Fitness Experts Reveal Top Five Health Smartwatches To Buy In 2021

What is the best fitness watch? Health experts reveal their top five smartbands for 2021 based on sleep, weight loss, and exercise

• Leading fitness professionals have named the Apple Watch the best to buy
• AIF experts said the top three are Apple, Garmin and Fitbit watches
• Respondents agreed that the most important thing was usability
• The top 5 were rounded off by the Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch and Whoop Strap

Leading fitness professionals named the Apple Watch the best health smartwatch money could buy in 2021, beating other popular Garmin and Fitbit items.

Experts at the Australian Institute of Fitness (AIF) found the wearable device, which starts at $ 299, is the best for weight loss, ease of use, and form and content, and wins 24.20 percent of the vote.

The Apple Watch was followed by Garmin’s line of smartwatches, which received 22.50 percent of the vote and was named the best for improving your general fitness and learning to run or improving your overall mileage.

The whoop strap (pictured) ranked fourth in the top 5 but was rated best for overall sleep performance

Third place went to the popular line of Fitbit watches (14.50 percent), which give millions the ability to track their steps, workouts, calories, and sleep.

The top 5 were rounded off by the Whoop Strap (11.20 percent), which gives a detailed overview of your overall fitness level and was recognized as the best for sleep tracking, and the Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch (9.60 percent).

The respondents and experts in the survey agreed that the most important thing about a smartwatch is that it offers user-friendly features such as customizable display functions and long battery life.

Garmin’s watches (pictured) won 22.50 percent of the vote and were recognized as the best for improving your general fitness and learning to run, or for improving your mileage

They ranked this against technical features like a built-in speaker for voice commands and improved sleep tracking.

Many also said that they like features like heart rate monitoring that can show how hard you are working in a given training session.

Steve Pettit, CEO of the Australian Institute of Fitness, said: ‘Health and fitness wearables are the fastest growing sector in the fitness industry.

Third place went to the popular Fitbit watch line (14.50 percent), which gives millions the ability to track their steps, workouts, calories, and sleep (Figure).

The Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch took fifth place with 9.60 percent of the votes (picture)

The Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch took fifth place with 9.60 percent of the votes (picture)

“The amount and depth of data that can be obtained from them is incredible, and information that was once only available to elite athletes is quickly becoming readily available and digestible for the everyday Australian.”

Other smartwatches that made the top 10 in the summary below were the Motorola Moto, Huawei, Fossil Sport, and Chest Strap.

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AIF

The Australian Institute of Fitness

The Australian Institute of Fitness (AIF) is the largest and longest established fitness training organisation in Australia, with dynamic training methods and expert course coaches nationwide - spanning fitness, massage and nutrition. The AIF qualifies more fitness professionals than any other provider in Australia, as well as offering a broad range of continuing education courses (CEC), upskilling resources and partnership programs for existing industry.