Health stats are becoming more important as time passes and we are starting to see devices grow in popularity that focus on your overall health. Whoop is one example and so is Oura, but are these products focussing on health because they are not so good at tracking fitness?

Some devices, Apple Watch, do both and I would argue that Apple’s offering is the best and most accurate on the market for tracking multiple metrics. It also includes ECG taking, blood oxygen, HRV, fall detection, sleep apnea monitoring and (maybe) some semblance of blood pressure tracking.

It’s a compelling collection that could easily make you feel you MUST have them to ensure you live longer. It can become paranoia inducing as you check day after day, and thus you may experience more stress and health anxiety than you would otherwise.

The thing is that these health sensors are really good in 2025 and the only people left with negative views of them are doctors and consultants who are trying to protect their knowledge from AI and the ever-evolving health sensor market.

Put this data alongside the fitness stats discussed in part 1 and you can start to get a complete picture of what your body is doing and how your fitness is improving. The problem is that it is hard for normal people to understand this data as a whole and to work out how to affect their trends. This does not matter though because a large part of smartwatch and health device ownership is in the mind. I knew someone at work who was very overweight and who genuinely thought she was getting fitter because she bought an Apple Watch. The fact she did no extra exercise and still ate the same amount genuinely did not matter to her. Go figure.

At a guess I would say that health tracking is good in 2025 and that fitness tracking is more a game of algorithms and data trickery, but when you put them together you get a compelling set of numbers that on the surface could be useful. I remain unconvinced though as to how real these stats are.

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