Health monitor wrist bands and watches. Any good?

[einsign]

Can anyone recommend wrist these new gadget bands/watches to monitor your health, sleep patterns and so on.

Are they any good, accurate or just gimmicks?

This appears to be one of the best available at the moment:

http://www.mybasis.com/

[Hoofy]

Dunno about that one in particular but a heart rate monitor watch can be used to encourage you to keep your pace up eg if you're running. As a tool to calculate calorie burn, might as well ask a passing pigeon.

[clonmult]

Hoofy said:

Dunno about that one in particular but a heart rate monitor watch can be used to encourage you to keep your pace up eg if you're running. As a tool to calculate calorie burn, might as well ask a passing pigeon.

The calorie "burning" is only ever a vague indicator. I do laugh at colleagues who get off the cross trainer and claim that "I've just burnt nnn calories!!". Yeah, its perfectly accurate mate.

I'd just recommend a decent heart rate monitor watch from Polar, Garmin, etc. Even the basic Polar has target zones that can just beep when you go above or below a level. Took me ages to figure out my max practical heart rate for running, then dialling in the watches max zone, and it made a massive difference on my running. I'm still slow, but nowhere near as slow as I had been before.

[Hoofy]

clonmult said:

The calorie "burning" is only ever a vague indicator. I do laugh at colleagues who get off the cross trainer and claim that "I've just burnt nnn calories!!". Yeah, its perfectly accurate mate.

[rog007]

Alone, it'd be a waste of your hard earned one suspects. As part of a greater package to improve your lifestyle, then why not! Good luck!

[einsign]

https://www.facebook.com/mybasis

[Hoofy]

Doubt those calorie burns are very accurate at all.