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Best smartwatches for fitness in 2024
If you’re trying to get fit, wearables can help - these are the best smartwatches for fitness
Pursuing a healthier lifestyle is a commitment that won't always feel exciting. Adding a little bit of tech, like a smartwatch, can offer some motivation with some fitness tracker benefits. Modern smartwatches cover metrics that make it easier to track all your workout sessions and keep a closer eye on your vitals. The idea is to stay on track with your health and fitness goals, monitoring your progress on the watch and dedicated mobile app.
Fitbit Premium review: Dubious value at a questionable price
Google makes some odd choices when choosing what to hide behind its paywall
What do you get when you buy Google’s flagship Pixel Watch 2 wearable? On the hardware side, you get a vastly improved watch over the Pixel Watch, which offers many new features, including new health sensors and an updated charging mechanism. It’s one of the best Android-powered wearables, but hardware is only half the battle.
Having the right music on hand for motivation can be key to getting a good workout. While you can certainly use a portable speaker when you’re going through a yoga session at home, you'll need something a little easier to carry, not to mention a little more private, for most types of exercise. For that, you should consider using some of the best workout earbuds.
Best smart home gym equipment in 2024
Tone your muscles and improve strength with this top-rated smart home gym equipment
The best smart home gym equipment can help you achieve all your fitness goals without ever stepping into a gym. Depending on the fitness equipment chosen, you can do at-home cardio workouts, strength training, rowing, and other exercises to keep you fit and healthy.
JLab Epic Air Sport review: Big on features, small on ears
These $99, often discounted earbuds are filled with plenty of features, making them a great fitness set if they fit on your ears
Fitness earbuds walk a thin line. They must be compact enough not to impact your workout and sturdy enough not to fly off your ear during a particularly enthusiastic deadlift. The JLab Epic Air Sport earbuds toe this thin pretty well, providing a comfortable fit without sacrificing the tech features everyday users have become accustomed to in their audio-providing devices. That, combined with a long battery life and good all-around audio quality, make these earbuds more than worthy of consideration for your fitness playlist needs.
How to change fitness goals on an Apple Watch
The Apple Watch makes it easy to set simple daily fitness goals for health improvement. Here's how it works
Apple's Activity app (a.k.a. the Fitness app) is deeply integrated into the Apple ecosystem, capable of storing tons of helpful data for you, your trainer, and your doctor. The fitness app pairs especially well with an Apple Watch. The latest models have extensive sensors to keep track of your heart rate, steps counted, and the oxygen in your blood. Tracking your numbers can help you get your resting heart rate down, get your cardio heart rate up, and increase your calories burned, among other smartwatch-oriented goals.
What is Health Connect and how do I use it?
What you need to know about the local Android service that connects all your fitness apps
The best health and fitness apps come in different forms and shapes, performing better in some functions than others. When you use more than one, keeping your health data in sync can be a hassle, often with no central place to collect it all. Google's new Health Connect service aims to fix that. It offers a single, streamlined hook that all health apps can use, making it easy for them to share data.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 and 6 Classic are hands-down our favorite Wear OS watches, and they're capable fitness trackers. If you have a recent Galaxy Watch and the Peloton app, your wearable can do more during your workout than log a stationary bike session. Here's how to pair your Galaxy Watch with your Peloton bike, treadmill, rower, or mobile app to get the most out of both.
This highly-rated smart scale is down to just $18 at Amazon
Upgrade your old bathroom scale today and save 49%
Staying healthy and exercising is crucial to living a happy life, and many people work out with weights or with larger machines like treadmills to stay in shape. When it comes to equipment, your old bathroom scale might get overlooked, but it can be a key to your fitness goals.
Withings U-Scan is a golden opportunity to smarten up your toilet with health insights
The new smart toilet add-on promises a stream of untapped data
Withings is making a big splash at CES 2023. The company behind some of our favorite health and fitness gadgets is debuting a Wi-Fi powered urinalysis device slated to hit store shelves later this year. According to a spokesperson, the device was developed after noticing that urine was an “underestimated stream of health data.”
This fully cuffless blood pressure monitor connects to your Android phone
The monitor looks a lot like a classic SpO2 meter for your finger
You may not have heard of Valencell before, but it’s the company behind many health sensors in all kinds of Android smartwatches and fitness trackers, helping you measure your heart rate and more while working out. During CES 2023, the company decided to leap out of the business-to-business market and introduce a product for consumers with its own branding. The company revealed a new health device that can connect to your phone and measure your blood pressure on your fingertip, all without requiring a bulky and uncomfortable cuff.
Withings Body+ smart scale review: A stylish companion to track your body composition
You shouldn't have to choose between beauty and brains
Setting fitness targets and defining a new, healthier routine isn’t too hard. What’s more demanding is staying on top of these goals and making sure you stick to your new lifestyle in the long run. Thankfully, there are different ways you can ensure you’re following your new objectives with the help of dedicated health and fitness apps and smart fitness trackers.
Amazfit GTR 4 review: Too extra
When having every option ever is too much of a bad thing, not a good thing
Amazfit's GTR 4 could have been an incredible smartwatch, but its mind-numbing user interface and sloppy companion app make messing with this device a chore, and I can't emphasize this any stronger.
Get ahead of those holiday pounds by scoring a deal on these Garmin smartwatches
Chase the gravy train — don't let it run you over
We're well into November and any whiff of the month will tell you that Black Friday sales are due — even if it isn't Black Friday. So, if you're in search for a fitness tracker, a dash cam, a GPS for your bike, or an indoor bike trainer, Garmin has some holiday deals for you.
Redmi's new Smart Band looks a heck of a lot like the Mi Band 6
Just in time to follow up on last year's model
Xiaomi's Redmi sub-brand is about to add yet another model to its Smart Band lineup. We know that the company is preparing to launch what is called the Redmi Smart Band Pro, which should serve as the follow-up to last year's Redmi Smart Band. It hasn't been announced yet, but its name and official press photos have been leaked in advance.
Hot new renders show off Samsung's Galaxy Watch4 in all its rotating bezel-less glory
Along with a new body fat tracking feature
At this point, it seems like anyone interested in picking up a smartwatch is waiting eagerly for the Galaxy Watch4. Samsung's wearable has been leaked and rumored countless times this year, even before the company teamed up with Google to help reinvent Wear OS. Thanks to a couple of new leaks, we're getting our best look yet at the Watch4, as well as some of its potential fitness capabilities.
Fitbit adding 2FA, because your health is no one's business but yours
Unfortunately it's not showing up in the app yet, at least for me
It's been more than a year since many of us got more acquainted with our webcams than we ever wanted to be. You've used the excess of personal time to invest in your personal health, right? Right? Well whether you have or haven't, keeping your health info to yourself is probably a good call. To that end, Fitbit now supports two-factor authentication (2FA) for its user accounts.
Strava's latest update cleans up its messy maps
An all-new look to help make space for upcoming features
Strava is one of the most popular fitness apps on Android. Perfect for running, cycling, and swimming, the app has more than 10 million installs on the Play Store, and it's easy to see why. Strava's development team has added a ton of new features and functions to the app over the last few years, which has made the interface a bit clunky and crowded. Thankfully, the UI is getting a complete redesign to help clean up the experience.
Fitbit's next tracker looks like it could be its most stylish to date
The Fitbit Luxe slaps some premium material on an old design
It's been a busy few months for Fitbit. Even if the company has had any major product launches since the Sense and Versa 3 arrived on store shelves last fall, plenty has changed in that small amount of time. Last November, its wearables finally gained support for Assistant, a move made possible by Google's acquisition of the company. Regulators approved that deal back in January, and now, Fitbit might be ready to launch one of its first trackers after being acquired. If you were expecting some kind of high-end smartwatch, however, prepare to be disappointed.
The Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 ups the budget fitness tracking game once again
Say hello to an all-screen front and SpO2 tracking
Xiaomi's Mi Bands are known and loved for their incredible value, and today, the company is raising the bar yet again. It has just launched the Mi Smart Band 6 during its Mi 11 Ultra launch event, and it's quite the upgrade over its predecessor, sporting a 50% bigger display stretching across the whole front and SpO2 tracking.