Here are 6 ways smart watches could help improve your health:

1.Steps Tracker
One of the easiest ways to improve your health and boost your activity level is to take 10,000 steps a day. Smart watches have built-in pedometers, which makes it easy to see the number of steps taken. While the degree of accuracy of these pedometers is questionable, the fact that you’re moving to meet your steps goal is the more important thing.

2.Sleep monitoring
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports more than a third of adults in the United States get fewer than 7 hours of sleep a night. A sustained lack of sleep can have long-term negative consequences for the body. Smart watches, when worn at night, can track sleep patterns. They can let you know how many hours of sleep you’re getting and how many uninterrupted hours. While not a substitute for a professional sleep study, these sleep statistics can help you identify patterns and set goals to improve the quality and quantity of sleep.

3.Workout reminders
We all know we should workout, but so often the hardest part of working out is making it a habit. Setting workout reminders is a great way to turn a good goal into a great habit. The advantage to a reminder on a smart watch rather than on a smartphone is it’s harder to dismiss. It’s easy to miss a reminder notification if you don’t have your phone on you, but a smart watch will vibrate on your wrist, letting you know it’s time to hit the gym.

4.Fitness apps
Just like smartphones, smart watches can have apps. While limited in features, there are health and fitness apps available that can meet your individual health goals and needs.

5.Custom watch faces
One of the most popular features of smart watches is the ability to customize watch faces, allowing you to express your individuality. In addition to fun, colorful watch faces, many smart watches allow you to add health tracking features to the main watch face. Adding steps taken or goals to the watch face puts health front and center. The more you see it, the more you’re reminded to take an active role in your health.

6.Data syncing for analysis
While smart watches have limited processing ability on their own, they are always connected to smartphones, which allows your collected health stats (sleep, steps, etc.) to be synced with your phone. On your phone you can use native apps like Apple Health or other third-party apps to analyze the data. This helps you understand your habits and progress and set future goals.

Smart watches are only growing in function when it comes to assisting us in various facets of work. If you are looking for a smart watch to optimise the way you work you can consider browsing through our collection of Uwinmo smartwatches.