Their findings indicate that WATs encourage people to walk up to 40 minutes more each day or roughly 1,800 more steps, and resulted in an average weight loss of 1kg (2.2 lbs) over 5 months. The studies involved people of any age who used an activity tracker including a pedometer, accelerometer, activity monitor, or a step-counting smartphone application, to encourage more exercise. UniSA researchers reviewed nearly 400 studies involving about 164,000 participants worldwide using WATs to monitor their physical activity levels. “We realized now was a great time to pull all this knowledge together and see if there is an overall message on their utility as health tools.”Īctivity trackers motivate positive health changes “Since activity trackers are becoming so widely used in society, research into their effectiveness has grown rapidly,” lead researcher and UniSA PhD candidate Ty Ferguson, told Healthline. The large-scale review, recently published in The Lancetby University of South Australia (UniSA) researchers, shows that WATs “consistently outperformed controls for physical activity outcomes.”Īccording to researchers, the global market for WATs has grown “tremendously,” with the number of activity trackers shipped worldwide increasing by over 1,000% between 20. New research affirms that wearable activity trackers (WATs) like Fitbit or Garmin really do encourage people to exercise more. According to researchers, wearable activity trackers may also fuel unhealthy behaviors in people with anxiety disorders or obsessive-compulsive disorder and should be used with caution.Experts say that while these devices do help improve health, there’s more to weight loss than ‘calories in, calories out,’ as a person’s ability to lose weight is often genetic.
New research shows that wearable activity trackers promote positive health changes, helping a wide variety of people move more and lose a modest amount of weight.
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