Using fitness apps increased everyday physical activity by an equivalent of 1,235 steps a day, and moderate and vigorous physical activity by 48.5 minutes a week, research showed.

Your physical activity is only one component of your overall health. When you collect data on other metrics you can get a more complete picture of your health. 7. Update your progress regularly.

Doing more physical activity is a popular and worthwhile goal. If you’re hoping to be more active in 2024, perhaps you’ve invested in an activity tracker, or you’re considering buying one.

S queezing exercise into a busy schedule can be tough. However, new research suggests that doing just 15 minutes of physical activity over the course of a week is linked to a lower risk of dying ...

For this research, more than 14,000 women ages 62 and older wore a hip-based physical activity tracker for one week and were followed for up to nine years. Throughout this period, 9% of women ...

Xu, Z., et al. (2022) Evaluation of physical health status beyond daily step count using a wearable activity sensor. npj Digital Medicine. doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00696-5.

In combination with wearing a physical activity tracker, researchers found personalized, supervised exercise was linked to better results in exercise performance, weight loss, and other health ...

To learn whether and how physical activity has changed in the years since fitness trackers became popular, we analyzed more than two decades of research from several industrialized nations – all ...

"Between March and April, there was a 27% decrease in mean steps worldwide, so basically within a month, the worldwide physical activity dropped by almost a third," says Dr. Tison.