Friendship Day is around the corner and it is the time of the year to remind your best friend how much you care. And what better way can you reshape your friendship than encouraging your best friend to shape up and start following a fitness regimen? That’s why gifting fitness gadgets to your BFF this Friendship Day 2014 will work wonder in motivating him/her to undertake a fitness regiment from this weekend onward.
Here we have shortlisted top five nouveau fitness gadgets; these stylish and state-of the-art fitness gadgets help keep tracking progresses and are proven extremely effectual in keeping users in good shape and in good health.
Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex
If you think of fitness gadgets you cannot possibly give Fitbit a miss, the leading brand of all fitness gadgets. At CES 2014, Fitbit has launched two gadgets for athletes and fitness enthusiasts – Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex. When your friend clips Fitbit One to their clothes, when they are ready to hit the track, climbs stairs up and down or even when he/she is sleeping.
However, if your BFF is inclined to everything is so much in vogue then, you may rather pick Fitbit Flex to the former. In addition to its style quotient that Flex is available in five distinct color variants, it has been proven in recording biometric data. With support for both iOS and Android platform, it provides statistical data related to traveling and movements, sync with computer and makes it easy to share data over multiple devices including smartphone, Mac and PC. Equipped with various monitoring tools, graphs and charts, Fitbit Flex keeps users updated of all the graphical presentation of data. Hence, these fitness gadgets would be smart choices for friendship day gifts, but wait till you check out the rest.
Withings Smart Body Scale and Withings Pulse
Withings Smart Body Scale and Withings Pulse are two widely chosen fitness gadgets from Withings which shares the top spot with Fitbit in this industry. If your friend resists wearable tech gadgets, then Withings Smart Body Scale could be an appropriate Friendship Day gift. This fitness gadget offers accurate data of users’ body mass, weight, and lean mass before and after they go out to play. Connected wirelessly with Withings web and mobile applications as well as popular third-party fitness services (such as Runkeeper), Withings Smart Body Scale help users set practical goals according to body mass and weight and help track improvements.
Measuring 1.69 by 0.87 by 0.31 inches, Withings Pulse is a small and handy fitness tracker and a top favorite among fitness enthusiasts in 2014. Withings Pulse, similar to Fitbit One, monitors and records biometric data without needing to wear it. This non-wearable fitness accessory helps monitor sleep pattern, calories burned, distances covered, and elevation gained. Though these features are common in other fitness trackers, but there is one thing which sets it apart is heart-rate scanner. This feature helps monitor and measure stress level and heart-rate by just a tapping on the back of the device.
Misfit Shine
Misfit Shine has captured the market of style-savvy fitness enthusiasts ever since it hit the market. Rather a high-tech fitness jewelry than an device, Misfit Shine offers versatile wearable options; wear it as a necklace, a clip-on accessory or a bracelet (which can be worn using a magnetic clasp that comes with the package). A fashionable variance in the segment of wearable tech, Misfit Shine is an excellent pedometer device to monitor and track movements and achievements in any fitness regimen your friend follows, whether running, motion walking, cycling or swimming. It also features analog time-display with built-in LED lights. Isn’t it an ultimate gadget gift for your BFF this Friendship Day 2014?
If you are planning to check out other alternatives in fitness gadgets before you select the best Friendship Day gift, then following devices are worth mention:
- Nike Fuelband SE
- Jawbone Up
- JayBird Reign
- LG Lifeband Touch
