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fitbit
FitBit offers wireless-enabled, wearable activity trackers designed to help you become more active, eat a more well-rounded diet, sleep better and ultimately, make you healthier by measuring data such as the number of steps walked, heart rate, quality of sleep, steps climbed, and other personal metrics involved in fitness. The Fitbit lines includes options you can wear on your wrist or clip to your clothes. Some Fitbit models track your heart rate, while others offer fewer features but are more affordable. For more information, click here.
MySwimPro
This app serves as a personal swim coach to help you be the best swimmer you can and get the most from your workouts wherever you are. You’ll choose from one of five workout categories and learn from the best, set goals and improve your technique. Geared for all levels of swimming, from beginning to very experienced. Workouts are 100% personalized to your swimming goal.
The Last Pick
"If you can dream it, it can happen." In this heartening book, Boston Marathon race director and motivational speaker David McGillivray shares the challenges he has overcome to inspire readers to similar triumphs in their own lives. Click here to order.
MapMyFitness
This family of apps including MapMyRide, MapMyRun, MapMyWalk, MapMyHike and MapMyFitness gives users the tools to map, record and share their exercise routes and workouts with each other. Includes 160+ million of the best running, cycling and walking routes around the world. No charge for basic services. Premium membership available for a fee. For more information, visit www.mapmyfitness.com
Misfit
The Misfit line of wearable activity trackers are unique in design, affordability and count steps, calories, distance, sleep quality and duration. Water resistant and designed to be worn on pants, shirts, shoes, lapels and even a key chain as well as the wrist, Misfit wearables do not require charging. The product line includes a wearable tailored to tracking swim workouts. Products sync with the Misfit smartphone app. Touch responsive, doubles as a music remote, selfie trigger, presentation clicker or button to enable a variety or home devices and web services. For more information, click here.
Garmin
While Garmin offers a range of wearable fitness trackers at a variety of prices, the Garmin Vivosmart HR+ consistently receives high marks. Named Fitness Tracker of the Year at the Wareable Tech Awards 2016, it includes a great mix of activity, heart rate, sleep and GPS tracking. For more information, click here. To see the entire line of Garmin fitness trackers, click here.