Griffin Adidas miCoach armband
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If you're looking for something that'll hold your iPhone while you're exercising and keep it safe, the Griffin Adidas miCoach Armband is your saviour. The light-weight armband has a built-in key holder, and it'll also give your iPhone protection against water and sweat with its 'touch-through' screen. This screen also lets you use the touchscreen of your iPhone, and the protective case still has ports for your headphone socket. |
The App: Adidas miCoach
The ideal app for the Griffin Armband is miCoach, free in the App Store or Google Play Store. With GPS tracking it tells you exactly where you are, and real-time voice coaching motivates you though your workout. Pre-loaded training plans are designed for specific sports, to ensure you’re improving your fitness no matter what you’re doing. With measurements for your distance, pace, calories burned, and elapsed time, you’ll know exactly how your training is going. |
Ideal for:
Basic measurement of your
workouts for pleasure
and medium fitness
improvements. |
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Fitbit Ultra Tracker
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Looking for something that’ll give you more help with weight loss? The Fitbit Ultra Tracker is a portable activity tracker that’ll also track your sleep. So small it’ll fit in a pocket or can be attached to a shirt or bra, using a special 3D accelerometer and altimeter it gives more accurate readings than pedometers. The display shows how many calories you’re burning or steps you’ve taken in real-time, making motivation easy. You can track your daily steps, stairs climbed, distance, calories burned, activity level and record your vertical rises. Worried about sleep? Slot the Fitbit Tracker into the wristband and log how long and how well you slept. |
The App: Fitbit tracker and Calorie Tracker
The Fitbit app is the perfect companion to the Fitbit Tracker, free in the App Store or Google Play Store. It allows you to log the foods you’ve eaten, the activities you’ve been doing and track your weight – all on the go. The Food Plan section is perfect for helping you lose weight. Set a daily calorie target and the Fitbit app provides a food plan. Even better, the calorie target will automatically update based on how active you are throughout the day. Of course, you can also view your stats – steps, calories, weight, body fat and more. |
Ideal for:
Keeping track of daily activities,
losing weight and reviewing your
sleep. |
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Scosche myTrek Wireless Pulse Monitor
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Really into fitness and want to track your workouts with real depth and accuracy? The Scosche myTrek Wireless Pulse Monitor turns your smartphone into a sports computer. Wirelessly connect myTrek to your smartphone via Bluetooth and strap the myTrek armband to your forearm and it’ll monitor your pulse for super accurate fitness measurements. Real-time data is then fed to your phone, allowing you to track pulse, calories burned, and with a 3G internet connection your speed, distance and it’ll even display your route on a map. The built-in music player includes buttons to control volume up/down, play/pause and previous/next track, so you can control your tunes as you train. |
The App: Scosche myTrek
To really get the most out of myTrek, the Scosche myTrek app is a must, free in the App Store and Google Play Store. Along with logging your workout stats and displaying them on your smartphone in real-time, the app lets you control your workouts. Customisable training sessions allow you to adjust your activity, alter your target training zone and the type of workout, all on the go. Control your music and set up audio vocal alerts to keep you in the perfect training zone. You can then review your workout stats in numeric or graph form, and track your training progress using the integrated calendar. |
Ideal for:
The most accurate fitness
measurement and review for the
best fitness improvements. |
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