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but as up guys is BT back here again with another review today I want to talk to you guys about the importance of trackers now there's a lot of fitness trackers going around there's Fitbit the Garmin there's all these different brands how do you know which one to choose and why are they even important why would you even want one you know even the Apple watch is a viable option now for these kind of products so I decided to make a video on why they're important because I was skeptical at first too but hear me out because my opinion has changed now if you have seen some of my old videos you will know that I have a cop reference and that cop reference goes something like this when you're driving in a 50 mile-per-hour zone and then you get to a 35 mile per hour zone up ahead sign right are you gonna slow down or are you gonna go that 50 right through that 35 mile per hour zone most likely you're gonna go 50 miles per hour because nobody's holding you accountable and if you're already going that route why would you stop now let's say the same situation happened you were going 50 and 50 mile per hour zone and then you see you have 35 mile-per-hour zones but this time you see a cop right next to that side are you more likely to slow down yes you're gonna go that 35 miles per hour and that is the same way a tracker works you see when you have something that holds you accountable when you have something that is watching you and you have to answer to it's almost like a little trainer on your arm so that way you'll see what you're doing right and wrong and if you've eaten the wrong things how that can affect your progress they hold you accountable they hold you accountable guys you know at the end of the night when you're looking at all your stats you can say I need to do better as opposed to not seeing your stats not getting any feedback from anyone or anything and then you're just going about your business what's gonna happen you're gonna forget you're not gonna see that progress you're not gonna see any of these cool charts that some of these apps have and you're just gonna fall off so it's a good way to keep track of your progress first and foremost now with all that being said let's move in - what tracker I use and my experience now I first had the charge one by Fitbit it was a charge HR excuse me now my problem with trackers and the Apple watches is they don't have that grade of battery life so if you're trying to track for two to three days max on the battery and let's say one day you forget to wear it and then you're going about your day and you're like huh I guess I don't really need that watcher that tracker and then you stop wearing it I mean this has happened to me I forgotten totally about the Fitbit I go about my day and I'll be like man I had a Fitbit yeah that's right so I picked up the charge - because they said it had five days of battery and this is very very good I have gotten five to six days of battery with this device I'm working out I'm at work and this tracker has held up very nicely I'm very impressed so here it is right here here is the Fitbit charge - and now I'm going to get into a little bit of a review overview of why I like this tracker and why I think you guys should probably pick this one up now they updated it and what I like about this new charge - first off is the price they didn't rate they just updated the charge HR with a better screen and better battery life and they didn't charge me for they kept it the same exact price so kudos to Fitbit for doing that I really when I saw the price I was like that's really cool of them to do so you can really tell they're in it for the people they're in it for us you know they want us to be better they're a business of course they got to make money but at the same time I really felt like this move kind of made me realize that they actually do care and the company is very set on helping people so through pressing this button on the side you can get to a lot of things you can see the time the date how many steps you have the fat-burning zone for yourself your heart rate what kind of workout you're doing you can set it to the different kind of workouts that you might be doing so elliptical bike running weightlifting all those different things which is really cool because it can calibrate your movement to what activity you're doing so that's a cool feature now Brett people might say Brandon bTW I mean this thing is not accurate I can wave my hand and it'll get stepped or my heart rate is not completely accurate into those people I say of course it's not going to be accurate this isn't meant to be completely a hundred percent accurate but if it can be 80 to 90 percent accurate then you can get that feedback which is most important is it's not supposed to be a accurate to the book by the book exact numbers it's supposed to be a guideline for you to do better and to give you an idea of what you're doing on a day to day basis you know so you may have those days where you know you're waving your arms or you're doing more work with your arms and you know you're like why are my steps like at a thousand have you been walking a thousand steps well it's giving you a generalized idea of your your activity throughout the day so don't expect this to have the exact heart rate because it's just going off of a little sensor on the bottom you know it's great technology if it can give you around the right heart rate that in itself is really cool so what I like about the Fitbit charge HR 2 is that it'll send you a lot of notifications through your Fitbit through your phone through your email to try to contact you to say hey look you need to be moving or you need to be doing this or you need to do 90 more steps that has something called win the hour where you can do 250 steps and you can win the hour so you try to win all the hours in the day so when I'm at work or doing different things I'm in the lab I'm at my computer I'll get these notifications on my wrist a little vibrate and say hey you need to be moving and this motivates me to get up and be like you know what I shouldn't be moving I should be moving those 250 steps so it's a really great way to just keep yourself active throughout the day even if you don't work out even if you don't go to the gym if you even if you don't have time to be active this is just a way to show you that every day we can do something to be active and I really like that I really like that idea and that concept another great feature of the Fitbit ecosystem is that they have a nice food tracker now you can use My Fitness Pal which you know is really nice but I like that they integrated a food tracker where people you can enter your macros and enter how many calories you want to get for the day and what you want your weight loss to be and then this will give you the calories that you need for the day and then you can add different foods let's say I eat at Chipotle you can add chicken you can add whatever toppings you got into the app so you can see if you're in a deficit or a surplus for your calories which is really cool I really like that and it calculates your steps your heart rate all into how many calories you have left for the day so it gives you a very general idea of how your day is going and it tracks and it keeps you and it holds you accountable and also it calculates your weight so you can enter your weight every single day and it'll show you a chart going up and down of what your weight is and you can keep yourself accountable by saying how much weight are you am I actually losing are the foods that I'm eating actually working another feature a big feature of the HR 2 is of course the heart rate monitor now it's not completely accurate like I said but it does give you a lot of motivation so when I'm in the gym I try to keep my heart rate at a certain level if I see a dip or I know I'm not in my fat-burning zone I'll try to like up the rate I'll decrease the rest times and my sets and go harder it just gives you that much more of a push as opposed to nothing at all and for 150 bucks it's worth its weight in gold you can also track your sleep now this is something I'm really bad at because like I'm working so hard with YouTube with work in a lab so I do scientist stuff all day come home work out and then I go to sleep really late and wake up early so it really motivates me to sleep earlier it'll send you a notification saying hey it's almost bedtime at about 30 minutes before your bedtime so these little reminders kind of just help you in your everyday life you know it's a product that will help you in your everyday life now in the new HR 2 they also added another relax exercise onto the the tracker and what this does is it gives you a two-minute or five-minute breathing exercise now if you're being in a meditation which I've meditated maybe every other day I try to at least it gets you in tune it gets you more relaxed when I'm at my desk I can just turn on the relaxation app on my watch and it'll show this little bubble going in and out and you follow it with your breath in and out and when I'm swamped with paperwork or I have a lot to do I actually stop my paperwork and I turn on this app and it calms me down playing this - but it calms me down and to me like it's things like that or all these different things add up to you having a better life and when a product can do that just by your day to day then it's worth it whether it's the Apple watch with us the Garmin whether it's the new Fitbit charge HR the flex whichever one you decide to go with make sure it has the features that will help you most in your life that's the best advice I can give you now I really really like the Fitbit charge HR - and I recommend this one strongly to anybody trying to get into the tracker world definitely one with the heart rate monitor so I hope you guys have enjoyed this video on why trackers are important and maybe you give you guys that little push that you need to go out and get yourself a tracker remember that cop that I was talking about yeah you don't want him to catch up with you and that's life life will catch up with you so definitely give a tracker a try you know give a tractor a try tracker a try and and see how it works out for you you know take it what's the worst that can happen your life gets it a little bit better and even then that's amazing so go out there get yourself a tracker and let me know how it goes and I will see you guys in the next video peace every day 24/7 I'm getting more shredded I am putting my