Apart from a blend of right nutrition and regular exercise, positivity too is a vital ingredient to attain the ‘fit body’. With technology at its peak, we have specific gears as well that help motivate us and track our fitness progress. Most of the Fitness experts themselves have a ‘rags to riches’ fitness story and are proof that if one is determined nothing can come in way to becoming a fitter you.

Fitness Gears

Fitness gears are the in-thing today and one needs to be very careful about what one chooses to monitor their personal fitness space. There are many things that are to be thought upon before freezing on the Fitness trackers; like your mode of working out, do you run trails for hours at a time or do you just want a reminder to get up and get kicking!

Tracker Purpose

Some trackers are primarily designed to provide key insights on your health, such as your sleep habits and stress levels, while others are geared more toward helping you improve your athletic performance. Irrespective of your needs, there is no dearth of fitness trackers to jumpstart your regime and optimize your workouts.

So, it is most important to consideration how you plan to use a fitness tracker and which type of data you’re most interested in. For example if you’re primarily interested in sports metrics, choose a tracker that gives you specific sports modes or functions apt for your fitness routine. Swimmers usually go for such trackers. On the other hand, if you’re more curious about health metrics, you’ll likely want to choose a wearable that offers continuous heart rate monitoring and sleep tracking.

Most Popular Fitness & Tone Trackers

You can try a couple of Trackers to finalize the one that best fits your need. Here are a couple of budgeted trackers that are most effective and sought after…

Halo Fitness & Tone Tracker – This is a small, display-free device fitted into a fabric band that you can wear on your wrist. The Halo collects additional health data that is shockingly intimate. Most notably, the app analyzes pictures of you to measure your body fat percentage. Also, the Halo's microphone records snippets of your conversations to interpret the emotions conveyed in the tone of your speaking voice.

Fitbit Charge 5 – This is an advanced fitness & health tracker with stress management tools, an on-wrist ECG app and more. It is vital to know how stressed an individual is. The Fitbit Charge 5 offers an ECG app and a new electro dermal activity (EDA) tracker. The ECG tracker will allow you to check for atrial fibrillations (an irregular heartbeat) while the EDA test will look for sweat secretion — which can be a marker of stress.

Whoop Strap 4.0 – This is a new and interesting entry in the Fitness and Tone Tracker market. This new device is smaller, smarter, and designed with new biometric tracking, including skin temperature, blood oxygen, and more. It is the most popular screen-less fitness tracker. First and foremost this device measures oxygen saturation, skin temperature, and heart rate characteristics such as resting heart rate, heart rate variation and current heart rate. The Whoop app then compiles these to present an overall fitness profile. Athletes find this device most suited.

Garmin Instinct Solar – If you are one of those who love camping, trail running, and paddling; and require GPS support, this sports watch will delight you completely.) is my favorite sports watch. The latest one also has a pulse oximeter to track your blood-oxygen levels while sleeping and the Garmin-specific Body Battery metric to tell you how pumped up you are for the day. The best part is the solar charging with a watch lens made of electron-absorbing Power Glass.

Oura Ring Gen3 – This helps to access the three basic Oura scores, which are your Daily Readiness, Sleep, and Activity scores. It is especially recommended for women who want to track their menstrual cycles, since its sensitive enough to pick up the half-degree temperature drop right before the period starts.

Components of the Fitness Tracking Apps

Not getting into hard core technology, but identifying the basic hardware in fitness Wearable devices is that they contain specially designed tiny microcomputers, known as SoCs (System-on-a-Chip), like ‘Curie’ module from Intel or Snapdragon Wear from Qualcomm. They basically function with low-power motion sensors and a battery which can last for weeks while continuously monitoring different activities and health parameters of your body. The real-time activity data to can be sent to other devices through wireless technology like Bluetooth.

Sensors in Fitness Trackers

The most important sensors to track movement are the 3-axis accelerometer and gyroscope. While the accelerometer is intended for monitoring speed, the gyroscope tracks the position of a device or a fitness band, its rotation and orientation in space.

GPS sensors on the other hand monitor the position of a wearable fitness device or a smartphone and are used to track location and estimate the covered distance.

Altimeter is a sensor used to track altitude. Technically, it doesn’t measure the altitude in itself, but tracks atmospheric pressure to calculate the altitude above the sea level. The higher you climb above the sea level, the lower the atmospheric pressure.

Temperature sensors – to determine work efficiency, body heat release needs to be measures. Temperature sensors are specifically designed for measuring the release of bodily heat.

Skin galvanic reaction sensor is another type of appliance used for measuring body temperature. This sensor type also helps to estimate the stress level and the overall state of a person’s health.

Heart rate monitors – a very important gadget. This device is mounted into wristbands, and the sensors use optical rays to measure the user’s heart rate by tracking the pulsation of blood through the person’s skin, and counting the constrictions of the heart muscle.

Summing up, while fitness trackers are viewed as personal health management tools, the main purpose of these devices is focused on physical wellness: counting daily steps, tracking sleep, and encouraging more movement. Today, fitness trackers are integrated with mood tracking devices for a more holistic approach to health and wellness. Thus, the Fitness Trackers today are a unique combo to measure body fitness and tone or mindfulness.