Fitness Tracker Failing the Users; Will the Future Devices Hold a Promise?

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Mere tying the fitness tracker on the wrist won't take away the extra pounds or help anyone lose calories or even get you least active. The experts say that linking between a fitness tracker and becoming fit isn't an automatic process as many people may presume.

A tracker on the wrist is exactly like a scale in the bathroom which is used for weighing one's weight every day. Does that mean that one loses weight? The professor, professor of preventative medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University, Timothy Church says that a tracker can neither tie one's shoes for jogging or make them move, reports USA Today.

These pitfalls are a few among many that experts are finding tracking devices not much helpful in resolving the problems of nations' inactivity or obesity. Two recent studies are showing not very encouraging signs.

Even the cash incentives failed in one study to encourage people who needed physical activity. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology provided clip-on Fitbits and enticed them with cash to get active. But the slight physical activity that the participants showed was not enough to strike any change in blood pressure, weight, or any other change.  Moreover, most of them stopped using the fitbits after the cash incentives stopped, writes Today Info.

In the second study published in JAMA the young participants were asked to track calorie burnt, activity levels heart rate etc but their fitbits were not up-to-date. The study author John Jakicic is doubtful that with a more recent tracker the recorded results will differ.

People want clear track of their activity and weight loss. But man researchers are still hopeful that trackers can help. If the recent devices are insufficient in satisfying the people, the future versions will added with rewards and point, for example, will be fun to use.

Pokeman Go mobile app proofs this concept though the app delayed showing the results six weeks but it can be predicted that updating fitbits will add to tracking efficiency and encourage people to use them for stying active and healthy.