Modern health gadgets: types and uses

Many modern professions involve long periods of immobility at a computer monitor or at a desk. Unfortunately, once fashionable physical culture pauses are a thing of the past. Sometimes a person spends his entire working day without movement. This negatively affects the health of the musculoskeletal system, cardiovascular and other organ systems. Therefore, an increasing number of people are beginning to actively go in for sports, attend fitness clubs, swimming pools, tennis courts, and walk a lot. It is for such active people that modern health gadgets are designed, which make it possible to monitor the general condition, control and change physical activity, build training programs in accordance with the physical capabilities of the user.

Heart rate monitor and fitness bracelet: indispensable assistants in sports

Modern heart rate monitors – these are medical sports devices or, as they are now called – health gadgets that allow you to track your heart rate, as well as many other indicators of the physical condition of the trainee:

• Recording changes in heart rate in response to varying levels of training over a period of time (day/week/month/year);
• Fixes the moment when the training intensity and heart rate go beyond the defined training zone. When the heart rate changes above the level that corresponds to the training zone, the heart rate monitor beeps about this;
• Formation of basic training algorithms in accordance with the state of the person;
• Measure your average, current and maximum heart rate. The accuracy of the measurement results corresponds to the results of the ECG;
• Indicates training laps when total time, specific lap time and calories burned are determined. If the device has the Best Lap function, then the results of the best lap are displayed on the device monitor;
• Depending on the size of the memory, the results of a certain number of workouts are stored, they can be viewed by setting the required date, there is no need to scroll through all the indicators in a row. In some devices, the earliest data is erased as the cells are filled, and there are devices where all results from the moment of use are saved;
• For cycling, improved devices with an increased set of functions are produced – altitude, elevation angle, atmospheric pressure, cadence. For sports running, there may be a built-in GPS sensor.

The heart rate sensor can be attached to the finger, chest, earlobe, forearm.

For stationary workouts (without moving long distances) it is better to use a wired heart rate monitor, as its results are more accurate – it does not record the readings of the devices nearby exercising people.

If you can't use a wired heart rate monitor, then it's best to purchase a digital wireless device that is encrypted and does not receive signals from nearby devices.

Fitness bracelets – these are multifunctional devices – "smart" health gadgets that record various indicators of human activity for the purpose of their subsequent analysis and determination of the intensity, level and duration of the training process.

Main Functions:

• Recording the distance traveled, the number of steps and the user's heart rate;
• Set intermediate goals and final goal to be reached within a certain period of time. The default target is – 10,000 steps per day, which is defined by Japanese researchers as the minimum distance a user must cover. This indicator can be changed in accordance with the physical condition and fitness of the athlete;
• Indicator for fixing the time of walking with different intensity;
• "Smart" an alarm clock that wakes the user up at the most biorhythmic moment by the set wake-up time;
• Stopwatch and clock;
• It is possible to forward SMS messages and calls from the phone to the bracelet, which allows you to control the workflow without interrupting your workout;
• All collected data can be transferred to a PC via USB port for further analysis. Based on the result of this analysis, you can increase or decrease the training intensity.

Where to buy

These and other useful gadgets for health can be selected and purchased on the Med-magazin website of the Vashe Zdorovye network, where numerous models of world manufacturers with a different set of functions and, accordingly, prices are presented.