How Smart Watch Helps You Track Your Health?

Smartwatches have garnered a considerable amount of attention in recent years. It is mainly due to its health benefits, some of which include tracking your workouts, heart rates, walks, sleep, and so forth.

With these features, smartwatches have certainly become irresistible for everyone, especially fitness freaks.

Let us understand how these watches can help in monitoring health. Here, take a look:

 

1.   Tracks your step

Smartwatches have built-in pedometers, which makes it easy to keep a track of the number of steps taken. The data of these steps are recorded whenever the watch is worn and powered up. This enables it to trace whether you are walking forward, running fast, or even standing still.

 

2.   Monitors your sleep

Smartwatches, when worn during night-time, can track your sleep patterns. They can let you find out how many hours of sleep you’re getting and how many hours of the day you’re sleeping uninterrupted. These records, which are stored in the watch, help you identify your patterns and set goals to improve the quality as well as quantity of sleep.

 

3.   Monitors your vitals closely

Another great benefit of smartwatches is that it closely monitors your vitals like heart rate.  This is simply because these smartwatches with an in-built sensor can easily measure the heart rate whenever you’re resting or exercising.

 

4.   Sets medication reminders

For patients with chronic conditions that require frequent medications, it’s important to take them regularly as doctor’s prescription. While they do their best to adhere to their medication schedule, they might also end skipping a dose or forgetting to refill them. Under such a scenario, a smartwatch comes to the rescue. It helps set reminders that automate and track medications.

 

5.   Encourages goal setting

Many smartwatches have built-in apps that encourage goal-setting abilities. For instance, if you want to set a goal to walk a certain number of steps, or sleep a certain number of hours, the goal tracker in your watch will easily show you how you’re doing on your goal today and over time.

 

6.   Sends workout reminders

The advantage of having a reminder on a smartwatch rather than on a smartphone is that it’s difficult to dismiss. Yes, that’s right. While it is easy to miss a reminder notification if you don’t have your phone on you, a smartwatch will vibrate on your wrist until you know it’s time to hit the gym.

All in all, smartwatches are extremely helpful in multiple ways. It is a great health monitoring companion.