http://www.GetFitOver40.com - Basis 2014 Carbon Steel Health Tracker Watch Review. First off, let's talk about what a Basis Health Tracker Watch is? The Basis Health Tracker Watch is really a combination of a Fitness Band, combined with a Heart Rate Sensor, combined with a Watch, combined with some other bells and whistles that pickup even more information from your body. Starting with the Fitness Band side of things, the basic function of most fitness bands is to track movement using built in accelerometers/gyroscopes. This movement is then deciphered into activities like sleeping, sitting, walking, and running typically. Most Fitness bands track activities that are stepped based the most accurately, so sports like biking, circuit training and weight lifting for example do not convert so well into a step only based format, meaning you will not get an accurate caloric total for non step based activities. Heart rate sensors do not track movement but rather they read your heart rate which can then be converted into energy output based on your weight, height, age and gender. Heart rate activity readings are very accurate in terms of how many calories you are actually burning because the higher the heart rate the more effort you are exerting. We all know what a watch does but incorporating a watch with not only the time but also the date is a nice touch, it saves you having to wear an actual watch or having to dig your phone out of your pocket or purse to check the time. Basis has gone even a few steps further and added some extra bells and whistles unique to the Basis Health Tracker Watch. Basis has incorporated even more sensors, one for reading your skin temperate, one for reading outside ambient temperature, and one that reads your perspiration. This extra information can be used by the software to figure out what's going on with your body during different times of the day and different types of activities. Who is the Basis Health Tracker Watch made for? In my option it "is not made for" the serious high level athlete looking for very accurate feedback when doing high level activities that really get your heart rate soaring. I just did not find the Basis Health Tracker Watch was able to track my high-level activities very well. I'll get into that a bit more later when I talk about the built-in Heart Rate Sensor since it plays a key role. Now for people who are looking for typical activity readings found with most fitness bands that track step based motion, the Basis works very much the same way but with of course the added info from all the extra sensors built into the fitness watch. Being able to see data like your sleep patterns, heart rate, body temperature and perspiration combined with steps and calories, is very interesting to say the least. Basis also uses this info to help you build custom programs called Habits that will aid you in achieving your health and fitness goals. Read the rest of my written post with more info and some additional photos for this video on my GetFitOver40.com Website: http://www.getfitover40.com/post/2014/3/19/basis-2014-carbon-steel-health-tracker-watch-review.html Buy the Basis Health Tracker Watch: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GJG5ZEA?tag=gfo40main-20&camp;=14573&creative;=327641&linkCode;=as1&creativeASIN;=B00GJG5ZEA&adid;=02JQTB8E23Y6TEA619M5&&ref-refURL;=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getfitover40.com%2F

• published: 20 Mar 2014
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