the first thing that pooja sharma kaur does right after waking up is check her fitness tracker to map her sleep quality she preps her breakfast while keying in items from her breakfast into the diet app she uses she is conscious about her physical activity all day long and on days where the fitness tracker doesnt meet the 10000 steps mark she makes an extra effort to cover it up the next day her fitness tracker also maps her heart rate makes diet and fitness recommendations along with ways she can sleep better when anant ambani lost tremendous weight recently he spoke openly about the role of technology in achieving the feat lets accept it fitness and health are both getting big in the digital world and one cant afford to ignore its relevance any longer lets take the case of fitness trackers which are the latest rage among fitness enthusiasts as well as those wanting to keep their weight in check their revenues are doubling because a lot of people are finding the technology interesting as well as useful and why not strap them to your wrist and they can extract a lot of data about you how many steps you have taken the distance you have run how many calories you have burnt how much you are sleeping body mass body weight body temperature to even how much oxygen you have got in your blood whats more fascinating is that it allows us to measure what only doctors were doing so far it helps us know the working of our own bodies making it feel like a quantified self health movement the data keeps you motivated to set a goal attain it and then try to do even better our fitness trackers are not only used to monitor your walkingrunning distance and your calorie intake it does much more than that one of the key functions of jawbone is that it helps you monitor your heart rate as soon as you wake up its very important that your waking heart rate is stable as any irregularity there is an indication of an impending health issue which needs intervention most people will completely miss out on such critical signs because they have no way to map them shares californiabased bandar antabi vice president head of special projects jawbone they claim to have 80 retention rate where people at least access the device anything between 3 times to 7 times a day even after long use we all want to get fit and look better but its difficult to maintain a healthy routine fitness trackers force you to change your lifestyle for better which is tough otherwise these fitness bands passively tracks your day even your sleep is broken into live sleep deep sleep and other factors it can help deal with a variety of lifestyle issues too adds bandar antabi talking about jawbone up3 while scientific factors are making these devices popular whats working more in their favour