Hey hey! How are you? I hope you’re having fun with the day to this point. In the present day, I’m re-sharing this put up 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 so much with my motivation to get shifting and keep energetic 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 form of a nerd about health trackers – and the most recent fave is the Apple Watch. It’s sporty however cute sufficient to put on each day, and the stats and interface are wonderful.
Once I converted to the Apple Watch, I’d been carrying a Fitbit for probably the most half, and most lately the FitBit Alta. I like that the Alta is way smaller than different health trackers and it gave me related stats (plus the guts charge mannequin tracks your coronary heart charge). I’ve been a Fitbit fan for years and have persistently used the Fitbit as an efficient option to monitor my steps and exercise stats. I’d been eyeing the Apple Look ahead to a few 12 months, however wasn’t certain if the price can be price switching over.
After we first moved to Valdosta, we attended an public sale for Liv’s new faculty, and on one of many tables was an Apple Watch. I made a decision to place it into future’s fingers. 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 folks nonetheless keep that? hah)
Right here’s my overview of the Apple Watch vs. Fitbit Alta:
Interface:
The Fitbit interface is easy. It tells you the whole lot it’s worthwhile to know (steps, distance, energy burned) with none further bells and whistles. When you log into the app, you can too monitor information on sleep, which might 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 simple option to look and test the way you’re doing.
For the reason that Apple Watch is clearly…a watch…you can too 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 form of enjoyable to alter the face to Minnie Mouse after we’re at Disney World. 😉
Sleep monitoring:
To be completely sincere, I haven’t used this characteristic on the Apple watch. I discover that as a mother, sleep monitoring is among the most miserable issues ever. Ignorance is bliss.
I did use this whereas I used to be carrying the Alta, and it was useful to see how a lot deep sleep I used to be getting vs. mild/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 few day and a half. This implies I both need to cost it in a single day or take a noon cost break, which is form 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, out of doors stroll, cycle, spin indoors, or fast begin, and it’ll goal your stats primarily based in your exercise. It additionally tracks coronary heart charge, which I discover to be fairly correct. Generally once I get tremendous sweaty it slides round my wrist and doesn’t learn it fairly as nicely. I like with the ability to inform it what I’m doing so it may possibly 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 side so it’s one of many large perks of the Apple Watch. It shows the music I’m presently enjoying from my telephone, and I can regulate the quantity. That is SO AWESOME whereas I’m educating 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 converse 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 slightly extra tech-y, however in the long run, it simply seems like a reasonably watch. I like that you could swap out the wristbands and alter the watch face.
Conclusion:
I really feel like with the rest, it’s important to discover out what works for you and what you favor. 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 intention to hit these 10k steps. The Alta is a good tracker (and is cheaper than the Apple Watch), and the Apple Watch supplies slightly 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 intention 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
