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the hardest part of sticking to a diet and exercise plan is keeping track of

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your daily activities and calorie burn who am I kidding the hardest part is

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obviously staying away from those industrial siiz boxes of donuts at

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crispy K cream or Tim Hortons for our Canadian viewers but even so keeping an

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eye on your workout goals and nutrition can be quite challenging which is why

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companies have tried to capitalize on the growing wearable Market by selling

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fitness trackers that you can take anywhere and wear on your wrist these

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are very versatile multi-purpose devices that do everything from keep track of

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what you're doing cardio telling you how much fat you've burned off compared to

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last night's Big Mac and even warn you to get the heck out of the sun if you're

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exercising outside for too long so you don't end up looking like a lobster so

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how does something that size do this much stuff well inside your average

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fitness tracker you'll find tons of components some of which are standard

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fair in smartphones such as accelerometers that allow the tracker to

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tell how many steps you're taking and a GPS to track distances

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but unlike your smartphone some fitness trackers especially nicer ones have more

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advanced motion sensors that are not only more accurate but can use

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positional data to determine exactly what exercise you're doing that way it

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can remember exactly which one you've done and track your workouts

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automatically but what about heart rate tracking this is important to different

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people that want to get their heart beating at a certain rate for

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conditioning or weight loss some trackers use light to figure out how

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hard your heart is working they shine light at your skin that's powerful

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enough to light up your capillaries those are the little blood vessels close

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to the skin surface and figure out how much blood is Flowing based on how much

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light is reflected back higher end models even measure your Skin's

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electrical impedance which fluctuates based on how fast your heart beats this

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is the same Tech used in those heart rate monitors on gym treadmills as well

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as those electronic fat percentage meters that tell you how bad you should

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feel about about yourself additional sensors measure everything from

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perspiration levels to wrist movements in order to track sleep patterns and

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give recommendations as to how you can improve your sleep habits so you have

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enough energy to actually drag yourself to the gym the next day as well as

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special ultraviolet sensors that only track UV light so your tracker won't

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scream a sunburn warning at you just because you've been sitting inside a

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bright room but as cool as all of this sounds one key feature of many current

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fitness trackers still has some room for improvement calorie tracking real

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calorimeters that can give you a precise measurement of how many calories you've

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burned are extremely expensive so wearable trackers use user input data

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like age weight sex along with the data from motion and temperature sensors to

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spit out an estimate although these estimates can still give you a good idea

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of your actual calorie burn they along with many other Fitness tracker metrics

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that we have discussed especially stuff like step Counting should be taken with

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a grain of salt especially as they can vary quite a bit between different

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models the good news though is that in a recent study it was suggested that

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fitness trackers tend to underestimate how many calories you've burned so if

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you're trying to burn as much as possible maybe don't feel too bad about

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that extra McDouble you ate in the parking lot when you thought no one was

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