The fusion of technology and fitness, although a unique and useful one, is becoming complex day by day. While the use of technology has revolutionized fitness, technology has also resulted in a secular decline in the mindset of people. In today’s world, marked by unhealthy lifestyle and sedentary behaviour, exercising is the only way of keeping a healthy and fit body along with a healthy diet. Here is where wearable technological equipment comes in, aiming to motivate people to take up fitness in order to encourage a healthy body, mind and spirit. Wearable technological gadgets are becoming the fundamental part for fitness regimes. Besides motivating to take up exercise, these wearable technological devices monitors the overall fitness and health, provides guidance for fitness workouts, detects health issues by tracking health metrics, and provides customized tips and insights regarding taking up suitable workout regimes.

While there are positive effects of wearable technological equipment, such as tracking one’s own progress, assistance of personalized workout apps like myFitnessPal, FitBit etc., flexible workout hours for professionals, there are many negative aspects. The positive effects can be extremely motivational. For someone, who has put up a lot of weight that is affecting his or her health and daily life adversely, starting a workout session on a regular basis is the best way, and here is where technological wearable equipment plays a significant role. People start buying smart equipment, like a high quality smart watch or heart rate monitors and chest straps like Polar H10, or smart water bottles like HidrateSpark, that track your hydration level, because people feel that these wearable technological gadgets will motivate them to start their fitness journey from somewhere .

However, it has to be understood that motivation comes only when one is mentally tough and has acquired that mental strength to keep maintaining that drive, no matter what. Unfortunately, people start their fitness journey with a lot of enthusiasm with their newly bought smart watch, or smart water bottle, head and chest bands, with the hope of tracking their regular progress, number of steps walked, heart rate, calories burnt etc., but all the motivation sways away after some time, as people start to lack enthusiasm and the mental resilience required.

The devices are now available in any online and offline store at a very affordable price, which makes it easier for people to buy the wearable technological equipment very easily. These fitness devices just become a way of upgrading fashion, failing to justify the purpose for which they were brought. A trend of becoming dependant and obsessed over these wearable technological gadgets. Though designed to attained fitness efficiency, these wearable technological gadgets can also become a way of digression, as it often diverts the mind while exercising outdoors.

Not to forget that the progress tracked on these wearable technological gadgets are not always accurate, which ends up in physiologically exhausting and causing injury to those people who are really driven by their motivation to achieve fitness. Besides, constant exposure to these tracks and readings of wearable gadgets can also result in anxiety, when one sees that his or her goal is still not fulfilled even after working out.

The future of wearable gadgets are, hence, very bright. Using technology in the right manner is very important. Wearable technological gadgets are designed to help the users, and not cause hindrance in their path of reaching their target by causing difficulties. So, it is very important to use these technologies in a mindful manner so it can prove to be beneficial in giving one a fit physique, and not obsessive, addictive or detrimental in any case.