Best Fitness Trackers For Your Boxing & Kickboxing Workouts

Data is crucial for any part of business. It allows you to track wins and losses, as well as gain insight into areas for improvement, expansion, and growth. If you consider fitness to be the business of your health, you can use data to understand many aspects of your overall well-being. Over the past decade, fitness technology, more specifically data tracking, has become a booming industry as individuals are taking their health, wellness, and fitness more seriously.

Enter fitness trackers. Fitness trackers are wearable technology that enables you to measure several distinct health factors, such as heart rate, steps taken, sleep quality, and a multitude of other exercise and workout data.

The FightCamp Trainers are experts when it comes to wearable tech, but with so much available, it’s hard to know where to start. Here they break down some of the more popular options for fitness trackers on the market today.

Best Fitness Trackers For Boxing & Kickboxing Workouts

WHOOP

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WHOOP is a fitness tracker that monitors your overall recovery and gives you personalized recommendations and coaching feedback to improve your recovery. This feedback is delivered to your phone so you can track your overall progress through different metrics.

Focus:

• Stress

• Recovery

• Sleep

• Daily activity

• Other Benefits: Battery life lasts five (5) days

Price Range:

• Hardware: $50 - $100

• Monthly subscription: $18 - $34

Apple Watch

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The Apple Watch is a smart watch that utilizes the Apple iOS software and can sync to all of your other Apple products. This device is a great investment if you are a task-oriented person who likes to check off boxes throughout the day.

Key feature: The Apple Watch tells you when you have a prolonged, elevated heart rate and asks if you want to record a workout.

Focus:

• Primarily used as a watch

• Tracks calories burned

• Measures heart rate

• Monitors daily activities (e.g. active minutes, hours standing)

• Straps/Watch face are customizable

• Water resistant

• Sends reminders to breathe and breathing exercises

Price Range:

• $100 - $800

fitbit

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The OG of the recent fitness tracker craze, the fitbit revolutionized tracking data and has come a long way since it first came onto the market in 2007. (They set the gold standard of 10,000 steps per day.) There are several different models available today, and when it comes to data, fitbit does a little bit of everything.

Focus:

• Tracks number of steps

• Monitors workout data

• Monitors sleep

Price Range:

• $80 - $300

Myzone

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Myzone is a wearable fitness tracker and online social platform that shows and rewards workout efforts. Myzone has an online community that brings the social network factor into play, allowing you to compete against people from across the globe. The device also displays effort using color-coded zones so you can see how hard you are pushing yourself during workouts.

Focus:

• Measures heart rate

• Tracks calories burned

• Displays Effort Points (MEPS - Myzone Effort Points)

Price Range:

• $90 - $160

FightCamp Heart Rate Monitor

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The FightCamp heart rate monitor keeps it simple--and sometimes less is more. Our monitor is primarily designed to track your heart rate during exercise and training, especially during boxing and kickboxing workouts, when you want to get your heart rate elevated during rounds (near maximal) and sub-100 BPM (beats per minute) during recovery.

Focus:

• Measures heart rate

• Tracks calories burned

• Monitors energy output

Price Range:

• $179 for the Endurance Kit, which includes:

  • Connected heart rate monitor

  • Resistance bands

  • Premium jump rope

  • Yoga mat

Data Makes You Better

In the world of fitness technology, tracking data is huge to measure your progress. When it comes to choosing the best device, our advice is to try out different options and see what works best for you and your training goals.

FightCamp is one of the leaders in connected fitness and wearable technology. With our revolutionary punch trackers and our heart rate monitor, you can constantly push yourself to improve your fitness and health during your boxing and kickboxing workouts.

And as Shanie Smash likes to say, “you can’t improve what you can’t measure,” so start tracking your progress today!

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