Health and fitness have always been rooted in Indian traditions. However, with modernization, the biggest challenge that has emerged is maintaining a focus on health and fitness amidst increasingly sedentary and pressing lifestyles. Fortunately, wearable technology is changing the way we pursue health and fitness, says Ali Rizvi, Director, Garmin India.

Health and fitness have always been rooted in Indian traditions. However, with modernization, the biggest challenge that has emerged is maintaining a focus on health and fitness amidst increasingly sedentary and pressing lifestyles. 

“Fortunately, wearable technology is changing the way we pursue health and fitness,” says Ali Rizvi, Director, Garmin India. 

Besides leading the key initiatives for Garmin India, he is an avid fitness enthusiast who vouch for such smartwatch technology that helps you keep track of your physical and mental health.

Packed with an array of features, wearable technologies help users in measuring their vitals and keeping a close watch on their health progress, while motivating them to push the limits and make healthier choices. Rizvi explains that wearable technologies like smartwatches are becoming more and more mainstream, which is also leading to the generation of important data for the benefit of users. He reasons that the data provides measurable important insights to the users and helps them self-assess their progress.

What can such smart watches do? In the pursuit of health, smartwatches from the wearable industry today offer many advanced monitor features such as Heart Rate Monitor, Stress Tracking, Sleep Score, Body Battery Energy Monitor, Pulse Ox sensors, VO2 Max, Fitness Age, Health Snapshot, and Recovery Time.  “It also assists users without any limitation by providing the multi sports mode including running, cycling, skiing, rowing, weightlifting, and yoga in the smartwatch itself,” he says. 

Ali further highlights that the new emerging technology in smartwatches indeed helps people to get more insight about physical and mental health. 

In fact, the application of military standard-built has added a whole new dimension to the smartwatches today.

 Ali explains the advanced features for the military usages: 

“Tailored for every kind of adventurous pursuit and especially for the military, there are smartwatches packed with exclusive features such as kill switch, stealth mode, night vision goggle compatibility, jumpmaster activity and so on that can help the military in a sudden situation or circumstances.”

And the US military standard-built quality smartwatches provide luxury for rugged use in the toughest circumstances. The smartwatches are water resistant, can remain operational even at 12,000 feet high altitudes and survive multi-directional shock

The smartwatches can also withstand simulated high-altitude freezing-point cycles and freezing from room temperature without impacting their functioning. Nowadays smartwatches also offer a 3-axis compass, barometric altimeter, GPS navigation, GPS-Glonass-Galileo features, accelerometer, and multi-frequency capabilities to track most challenging terrains.

Also, the premium watches offer Power Sapphire™ Solar Lens which are durable and scratch-resistant and best suited for those who spend more time outdoors and love adventure activities in any environment. These watches also allow users to track solar intensity with a chart feature and provide unprecedented battery life.  

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The smartwatch technologies foster adherence to fitness routines and data insights help users to see whether their fitness program is working or a change in strategy is needed. In a world pressed for time and with enough distractions, wearable technologies empower users to optimize time utilisation and stay focussed on fitness goals.