Wearables now taking over the Fitness Industry

 

Every new year, millions of people round the world take resolutions for their fitness goals. Some plan their diets well enough to achieve their fitness target in their desired time frame. While others opt for the gyms, jogging or early morning exercises and yogas. But these schedules are not followed in most of the cases for more than a week or two.

It has been second year in a row where wearable technology has made its special place in the world of fitness nazis. These wearables including Watches and fitbits are now being used to track an array of health activity including pulse rate, heart rate, sleep, steps detection and much more.

What role does wearables have played in the lives of people?

As per statistics, the wearable fitness devices can exceed $4 billion in sales this year. As we know that in today’s world, these devices are almost everywhere. Not only the one’s personal use but people are looking forward to these devices even for their pets. Thanks to these technologies for the evolution of the health and wellness industry.

These wearable tracking devices offer one to be a part of a health-conscious online communities. It is also a convenient way to measure many types of health-related data. But after using these advanced technologies, what one should ask themselves is that whether you are in control of their health and activity tracking device, or it is the device that is controlling you.

Evolution of the wearables technology

Today, wearable fitness tracking devices have made huge strides. It features a sleek design that easily aligns with the user’s daily wardrobe. The popularity of these devices is further increased due to its stylish appearance resembling a watch or a bracelet.

Earlier fitness trackers were nothing but a kind of pedometer to track the number of steps. But now it has advanced to a great extend. Some also offers non-fitness tracking capabilities to improve overall quality of our lives, like real time notifications of incoming texts, calls and emails. All these health data collected by wearable technology can be used to inform the user about their current fitness level and help them make healthier lifestyle choices.

So all the wearable technologies are including activity trackers, smart watches, heart rate monitors, GPS tracking devices, and smart eye glasses. Some of the lates such fitness and activity trackers includes Misfit, Garmin, EFOSMH, Pebble Time, Juboury, Samsung, Basis, Jawbone, Fitbit, and iWatch.It is predicted that the sales of Apple iWatch may exceed to 485 million devices by the end of year 2018. Smart Glasses are predicted to get $1.5 billion of sales, and Smart fabric and interactive textiles seems to be approaching $2.6 billion by 2017. This shows the advancement of wearable technology in the next decade.

How LetsNurture can help you?

LetsNurture has an expert team of developers for wearable technology. If you are looking any kind of wearable app development, you are just a mail away. Drop a line on info@letsnurture.com and you can also receive a free quote for the same.