Understand your health and build healthy habits with a smartwatch

Whether you’re trying to keep up in that five-a-side kickabout or just stay in good health for your family, most of us would like to maintain – or actively improve – our health. But it’s not always easy to know where to focus your efforts: there’s so much conflicting information on the internet and health is incredibly personal, meaning that someone else’s definition of healthy and active might not match up with your own. So it’s understandable you might not know where to turn to find quality health insights.

And you aren’t alone. Huawei recently commissioned research with Ipsos that surveyed over 8,000 Europeans to study their awareness of their health and their healthy habits. While more than 80% of respondents said they were interested in physical fitness, only 50% revealed that they were actually satisfied with their level of fitness. 

It’s also clear that a lot of us struggle to know how to gauge our physical health. When respondents were asked which health measures they most often, the five most common were physical activity level (57%), amount of water consumed (54%), sleep quality / quantity (50%), heart rate (51%) and calories burned (45%) – most of which are more healthy habits than direct insight into how healthy we are. Measured far less often were more objective measures like respiratory rate (37%), blood sugar (34%), body fat (34%) and an ECG examination (26%).

Fortunately, the research also highlighted one key change that can significantly improve your awareness of and satisfaction with your own health: owning a smartwatch. Smartwatch users were found to track key metrics like heart rate, blood oxygenation saturation and calories burned almost three times more regularly than people without a device. On top of this, 47% said notifications from their smartwatch made them exercise more often, while 41% extended the amount of time they spent exercising and 28% changed their diet based on suggestions from their watch. It’s no surprise then that, of the people who responded to the survey, 88% felt owning a smartwatch had improved their physical health and 86% that it had improved their quality of life.

Clearly smartwatches can bring myriad health benefits for their users. But it’s important to know you’re picking up the right gadget to help you track the key fitness metrics. Luckily for you, Huawei’s range of smartwatches has a wide range of features to help you achieve your health and wellness goals.

HUAWEI WATCH 4

If you want immediate insight into how your health and fitness regimen are paying off, consider Huawei’s flagship Watch 4 smartwatch your personal stethoscope. Its unique one-button ‘Health Glance’ feature scans seven core health metrics in around 60 seconds, giving you immediate insight into your health. Not only that but it offers beat-by-beat ECG examinations of your heart, accurate sleep and nap tracking and health trends on everything. And its titanium body means it can easily withstand knocks – handy for those vigorous workouts!

HUAWEI WATCH GT 4 

Fancy something that would suit a night out just as well as a workout? The Watch GT 4 is Huawei’s fashion-forward all-rounder. Not only does it track more than 100 different activities from jogging to basketball and track a heap of health metrics like heart rate, stress and blood oxygen levels, it’s designed with style in mind. It comes in a wide range of materials, sizes and designs and offers over 25,000 customisable watch faces, to ensure you can pick the perfect watch for your personal look.

HUAWEI WATCH ULTIMATE

While the Huawei Watch Ultimate rocks all of the health and fitness features you’ve come to expect, it’s also perfect for those seeking out adventure. Able to see off everything from desert winds to sea water, its zirconium-based liquid metal case is corrosion resistant and 4.5 times stronger and 2.5 harder than stainless steel, while also being 17.4% lighter. Its diving modes can track recreational scuba, technical scuba, gauge mode and free diving and it’s able to endure depths of up to 100m below sea level. Meanwhile, its Expedition Mode uses Dual-Band Five-System GNSS to ensure you always know where you are, even when you’re heading off the beaten track.

HUAWEI WATCH D 

Almost nothing is more important for our well-being than a healthy heart and the Huawei Watch D is a cardiac expert you can strap to your wrist. Not only does it squeeze precision blood pressure components like a mini pump and airbag into a comfortable, compact package, its high-performance ECG tracks the electrical activity of your heart to visualise every beat it takes. It also tracks your skin temperature and offers over 70 unique workout modes to help you give that ticker a tuneup.

So if you want to learn more about the health insights Huawei’s smartwatches can help you harness, make sure you check out its full range.