Fitness trackers and smart watches are widely popular wearable devices that measure several types of health metrics, including step count, calories burned, sleep quality, Vo2 max and heart rate. As a ...

Tracking key heart health metrics every day helps you understand how your lifestyle affects your cardiovascular system and empowers you to take proactive steps toward better heart health. Heart ...

Wearables can boost motivation — but for some, constant tracking fuels anxiety. Here’s how to keep data from running your life.

Unlike your resting heart rate, which you can take with nothing more than a stopwatch and a finger to your pulse, tracking your heart rate variability (HRV) is more complicated. While it used to ...

There are forearm-based heart rate monitors, wrist-based heart rate monitors, smartwatches, fitness trackers and even ...

The use of a wearable device that detects heart rate variability was found to be of help to those seeking to quit their addictions.

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...