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How a fitness tracker can save your life

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Sandi (SA)
7 yrs ago

 
Fitness trackers are not just the latest fad, they can actually save your life. 

It pays to take notice of your fitness device.

A woman in the US said her Fitbit literally saved her life after she noticed something was off with her heart rate.

Patricia Lauder, age 73, said she started suffering from fatigue and began experiencing shortness of breath after earlier battling a sinus infection.

Even walking a short distance would leave her exhausted.

The Independent reported it was the unusually high recording on Lauder’s Fitbit that made her realise something was wrong. Her normal resting heart rate of 68 to 70 beats per minute was increasing each day by five points and one day it climbed to 140.

Read more at NY Post

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Sandi (SA)
7 yrs ago

 

Anyone use one of these ????  Am thinking it might be a good idea.



 Best not to exercise it uses up to many heart beats .

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Dand
7 yrs ago

I use one. I keep a watch on my heart rate on my morning walk. I was once told by a fitness guru that it wasn't so much how the heart rate went up that you should watch, but how quickly it came back to normal when you stopped exercising. It is also a great motivator to get those 10,000 steps they reckon you should do in a day. Neighbours shake their heads and stare when I walk round and round the back yard just on dark. I complicate things by staring either at the ground or up in the sky.

Cheers.

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