Years ago to keep count of how much you walked was by using a pedometer that was able to tell you how many steps you took in a given day. Now days this process has been modernized by devices or gadgets that you put on your wrist or you carry in you pocket or belt.

 

These devices called activity trackers can not only tell you how many steps you took but in addition they can count how many calories you have used, what is your blood pressure, your heart rate and even can tell you how well you slept the night before. Some of these small digital devices can transmit this data to other digital devices such as smart cell phones, tablets etc.

 

Activity trackers have been found to be beneficial in monitoring patents that had heart surgery and need to have walk exercise to recover sooner. The activity tracker seems to motivate them to do this. Also people that have some kind of chronicle condition such as high blood pressure or hypertension that needs daily monitoring at home can benefit from activity tracker to monitor their heart rate on the road.

 

Another benefit of the activity tracker is that it can help you control your diet and calories intake. Some of the activity trackers have a food log where you can enter what you eat to see how your calorie intake stacks up against calories burned. There are some activity trackers that plays music as you exercise and recognizes which songs make you work the hardest.

 

Everybody knows that they have to burn more calories than take in but nobody realy knows how many calories they have burned. With the activity tracker you will have a tool thay by monitoring your physical activity they can gauge calories burned.