Hey hey! How are you? I hope you’re having fun with the day to this point. Right now, I’m re-sharing this submit with up to date data – evaluating two health instruments: the health alta and the apple watch. They now not make the Alta, however the Luxe is analogous right here.
Apple Watch vs. the Fitbit Alta
One thing that has helped rather a lot with my motivation to get shifting and keep lively all through the day has been my Apple Watch. I’m an enormous fan of health trackers – I’ve used a number of Fitbit fashions, the Tom-Tom Spark 3, Garmins, Polars, I’m sort of a nerd about health trackers – and the most recent fave is the Apple Watch. It’s sporty however cute sufficient to put on day by day, and the stats and interface are superb.
Once I converted to the Apple Watch, I’d been sporting a Fitbit for essentially the most half, and most not too long ago the FitBit Alta. I like that the Alta is far smaller than different health trackers and it gave me related stats (plus the center price mannequin tracks your coronary heart price). I’ve been a Fitbit fan for years and have persistently used the Fitbit as an efficient technique to observe my steps and exercise stats. I’d been eyeing the Apple Look ahead to a couple of 12 months, however wasn’t certain if the price can be value switching over.
After we first moved to Valdosta, we attended an public sale for Liv’s new college, and on one of many tables was an Apple Watch. I made a decision to place it into future’s arms. A few mint juleps later, and lurking across the public sale desk, I used to be the proud new proprietor of an Apple Watch (and a pair of Prada sun shades. Yolo. <— do individuals nonetheless keep that? hah)
Right here’s my assessment of the Apple Watch vs. Fitbit Alta:
Interface:
The Fitbit interface is easy. It tells you all the pieces it’s good to know (steps, distance, energy burned) with none further bells and whistles. In the event you log into the app, you may also observe knowledge on sleep, which may be extraordinarily insightful.
The Apple Watch takes issues to the following stage. Your targets for the day are break up into little circles: transfer targets (energy burned), standing (I feel it’s transfer for five minutes of each hour), and exercise (half-hour of exercise per day). It’s SO satisfying to see the circles construct all through the day, and a straightforward technique to look and test the way you’re doing.
Because the Apple Watch is clearly…a watch…you may also change the face to an image in your digital camera, or any from their gallery (a few of them transfer, just like the jellyfish and butterflies). It’s sort of enjoyable to alter the face to Minnie Mouse once we’re at Disney World. 😉
Sleep monitoring:
To be completely trustworthy, I haven’t used this characteristic on the Apple watch. I discover that as a mother, sleep monitoring is without doubt one of the most miserable issues ever. Ignorance is bliss.
I did use this whereas I used to be sporting the Alta, and it was useful to see how a lot deep sleep I used to be getting vs. gentle/interrupted sleep.
Battery life:
That is the place Fitbit wins. My Alta would simply final a couple of days, and my Apple Watch lasts a couple of day and a half. This implies I both should cost it in a single day or take a noon cost break, which is sort of annoying.
Exercise mode:
The exercise tracker is next-level stuff, and one of many causes I LOVE the Apple Watch. You possibly can choose swim, indoor stroll, outside stroll, cycle, spin indoors, or fast begin, and it’ll goal your stats primarily based in your exercise. It additionally tracks coronary heart price, which I discover to be fairly correct. Typically after I get tremendous sweaty it slides round my wrist and doesn’t learn it fairly as effectively. I like with the ability to inform it what I’m doing so it could supplies extra related data. For instance, if I’m exterior, it contains distance and tempo on my stats.
Music:
The Fitbit Cost is far more restricted on this facet so it’s one of many enormous perks of the Apple Watch. It shows the music I’m at the moment taking part in from my telephone, and I can regulate the quantity. That is SO AWESOME whereas I’m instructing a category as a result of I can flip the music down for extra thorough teaching and improve the quantity for an intense a part of the exercise.
The Apple Watch additionally syncs my textual content messages and I can reply the telephone from it (and communicate into the watch). I discover that with these options, I’m not on my telephone practically as a lot. I’m not consistently checking to see if I’ve any missed texts or calls.
Design:
They each have their benefits. The Alta (now Luxe) appears extra indestructible and remains to be small and stylish. You possibly can swap out the Fitbit bands and make it as fancy as you want.
The Apple Watch seems a bit of extra tech-y, however in the long run, it simply seems like a reasonably watch. I like you could swap out the wristbands and alter the watch face.
Conclusion:
I really feel like with anything, it’s important to discover out what works for you and what you like. Once I put on a health tracker, I really feel extra motivated to get in small bits of motion all through the day and actually purpose to hit these 10k steps. The Alta is a superb tracker (and is inexpensive than the Apple Watch), and the Apple Watch supplies a bit of extra perception, settings, and choices. They’re each superior in their very own manner, however for now, I’m utilizing and loving the Apple Watch.
Do you utilize a health tracker? What’s your very favourite? What motion targets do you set for your self every day?
I purpose to hit 10k steps – some days it’s tremendous straightforward and others it’s difficult – and get in my half-hour of motion.
xoxo
Gina