Recently I got the Apple Watch, and as I am sure all of you know you can do amazing things with it. I easily respond to text messages with voice response, I have my watch face set to include my calendar (ensuring I have no excuse for missing any appointments), and I never miss a game update for my favorite sports teams. However, even with all these amazing features, none of them are why I love my Apple Watch.
What has made me fall in love with my Apple Watch is how it’s helped me to get up and move! I, like I am sure many of you, have an incredibly busy life between work, my kids sports activities, and just the day-to-day tasks on my calendar. After my first week with my watch, and thanks to the built in activity monitor I realized just how LITTLE exercise I had in my life. I must admit, while clearly I wasn’t and am not someone whom works out, I had no idea just how much of my time was spend not moving at all. Honestly, I was a bit mortified! Suddenly I find myself making some pretty big changes in my day to day routine and my greatest motivator each day is watching the rainbow of colors on the activity monitor complete their circles.
I now find myself doing little things like coming to work just a bit earlier than usual to fit time in for a short walk before starting my day, taking an real break from my work during the day and going outside with my dog Piper for more than just a trip outside and just moving every chance I get. If you don’t have an Apple watch you can still get the same motivation and integration with the Health App on your iPhone and the Misfit Shine with some added bonuses!
There are several benefits to the Misfit shine: it features a replaceable watch battery, it’s extremely lightweight, is waterproof, and tracks your sleep patterns. To sync your steps, distance, and calories burned you can either place the Misfit on your iPhone or it will automatically sync the information when your near your phone. There are a series of LED lights that indicate your progress throughout the day. One drawback is that there is not a digital display like some other devices out there, however, with the wireless integration of your daily stats, you likely won’t notice you can’t tell the time.
Sometimes we all just need a little motivation to get a bit more exercise in our lives and both of these devices start to make exercise feel like a bit of a game. It’s amazing how just watching some charts or graphs can be such a motivator. Plus, when you get to use some of the coolest products out there they actually make getting more active fun!