Fitness Trackers

  • TechnologyYahoo Life UK

    Taking your health journey up a notch? This top-rated fitness tracker is currently under £25

    Accurately record all-day activities like steps, calories burned and miles walked.

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  • NewsYahoo Life UK

    Could fitness apps encouraging you to walk 10,000 steps a day be doing more harm than good?

    Could fitness apps encouraging you to walk 10,000 steps be doing more harm than good? “8,000 steps down, only 2,000 to go,” people groan as they check their fitness tech over coffee, lunch, cocktails. Dr Greg Hager, a professor of computer science from Johns Hopkins University in the US, maintains ‘very few’ of the estimated 165,000 available healthcare apps are based on scientific evidence.

  • NewsAlice Sholl

    Fitness trackers might not help you lose weight, study finds

    If you’re a die-hard fitness tracker fan, we’re afraid we have some bad news: They might not be helping you to lose weight at all. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that instead of motivating us to do more exercise every day, fitness trackers may give us a false sense of security and de-motivate us. It found that - as is often the case with these things - there’s no shortcut to getting healthy and fit, and it’s actually more effective to follow

  • TechnologyAOL

    Six best activity trackers on the market

    Whether you're a serious runner or just want to increase your step count to burn more calories, an activity tracker can help you set goals and keep you motivated. Most trackers count steps, distance, calories burnt and some tell you how well

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