The Best Fitness Trackers of 2019: 15 Smart Watches to Help You Reach Your Fitness Goal

Whether you have set yourself a wedding weight-loss goal or you just want to improve your overall fitness, a fitness tracker can help you achieve your goals.

Let’s face it, planning a wedding can be stressful and it’s been proven that regular exercise can help ease stress levels and improve your all-round emotional wellbeing. If you’re knee-deep in seating charts, invest a little bit of your wedding budget into your health and consider buying a fitness tracker.

We’ve rounded up 14 of the best fitness trackers, starting at a pocket-friendly £15.99!

The Best Budget Fitness Trackers

Buying a fitness tracker doesn’t have to mean blowing all your cash on a fancy gadget. There are plenty of cheaper styles that offer many of the features you would want from a fitness tracker at an affordable price.

Letscom Fitness Tracker – Amazon, £15.99

Whether you are on a tight budget or you are a newcomer to the fitness tracker world and want to ease in with something affordable, you can’t get much better that the Letscom Fitness Tracker, priced at just £15.99. This stylish smart bracelet is super subtle, available in a range of colours and will monitor your steps, calories burned and can track your sleep.

Special Features: Monitors steps taken, calories burned, active minutes, sleep and includes SMS notifications

Great For: Fitness fans on a budget

Fitbit Inspire Health and Fitness Tracker – Amazon, £49.99

One of the most well-known brands in the fitness tracker world, the Fitbit Inspire Health and Fitness Tracker is one of the lower priced Fitbits on the market. The lightweight watch is available in a variety of colours and offers all-day fitness monitoring and GPS tracking via your phone so you can measure your walks and runs.

Special Features: All day activity and sleep tracking, SMS notifications, water-resistant to 50m, up to five days’ battery life, 15 exercise modes, GPS tracking

Great For: Trusted brand at a great price

Beurer AS 80 Fitness Tracker – Argos, £47.99

The Beurer AS 80 Fitness Tracker is an affordable fitness tracker that is packed full of technology. The band offers all day fitness and sleep tracking, step count and calories burned. You can also set daily activity goals that mean you can achieve your fitness goal one day at a time.

Special Features: All day fitness and sleep tracking, heart rate monitoring, calories burned, sleep quality, splash-proof, silent alarm, goal setting

Great For: Those who want to work towards targets and goals

Moov Now Multi-Sport Fitness Tracker & Audio Coach – Amazon, £66.71

Paired with a smartphone app, Moov Now is like a personal trainer on your wrist. For it’s value, it’s amazing. As well as tracking your steps, heart rate, calorie burn and the usual, you get guided workouts spoken to you through your headphones with all data recorded on the app. It’ll tell you if your running tread is too heavy or your swimming strokes need to be quicker. Data geeks will love how much they can get out of it and improve their exercise.

Special Features: Step, exercise, heart rate and calorie tracker; real time audio coach; Android/iOS compatible app; six month battery life; waterproof

Great For: Motivational pushes and perfecting form

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The Best Stylish Fitness Trackers

Historically many fitness trackers and smartwatches were clunky and purely practical. Today’s products not only offer great technology, there is also plenty of thought and care put into the design. Browse our pick of the prettiest fitness trackers on the market.

Fossil Venture Gen 4 HR Smart Watch – Argos, £199

Fossil are one of the few watch companies that have branched into fitness watches and the care and attention they have put into the design really shows in the Fossil Venture Gen 4 HR Smart Watch. The gold watch doesn’t even look like a fitness tracker at first glance but this glittering style has an in-built heart rate monitor, activity tracking and can be synced with Google Fit.

Special Features: Heart rate monitoring, activity tracking, in-built GPS and contactless payments

Great For: If you want a fitness tracker that doesn’t look like a fitness tracker

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active – Amazon, £203

This bright and bold design of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active is really unique and perfect if you want something stylish that doesn’t look quite like a fitness tracker. The face and strap are interchangeable so you can change up the design when it takes your mood.

Special Features: Interchangeable design, heart rate monitoring, real time guidance from a wellness coach, goal setting, breathing skills, calories burned and sleep tracking

Great For: Those who get bored by the same design easily

Bellabeat Leaf Urban Smart Jewellery – John Lewis, £99.99

A unique take on fitness tracking, the Bellabeat Leaf is the most recognisable piece of smart jewellery. It can be worn as a necklace, a bracelet or clipped like a pedometer and the battery lasts an incredible six months.

Special Features: Meditation and breathing exercises, activity tracking and tracking of reproductive health

Great For: Those looking to start a family

The Best All-Round Fitness Trackers

If you are looking for a great all-rounder with plenty of features at a competitive price then these fitness trackers offer the best all-round experience.

Fitbit Charge 3 Fitness Tracker – Argos, £119.99

The Fitbit Charge 3 is the mid-range offering from the brand, we love the stylish metal finish and the bands are changeable so you can switch the look depending on your mood. With an in-built silent alarm, activity and sleep tracking, weight-loss goals available and breathing exercises , it’s a great option for an all-rounder that won’t eat into too much of your budget.

Special Features: Tracks calories burned, 15+ exercises, goal progress, sleep and heart rate monitor, in-built GPS, Bluetooth connection, receives calls, texts and app notifications and sends replies (Android only), water-resistant to 50m

Great For: Anyone who can’t bear to part from their phone

Withings Nokia Steel HR Activity Tracking Watch – John Lewis, £169.95

The Withings Nokia Steer HR Activity Tracker offers a stylish look that appears to just be a watch at first glance. But it also offers heart rate monitoring, activity and sleep tracking, and instant exercise recognition.

Special Features: Heart rate monitoring, calories burned, goal setting, sleep tracking, waterproof

Great For: Tracking your activity around the clock

Garmin Vivomove HR Sport Smartwatch – John Lewis, £149.99

The Garmin Vivomove HR Sport Smartwatch is sleek and stylish with a rose gold face and simple white band. The watch offers heart rate tracking and stress monitoring to ensure you keep on top of both your physical health and mental health.

Special Features: Heart rate monitoring, calories burned, stress tracking and email and text message syncing

Great For: A stylish look and managing stress

The Best High-Spec Fitness Trackers

If you are taking your fitness journey seriously then browse the best high-spec fitness trackers that offer all the usual features along with fantastic style and plenty of additions such as coaching and goal setting functions.

Fitbit Versa Smart Fitness Watch – John Lewis, £199

The most sophisticated style in the Fitbit collection, the Fitbit Versa is stylish and packed full of features. You can store and play up to 300 songs to keep you motivated during your workout. Coaching apps allow you to work towards your goals at a steady pace and it has all the extra features you would expect from a fitness tracker.

Special Features: On-screen coaching, GPS, water-resistant to 50m, fitness and social media apps, step count, calories burned and activity and sleep tracking

Great For: Splashing out on the best technology

Polar Vantage Multisport Watch – Amazon £249

The Polar Vantage Multisport Watch is perfect for fitness fans that want to track their fitness levels and progression. If you are looking to achieve a PB for a race or simply want to know how your fitness levels are progressing, then this multisport design is the one for you.

Special Features: Heart rate monitor, calories burned, coaching function, integrated GPS including accent and decent, waterproof to 50m

Great For: Serious fitness fans with a goal to achieve

Apple Watch Series 4 with Smartband – John Lewis, £399

For some high-spec all-round technology then the Apple Watch offers everything. It’ll synchronise with your iPhone as well as providing sophisticated all-day heart rate monitoring that will alert you if your heart rate becomes too high or too low. You will also be able to make use of the activity app that will track the quality of each workout.

Special Features: Heart rate monitoring, activity and sleep tracking, dedicated activity app, contactless payments, iPhone syncing

Great For: Technology geeks that want a high-spec insight into their fitness

The Best Waterproof Fitness Trackers

Is swimming going to be part of your fitness training? Then you don’t want to miss out on tracking that progress – so invest in one of these waterproof fitness watches.

Garmin Vivosmart 4 Fitness Tracker – Currys, £99.99

If you are the type of person who is easily stressed out and you are worried about the effect it may have on your health then the Garmin Vivosmart 4 Fitness Tracker has all-day stress tracking and can monitor your daily physical and emotional stress levels. Available in black, berry or silver, this sleek fitness tracker is also waterproof so perfect if you are a regular swimmer.

Special Features: Heart rate monitor, track steps, sleep, calories burned and distance walked, view smartphone messages and notifications, waterproof

Great For: Monitoring your stress levels on a daily basis

Fitfort Smart Fitness Tracker Watch – Amazon £30.99

If you are looking for a cheap and cheerful fitness tracker that does the job then the Fitfort Smart Fitness Tracker Watch performs as your own personal health secretary – tracking your heart rate, blood pressure and steps taken. It will also nudge you to move when you have been inactive for a long period of time and will remind you to drink enough water throughout the day.

Special Features: Blood pressure monitoring, measures heart rate, sleep and calories burned, 14 different training modes

Great For: Those that need little reminders to stay active and hydrated

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