fitness tracker

The Medicine Cabinet: Ask the Harvard Experts: Track Your Heart Rate for Fitness and Heart Health

Q: How does tracking your heart rate provide information about your heart health? A: Checking your heart rate at rest and with exercise can provide information about your fitness level ...

September 25, 2022BY Howard LeWine
Fitness Trackers Encourage Us to Walk 40 Minutes More Each Day

Researchers have found in the first review of its kind that clocking miles on fitness trackers, pedometers, and ...

July 26, 2022BY Jessie Zhang
In the Battle of the Fitness Trackers, the Walkers Win

When Sonia Anderson got her first Fitbit step tracker, her poor pooch, Bronx, had no idea of all ...

August 6, 2019BY Bruce Horovitz
Fitness Tracker Burns Prompt Recall of 30,000 Wristbands

Reports of burns to the wrist due to overheating have prompted the recall of 30,000 fitness trackers in ...

September 27, 2018BY Simon Veazey