Fitbit Blaze – Fitness Band

Fitbit Blaze is a fitness tracker which is stylish and smart. Fitbit Blaze is a little large and is more masculine so it may not look good with ladies. It is comfortable to wear throughout the day. Fitbit Blaze will motivate you to stay active throughout the day and follow a healthy sleeping pattern. If you are fully dedicated you can utilize your Fitbit Blaze to increase your physical activity, to shed your weight and live a healthy lifestyle.

Best of Fitbit Blaze Features

The frame of Fitbit Blaze is made of steel and is octagonal in shape. The touch screen is covered by gorilla glass.The display is large which is a unique feature.

1) Pure Pulse Heart Rate

It is a feature which tracks your heart rate all day. It can find your heart rate without the use of a chest strap. You will also get an idea about your health status as it gives your resting heart rate and cardio fitness level. You can also find your cardio fitness score using Fitbit Blaze. It is a widely accepted score which gives you an idea about your cardiac health.

Once you start exercising regularly, eat healthy and reach healthy weight you can see improvement in your score in the Fitbit app. Fitbit Blaze calculates Cardio fitness score using certain information like your gender, height, weight, resting heart rate and your physical activity. For more accurate results, wear the tracker to sleep to get  better estimation of your resting heart rate.

It has a feature called guided breathing which is based on your heart rate. This session will help you to manage your stress. It also gives a measure of number of calories burnt in a day.

2) GPS

You can connect your tracker with GPS on your phone to map your routes.

3)  Fitstar Exercise Tutorial

It is a feature in the tracker which will guide you through GIF like animated workout sessions on its watch display that include 8 minute Warm up, 7-minutes work out, 8-minutes abs session with 7 or 10 minutes interval. But the only drawback is Fitbit doesn’t recognize whether you are doing it in the right way or not.

4) Multi Sport Tracking

You can choose from different sports mode like running, walking, cardio etc.

5) Smart track

This feature of Fitbit Blaze automatically recognizes your physical activity. But it will take a long 10 minutes for tracker to recognize your activity so it is better that you set manually if you need accurate results.

6) Work Out Goals and Summary

You will get a summary of each workout once you complete it.

7) Activity Tracker

It tracks your daily activity such as number of steps climbed, distance moved, calories burnt and hourly activity. It can track almost 17 exercises which is appreciative.

8 ) Reminders to Move

It motivates you to be active all day and encourages to take at least 250 steps per hour.

9) Accessory Bands and Frame

Bands are interchangeable. There are leather and metal options for the band and you can choose the one that suits you.

10) Notifications

It gives you call and text alerts and also notifications from Gmail, Facebook etc.

11) Music Control

You can control music in your smart phone using Fitbit Blaze. You can change songs, increase or decrease volume and even pause the song.

12) Sleep Tracking

Fitbit Blaze automatically tracks your sleep duration. It also finds the quality of your sleep and number of hours you spent in each stage of sleep. Tracker uses accelerometer data, variation of heart rate and algorithms to track different stages of sleep; light sleep, REM sleep and deep sleep. This will help you to follow a healthy sleeping pattern.

13) Water Resistance

Fitbit Blaze is water resistant but not water proof. So you have to remove it before swimming or showering.

14) Battery Life

It has a battery life of 5 days which is good.

Fitbit Blaze syncs well with almost all devices like android phones, iPhones, Windows phones etc. You can even download Fitbit app in your tablet or desktop device .You need not have a smart phone to use Fitbit blaze. You can use the Fitbit app to track your water intake, food intake and to plot your weekly weight.

Frequently Asked Questions on Fitbit Blaze

1)Can I set alarms to wake me up in Fitbit Blaze?

Yes, you can set silent alarms in Fitbit Blaze that can wake you up with a silent buzz.

2) Does it have WiFi connectivity?

No, it is dependent on the internet connection of your smart phone.

3) Can I receive call using Fitbit Blaze?

No, you cannot receive calls using the device. You only get call and message alerts.

4) Can we set fitness goals like weight loss goals using Fitbit Blaze?

Yes, you can set fitness goals using the device. You can even spot your weekly weight using the Fitbit app.