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From calories to cardio, Apple technology allows you to monitor all aspects of your health and fitness

The complex array of sensors that apple has crammed into the iphone and the apple Watch can compile an amazing amount of data about your exercise habits (or lack thereof). They can track how far you run, walk, or swim, and calculate the number of calories you burn while you’re at it. The Apple Watch can even monitor your heart rate in case you overdo things a bit.

For most people, that level of information is all they need to keep on top of their health and fitness regime. However, there are plenty of other smart devices that can connect to your iPhone and help you to monitor your health, and that of your family.

Of course, you don’t need an iPhone or iPad to weigh yourself or check your blood pressure, but the advantage of using a ‘smart’ set of bathroom scales or blood pressure monitor is that they can use an iPhone app to monitor your health data over a period of time. That can give you a helpful indication of the progress that you’re making and – even more importantly – the app may be able to spot vital early warning signs if there’s an unexpected change in your data.

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