Fine. You didn’t buy a smartwatch. You were never going to anyway. Meet the fitness tracker: a less expensive, more immediately useful tech product that might actually help get your lazy self in shape. Designed to gamify your daily exercise routines, fitness trackers make people do funny, crazy things, like going to sleep at the same minute every night, or taking the long route to the bathroom, just to get in another 20 steps. But hurry! You’ve got two more weeks until all that New Year’s resolution spirit turns into another pack of peanut M&Ms. Read more: 26 Fitness Trackers Ranked from Worst to First | TIME.com
Control a treadmill with Google Glass. Find your fitness age with an "anti-aging" activity-tracking watch. Measure your heart rate variability with a finger cup to see how well you recover from workouts. These are just some of the new ideas on display in the world of fitness and technology at the 2014 International CES. More.
Young teens aren't exactly embracing the government's Let's Move mantra, the latest fitness data suggest. Only 1 in 4 U.S. kids aged 12 to 15 meet the recommendations -- an hour or more of moderate to vigorous activity every day. Read more at Fox News.
They're popular and they get results, but making a good match takes effort. More from WebMD
Ok, so it's 2014 and there are still certain fitness myths that refuse to go away.
1. Unused muscle NEVER turns to fat. Muscle atrophies (gets smaller) when it is not exercised or used. Muscle tissue cells can never turn to fat tissue cells. 2. You could never exercise enough to counterbalance a horrible diet. It would take running 10 miles to start burning off a McDonalds meal. Choose wisely what you eat. "Taking garcinia fruit rind extract doesn't seem to decrease weight, fat breakdown, or energy expenditure in overweight people. There is some mixed evidence that garcinia might help people feel full even when eating less, but it's too early to recommend garcinia for this use." More here.
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