Reach your New Year fitness goals with Google Pixel Watch
Set, Track, and Achieve Your Health and Wellness Goals with Google Pixel Watch 4.
With advanced fitness tracking, real-time insights, and personalised guidance, the Pixel Watch 4 helps you stay on track all year long.
Whether you plan to be more active, be more present, or improve your sleep, creating new habits is easier with the
and Fitbit app. “Setting a New Year’s resolution to focus on positive wellbeing is one of the smartest things we can do,” says Elissa Epel, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and an expert on stress and ageing.It’s not always easy to make lifestyle changes, and harder still to stay the course, but
can help, with workout tracking for 40+ exercises, advanced running features, in-workout motivation, and progress tracking that make it easier to start new routines or re-energise the ones you already have.
Whether you want to clock more steps in each day or run a marathon, Pixel Watch 4 can help keep you motivated and track your progress.
Once you’ve made your goals and built your workouts, get real-time guidance and even analysis of how your running form is improving. You can easily access your routine from your saved workouts every time you lace up. The rest is up to you.
Pixel Watch 4 can support mindfulness goals, too. “Changing our relationship with stress can be done with small changes each day,” says Dr. Epel. “Even adopting one new wellness habit can make a huge difference.”
In the Fitbit app, you can choose a weekly mindfulness goal, set reminders to complete a mindfulness session, reflect on your stress level, and more. Plus, Fitbit Premium provides more than 200 mindfulness sessions from partners like Calm, including meditation, yoga, and relaxation.
But how do you actually track stress levels and progress? There’s a daily Stress Management Score calculated using more than 10 factors across responsiveness, exertion balance, and sleep patterns. You can see trends in how your body responds to stress and how the actions you take affect your overall stress level. “Daily stress becomes a habit we are used to, and we may not even notice it anymore,” says Dr. Epel. You can use this score to gain insight into your stress level and plan whether to take on a lot that day or take a break.
And the effects are cumulative. “When we feel less stress and more well-being, we are more able to stick to the health behaviours we want,” says Dr. Epel.
Studies show a third of adults are sleep deprived and half have trouble falling asleep. “Sleep is connected to essentially every aspect of health, so getting enough sleep is going to help reduce your risk of virtually every health problem,” says Jennifer M. Mundt, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Behavioural Sleep Medicine Lab and Training Program at Northwestern University.
But getting more sleep – and even knowing how much you’re actually getting – can be a challenge. This is where
comes in. When you wear it to bed as a sleep tracker, you’ll wake up with a Sleep Score based on your heart rate, the time you spend awake or restless, and your sleep stages. It helps you understand your sleep each night and shows you trends over time in the Fitbit app. Then you can use these insights to build healthy habits to get better rest.You can also use the app to set sleep goals and schedule cues to wind down or go to bed. “Establishing a new routine takes time, and at first it can help to set external reminders such as an alarm to get ready for bed or turn off the TV,” says Dr. Mundt.
Another key to success is to make it easy on yourself. “Start small with a goal that seems manageable, such as getting to bed 15 to 30 minutes earlier each day,” she says. “Consistency is really important with sleep, so another good place to start is to just get a consistent wake time every day of the week.” Every little bit counts.
