Heart Health Month (February) is a great time to get more from your Fitbit. I’m sure you are already happy it gets you out of your seat during the day, so you get 10,000 or more steps each day. Fitbit is the best motivator for movement. However, it’s capable of a lot more than that. I’ll explain some of the ways to get more from your Fitbit below, then enter for a chance to win one of three that we are giving away in this contest.
What is Heart Health Month and who should care
We’ve all known someone with heart health issues. Some of these are worse than others, some are not preventable. However, some issues can be improved with patience and a plan. I want to emphasize both of these. Patience is important because our bodies can be resistant to change, even positive change. Few things we do will bring dramatic perceptible change overnight. Be patient though, since we know from countless testimonials and medical studies, that positive change is possible and often you won’t feel different immediately as your lungs and heart get stronger and healthier.
A challenging thing about heart health is most of us are unaware where we stand in terms of our own heart. Heart health month is meant to help us all become more interested in taking care of our heart. Importantly, the new line of wearables, like the Fitbit Charge 5 we are giving away in this contest, can go a long way to helping you learn more about your heart and to monitor and reveal the changes in your heart health that occur due to good (e.g., exercise) or bad (sitting for hours at a computer without breaks) daily habits.
Plan to improve your heart health this year
You can do many things to affect your heart health (positively and negatively). Activity, for example, can be good or bad depending on how much and how prepared your body is. You’ve likely heard of people who had a medical emergency for doing an unusual activity like moving furniture. You don’t want that. The best way to begin, therefore, is to consult a medical professional like a physician before you begin a new program to improve heart health.
The doctor will base his assessment on what they see: test results and lab results. However, imagine if you could bring a set of results collected over multiple days with you to the doctor’s office. That is easy enough with the modern fitness trackers like the Charge 5. You can show the doctor how your heart rate varied through the days leading up to your appointment, ECG patterns (so they can see the pattern of your heart beats), average oxygen levels, sleep patterns, and more. Most people use their trackers to monitor steps and you could incorporate step tracking into your improvement plan. However, your plan can also include monitoring for subtle changes in heart rate and stress levels over time: you likely can’t perceive those changes but a Fitbit can!
Should you begin to exercise this year
Exercise is a broad term that incorporates the a range of activities. For you, a good exercise might be a half hour walk each day. At the other extreme, a very athletic person might prefer a two hour bike ride on hilly terrain.
This is the kind of person who might enter a fitness challenge like the recently advertised casting call for “Ultimate Challenge Canada.” Imagine travelling the country participating in fitness challenges, getting expert coaching, and developing lifelong memories along the way. It sounds really cool to me: as a spectator! Too intense for me to participate but I’d watch it from the comfort of my living room sofa—after my daily half hour walk, of course.
For now, enter for a chance to win a new Fitbit Charge 5 so you can start monitoring your heart health, and preparing to become a healthier version of you.
How to enter
Entering this contest is easy and you can enter in two different ways.
- In a comment beneath this article tell us one new activity you would like to do this year to improve your heart health.
- Visit the Fitbit Charge 5 product page, look at the many features, then in an email to bestbuyblog@bestbuycanada.ca, tell us which three features are your favourites. You must mention three features discussed on the product page for a valid entry.
What you can win
At the end of this contest, we will randomly draw three winners from all eligible entries. Each winner will receive either a Blue, or White, or Black Fitbit Charge 5 (there is one of each colour as prizes).
This contest runs from Feb 15th until Feb 28th.
Remember you can enter you can enter twice as discussed above. However, your friends and family may also want to improve their heart health. Send them the link to this article and suggest they enter too!
Win a Fitbit Charge 5 Contest Rules and Regulations
Good Luck
I would like to do more walking and maybe some kind of dance.
I would like to try curling again
I would like to go outside more often
I would like to start jogging again..it feels good and I can breathe easier after a good solid run. ,
I would love to do more walking and yoga
Get out and do more walking now that the weather is nicer
I would love to start doing more walking.
More yoga & cross training for injury prevention.
I’d love to start jogging
I would love to learn how to kayak this year while exploring the local rivers around me.
I want to start skate skiing.
I’d like to do more walking or running, and Fitbit Charge 5 is the best gear to have ! Thanks.
I would love to walk a lot more. As I am disabled.
Rock climbing!
I’d like to try skating again
I would like to try snowshoeing.
I would like to start swimming as well as training underwater with weights while holding my breath.
I would like to start swimming and doing weight workouts underwater while training to hold my breath for a while. The training underwater is something that I always wanted to try!
I’d like to start biking
I curently walk about 7k a day, I would love to start jogging.
I will start doing mobility yoga and increase number of times per week walking.
I would like to start hiking around Ontario this spring and summer.
I would like to start biking.
Use an exercise bike and start lifting weights
I want to start going back to the gym. The feature that interest me the most is that based on the activity, sleep, and heart rate variability, the Daily Readiness Score, will allow you to know whether you are prepared for an intense workout or should recover.
Doing more stationary bike exercise to increase heart health.
I’d like to start swimming
I am thinking of taking up Latin dance. Lessons available.
This year I want to get way more active, starting with using my stationary bike every day, walking, and using the free weights i struggled to find !
I enjoy my yoga classe
I started curling – might do baseball in spring
Walks in the parks
Stationary bicycle
Started curling this winter
I would like to start jogging once the weather gets better.
I would like to start cycling once the weather gets better.
I would like to set up a routine on the trendmill instead of just doing it whenever I can find time and motivation!
I would like to start cycling.
More daily walking once the icy sidewalks are clear. I like it tracks sleep, heart rate and activities with a daily tally.
I would like to try snowshoeing to improve my heart health.
I would love to climb a mountain again this year. Post breaking my entire foot in half in 2020, this is a major goal of mine! I’m hoping to accomplish the Grouse Grind again or the Cheif. Thank you so much for the opportunity
I would love to have this. My current fit bit isn’t half as efficient . I’m a hard working 42 year old female . I’m active, fit and like to be aware of my health. I would do your product justice. Thank you
I will walk more
try to get out and start walking.
dancing
I want to do the Couch to 5k. I love that ased on the activity, sleep, and heart rate variability, the Daily Readiness Score, will allow you to know whether you are prepared for an intense workout or should recover.
swimming
I like power walking
I like yoga
I will try to do more walking. The tracker would help keep track of my steps.
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