it is hard to change things in patients with somatic diseases, however I rely on some data from trackers. The easiest way is to use at least Google Fit and see activity, steps and calories burn. I also look at activity timing to understand sleep timing even when it is not tracked additionally. Accuracy of REM-stage evaluation is quite bad in most trackers but fitness trackers can be good to understand sleep pattern and overall sleep duration in records longer than one week. We compared sleep characteristics in Healbe GoBe device and polisomnography and found high accuracy in sleep duration, not sleep onset, sleep efficiency or wake after sleep onset (unpublished).

I recommend to look at Welltory App which connect many parameters (activity, sleep, productivity, mood) and even weather changes with stress and energy (by heart rate variability). It helps to analyse which things affect more than others and track changes

Thanks a lot Mikhail.

Your answer is helpful.

The modern world is very fast. We work a lot, do not think about healthy nutrition, have a little rest, low physical activity. This applies to many scientists, and even doctors who give advice to their patients on lifestyle changes, including physical exertion.

Such devices can give us important information. And my question is due to this reason.

Please share your experience!

I use fitbit (the simple one, without heart rate, just steps) and I find it great. I set my target to 13k steps a day and I make a point of honour almost to meet the target. It helped me to keep fit and to feel good about it. It gives me pleasure when it vibrates to tell me I met the target that day.

Thank you Fernando.

If I understood you correctly, when you did not have a bracelet, it was hard for you to control the level of physical activity.

And so you have the ability to control and dose.

In your opinion, with a bracelet, you increased the level of physical activity?

Sergey Kozhukhov

I always exercised, but you are right. With the fitbit watch/bracelet I can track what I have done and spot occasions when I didn't do quite enough. Sometimes I go for a walk after the 10 o'clock news after noticing I was short of that day's target :-)

As cardiologist I would like to said that physical activity play very important role for prevention first of all cardiovascular disease.

What about associations between physical activity and risks of major cardiovascular diseases?

In this article we have answer on this question...Article Association of Physical Activity With Risk of Major Cardiova...

Dear Fernando!

Thanks a lot for your opinion.

I want to say that people are inherently lazy. Therefore, such devices significantly help to pay attention to the level of physical activity. In my opinion, all means are good for achieving the goal.

Hi Sergey! I have jawbone band for couple of months. I am very fully satisfied with it.

Though I am very active during working day but sometimes according to the band I have not reach a goal - 10 000 steps per day.

Also it is useful in my sleep control because it reminds me that I should sleep longer.

To my opinion the main point of wearing band is thinking about and tracking of your activity and sleep every day. It is like part of me.

Thanks.

Thanks a lot Nataliia for your answer.

Your opinion is very important for understanding how jawbone band or other devices helpful to improve our health.

Are you recommended bands or fitness tracker?

Hi Sergey!

Yes I recommend such kind of bands or trackers. They help you to summarise and anylize the data about your activity, sleep, energy loss and heart rate in passive and active time during week and month, and than give you advices how to maximaze your sleep or improve your activity.

It really helps.

Thanks.

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