Your fitness tracker is (probably) lying to you

If you're really serious about it, you can buy an accessory for your phone that helps track a whole bunch of different fitness activities Occasionally I forget to charge my tracker after a couple of days and just take my phone instead I have Google Fit, after all, and it's supposed to do live fitness tracking within the app even if I don't have a tracker on my wrist.

My phone wasn't the only fitness tracker lying to me that morning; when my son's Fitbit got to the end of the walk, it also said we'd only covered a little over two miles during this active time There's every chance the same is happening for you, which is why you should have GPS with your fitness tracker Congratulations! You've completed your rings! While sitting down, for over an hour, the fitness tracker on my wrist was under the impression I was not only standing up but fully active and doing something worthy of being counted as physical activity.

None of this is to say you shouldn't own a fitness tracker The Forerunner 245 is ideal for dedicated athletes who want more from their fitness tracker. . Source