competing with friendly Fitbit users and maintaining a food database is possible. Important for syncing with a Fitbit Tracker is that the respective smartphone or tablet has the transmission standard Bluetooth 4.0 and an Internet connection. According to the manufacturer, the activity trackers sync with over 150 leading Android, Windows and iOS smartphones. Alternatively, you can synchronize your computer with Windows Vista or later or Mac OS X 10.6 via USB.