Should you buy a connected watch to take care of your health?

If the connected watches are always smarter, more design and more practical, they are also more and more numerous.In the last quarter of 2020, their sales had thus increased by around 30% compared to 2019.A tendency to which the pandemic of Covid-19 is certainly not unrelated, this technology being above all intended for athletes and for all those who want to follow their health closely, the two things being often linked.But why, exactly?

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Watches cut to sweat

As you know: running with a smartphone is complicated, but going without the many data that it is capable of providing your daily jogging is just as boring.Their manufacturers, like Samsung or Apple, know it well, and their smartwaches are never as sharp as when they accompany your efforts.Solidly stowed with your wrists and truffled with various sensors, they are after all at the forefront.

Running, swimming, rowing, cross -country skiing: whatever your favorite sport, the best watches of the genre offer you performance monitoring adapted to each activity, or almost.You are free, therefore, to trace GPS routes, sequence your training or even measure your progress with a movement.True portable coaches, these tools can also provide you with a certain number of physiological data, ranging from the predictor of racing time to the number of calories spent via the measurement of your VO2max (i.e. your maximum oxygen consumption during an effort.))

But that's not all: some watches, like the latest models in the Garmin range, can even be coupled with external sensors, such as cardio belts measuring your heart rate as precisely as possible.Very useful data to analyze your effort, but also to alert you in the event of a problem.And this is the second great advantage of these devices: they want you good.Or, at least, they allow you to take care of you.

ECG, oximeter: health innovations of connected watches

Faut-il acheter une montre connectée pour prendre soin de sa santé ?

Capables de suivre votre activité cardiaque depuis longtemps déjà (notamment en analysant la lumière reflétée sur la peau de votre poignet)), les montres connectées vont aujourd’hui beaucoup plus loin.Some very healthy models, such as Fitbit Sense, simply offer you to carry out your own ECGs (for electrocardiograms)). Une simple pression des doigts, et vous voilà informé(e)) de la moindre anomalie.The idea?Detect possible ear fibrillations that can lead to major heart problems.Which will never replace a consultation, of course, but can make life easier for risk and doctors' work.

And that's not all: some watches, such as garmin or Apple, can measure your temperature, but are also equipped with oximeters capable of assessing your blood oxygenation rate.Or the same tool as recommended by WHO to detect a possible respiratory discomfort, potentially following a COVVI-19 infection.

The advantage compared to a conventional sensor, placed at the fingertip?Your watch can allow you to do a thousand other things, such as sending an email or even - let's be crazy - look at the time. L’inconvénient ? Elle est aussi (beaucoup)) plus chère.

How to choose your watch?

Yes, the question of the budget is crucial when considering buying such a tool.Particularly because their overall prices only increase, pulled up by models like the Apple Watch Series 6, now encrypted around 400 euros.

Si vous êtes néanmoins prêt(e))s à mettre le prix, évaluez bien l’offre disponible et vos besoins avant de débourser le moindre euro. Si l’Apple est certainement le meilleur modèle généraliste du marché, vous pouvez tout à fait envisager l’achat d’une montre plus spécialisée (et moins chère)), comme une Garmin Venu pour les sportifs ou une Fitbit Sense pour écouter votre corps parler.Hoping that he only tells you good things to you.