The 2016 Rio Olympics has reignited a passion for sport and fitness. With a vast variety of different forms of exercise on offer to us, clever gadgets to improve our awareness and progression and an array of fashionable items to inspire and motivate us, now is the perfect time to get fit. With such a wide choice of fitness gadgets on the market, it can be overwhelming and easy to get sucked in. Here are our top 5 fitness gadgets that are useful, fun and motivating:
Lumo Run Shorts and Leggings
These leggings contain sensor technology that can measure a whole host of things a runner should find useful including cadence, ground contact time, pelvic rotation and stride length. This information can then be synced with an app on your phone for storage and real time coaching tips on how to improve your form.
FitBit Blaze
The successful company’s latest product now boasts three key features which make it a great cross between the Apple Watch and the Pebble Time Round. Featuring a colour touch screen with a clock, notifications that send you call and calendar alerts and lastly, FitStar. FitStar is a fitness subscription service that shows onscreen workouts and tracks your heart rate. The FitBit Blaze also allows you to customise your watch strap and frame.
Sportiiiis
This gadget is great for the cycling enthusiast as it allows you to check your stats whilst you are exercising, without the difficulty or danger. Cyclists are able to track their heart rate with the the simple Head-Up Display (HUD), which has 6 LED to indicate your heart rate. The gadget can be mounted on your sunglasses and your statistics can be relayed to you via voice control.
Trace
This great little gadget is perfect for those who are interested in more extreme sports, such as skiing, skateboarding or surfing. Designed to be mounted on a board where it can log tricks, speed and height and it can be synced to an app on your phone.
Finis Neptune
We can all agree that music is a great way to keep us motivated while we are exercising. This useful gadget can be attached to your swimming goggles and uses bone conduction audio to relay music to the user’s ears, without the need for ear buds. It also makes music louder and clearer when submerged in water and features 4GB of storage space as well as an 8 hour rechargeable battery.
By Amy Louise
