Wearable technology: making it work with your clients

Wearable technology has become a forefront tool worn on the body and designed not to interfere with the body during exercise. They provide gamification features and important data with a great implementation in fitness and health care. Wearables confirm a prominent effect on easing fitness activities and attaining health goals. Technology is a vital aspect of the fitness industry in clients’ progress and management of personal trainers.

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Whether you walk, run, row, do yoga, or hike, you need to keep a record of your exercise program. Individuals use wearable technology hoping for better outcomes but they get data they did not expect. That’s where personal training chips in to help the client to set and meet their goals. Here are some guides to understand the use of the devices and track changes in the progress or decline over time.

Focus on the progress of wearables rather than accuracy

Wearable devices can help your clients to track their progress even though the numbers are not that much accurate. The numbers in a Fitbit on measuring your heart rate and step may not be accurate but it helps the client to know whether the levels of activities are declining or increasing. Using these records to identify the trend instead of exact numbers will help both you and your client to incorporate wearable technology into your training schedule. Fitness technology can give clients better outcomes when they have professionals who guide them to meet their goals.

Tracked goals are better and tracking is good

When you incorporate wearables into your fitness plans, your clients will not just understand their exercise but will get actual set goals from you and work to meet them over time. Tracking progress every day increases motivation and recommends various routines and exercises like weight training, hydration tracking levels, plotting your daily goals, and calculating the figures based on your workout. Connecting these wearable devices helps to communicate with your clients and keep data throughout the training session.

Track all your customer desire

Wearable keeps tons of information. The data will give you insights that you may have not collected because the client didn’t know how to express their desire. Companies have developed a way to get a deep understanding of client experiences and deliver them through wearable technology. Analyzing and synthesizing the data improves your probabilities of meeting the client’s expectations.

Wearable technology encourages recovery and rest

The main reason why most fitness goals fail is that people become too much ambitious. They tend to do too much at once which may end up with injuries, muscle soreness, and tiredness. Wearable fitness encourages recovery, motivation, and movement focus because they give a set goal for the activities. They can also track sleep and heart rate which enables you to have tips for maximum working time. As a result, customers will have more rest and mitigated proneness to injuries, which assists them to meet their set goals.

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Use the data to boost accountability

Motivation and accountability are related to the personal training of clients. Wearable technology makes it easier for clients to see their merits and track their goals. Allowing your clients to share their data from wearables directly will motivate them knowing that someone is monitoring their effort will make them work consistently. In addition, you can use the tracked data to customize the client workout program as they continue with their health and fitness journey. Individualized fitness plans give better and faster outcomes as it encourages customers by giving the results. Therefore, providers are constantly looking for engaging strategies to innovate in their fitness facilities. Many consider and focus on wearable technology as a way of retaining and acquiring members and as a gamechanger in the fitness industry. There are many wearable techs including:

• Fitbit wrist devices

Fitbit is a popular product that people wear on the wrist and offers support for everyone looking to accurately track their daily step counts, and improve their exercise levels. There are different types of Fitbit with different styles and features. It enhances motivation by measuring people’s progress towards achieving fitness goals. People who use Fitbit improve their overall exercise activities and increase the number of steps every week more than those who use a standard pedometer. Depending on the model, people can also use it to track and monitor their heart rate during exercise and can also be used as GPS tracking during outdoor exercise.

• Apple watch

Apple Watch is possibly a common fitness tracker known for providing various information about your daily activities. It delivers personalized recommendations for customers on the workout sessions and immersive experiences that assist people to stay active and motivated throughout.

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The guide of an apple watch helps you in all the fitness and wellness features as its main core activity is to track activities. It reads the tracking information of your movements in the ring.

Move ring: The outer ring which is red tracks the active calories burned every day. It shows the general movement whether you are on a 20 -mile bike ride or you are walking around. You can also change the target of the calories burned each day to better your goal and lifestyle.

Exercise ring: It is usually green and tracks any physical exercise you do every day. Exercise is the movement that exceeds a brisk walk in intensity. The target is about 30 min but you can increase or reduce the number.

Stand ring: To limit sedentary lifestyle habits, an apple watch reminds you to move at least 12 hours in a day. After moving around a minute or more, the watch indicates that you stood up. If you want to track your daily activity by the number of steps, you can get the figures easily through the apple watch.

In various workouts, it indicates moving distance, pace, heart rate, and time elapsed.

Wearable technology has now been adopted worldwide and companies incorporate various devices to enhance the client experience but the challenge is how they will incorporate the devices into the customers' training programs. Here are some of the ways that wearable devices make fitness work for both the trainer and trainee.

• Smart shoe

Smart shoes integrate with sensors to allow fitness enthusiasts and athletes for tracking physical training and their running form. Wearable has become a holistic solution for the propagation of wellness and health. Advanced wearable devices have become essential in the fitness industry and fast replacing fitness instructors.

• Head-mounted displays

These are devices such as gears and helmets which are equipped with sensors to track the physical training and activities of the user. The fitness industry discovers numerous advanced wearable devices to extract activity data and enhance enhancing good accountability of the set goals by the user.

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• Inbody band 2 fitness tracker

This wearable device is designed to offer more than one fitness habit. It was manufactured to regularly and accurately document various changes to body muscles and fat mass. This device uses smart technology to track step counts, calories burned, active minutes, and sleep duration.

Wearable technology provides a variety of unique services to the user. The wearable fitness industry is continually expanding to meet the demand of the users and produce better data reports on key fitness metrics.