the hardest part of sticking to a diet and exercise plan is keeping track of
your daily activities and calorie burn who am I kidding the hardest part is
obviously staying away from those industrial siiz boxes of donuts at
crispy K cream or Tim Hortons for our Canadian viewers but even so keeping an
eye on your workout goals and nutrition can be quite challenging which is why
companies have tried to capitalize on the growing wearable Market by selling
fitness trackers that you can take anywhere and wear on your wrist these
are very versatile multi-purpose devices that do everything from keep track of
what you're doing cardio telling you how much fat you've burned off compared to
last night's Big Mac and even warn you to get the heck out of the sun if you're
exercising outside for too long so you don't end up looking like a lobster so
how does something that size do this much stuff well inside your average
fitness tracker you'll find tons of components some of which are standard
fair in smartphones such as accelerometers that allow the tracker to
tell how many steps you're taking and a GPS to track distances
but unlike your smartphone some fitness trackers especially nicer ones have more
advanced motion sensors that are not only more accurate but can use
positional data to determine exactly what exercise you're doing that way it
can remember exactly which one you've done and track your workouts
automatically but what about heart rate tracking this is important to different
people that want to get their heart beating at a certain rate for
conditioning or weight loss some trackers use light to figure out how
hard your heart is working they shine light at your skin that's powerful
enough to light up your capillaries those are the little blood vessels close
to the skin surface and figure out how much blood is Flowing based on how much
light is reflected back higher end models even measure your Skin's
electrical impedance which fluctuates based on how fast your heart beats this
is the same Tech used in those heart rate monitors on gym treadmills as well
as those electronic fat percentage meters that tell you how bad you should
feel about about yourself additional sensors measure everything from
perspiration levels to wrist movements in order to track sleep patterns and
give recommendations as to how you can improve your sleep habits so you have
enough energy to actually drag yourself to the gym the next day as well as
special ultraviolet sensors that only track UV light so your tracker won't
scream a sunburn warning at you just because you've been sitting inside a
bright room but as cool as all of this sounds one key feature of many current
fitness trackers still has some room for improvement calorie tracking real
calorimeters that can give you a precise measurement of how many calories you've
burned are extremely expensive so wearable trackers use user input data
like age weight sex along with the data from motion and temperature sensors to
spit out an estimate although these estimates can still give you a good idea
of your actual calorie burn they along with many other Fitness tracker metrics
that we have discussed especially stuff like step Counting should be taken with
a grain of salt especially as they can vary quite a bit between different
models the good news though is that in a recent study it was suggested that
fitness trackers tend to underestimate how many calories you've burned so if
you're trying to burn as much as possible maybe don't feel too bad about
that extra McDouble you ate in the parking lot when you thought no one was
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app lets you take a picture of your receipts and it pretty much handles all
the rest of it getting started on freshbooks is extremely simple even if
you're not a numbers person and freshbooks says especially if you're not
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