Live Well with Samsung’s Wearable Devices

Samsung has teamed up with top health, fitness and well-being influencers to help inspire you to lead a healthy, balanced and active life. Together, we look at how to eat, sleep and move well with the help of their tips, and by using the Samsung Health app and Gear Sport and Fit2 Pro. Ready, set, track.

Eat Well

Annie Clark is a health and well-being advocate. She created her blog Mind, Body, Bowl as a space to explore holistic approaches to life, be that in eating, exercise or lifestyle. She is a qualified yoga instructor and lives in London.

Annie uses her Gear Sport and Samsung Health app to track the nutritional values of different food and ingredients, giving her an overview of her daily intake of food and drink.

She told us, “most mornings I am up and out of the house pretty early. I have always been a fan of eating a hearty breakfast and it is almost certainly my favourite meal of the day. I recently started using the Samsung Health app with my Gear Sport watch to track my nutrition on the go, in line with my marathon training.”

She shares a delicious yet simple breakfast recipe, along with tips to stay on track of your food intake.

View Annie’s recipes here.

Sleep Well

Lucy Wyndham-Read is a YouTube fitness expert with over 293,000 followers. She thrives off showing the world how easy it is to get healthy, fit and confident and keeps it real and fun along the way.

Lucy often has a bad night’s sleep and was excited to hear that her new Samsung Gear Sport and Samsung Health app offered sleep tracking and goal setting. Together with the devices, she shares her top tips to get a good night’s rest.

She says; “If you get a good night’s sleep you have so much more energy, which means we are likely to make healthier choices like choosing to exercise or eating the right foods. It also boosts your immune system and helps you to manage your weight.”

Here are Lucy’s tips for a good night sleep:

• Use the Samsung Health app to set yourself a bedtime and wake-up time. The app and watch will give you a reminder of when to go to bed so you don’t miss it. I challenged myself to be in bed from 10.30pm to 7am, Monday to Friday, so that I had a consistent routine.
• Avoid caffeine before bed. You can log your caffeine intake in your Samsung Health app and on your watch, so it’s really easy to keep an eye on those caffeine levels.
• Switch off from social; avoid taking your phone to bed which can lead to scrolling through endless feeds.

Move Well

As a World Champion fitness model, Shaun Stafford has attracted a loyal audience across his social media platforms. He has been involved in the health and fitness industry for the best part of 15 years and acted as a global educator and presenter for several brands and top magazines. When he’s not training hard at the gym, Shaun spends quality time with his wife and son Lucas.

Shaun has recently got hands-on with the Samsung Gear devices, using the Fit2 Pro and IconX to enhance his workouts. He shares with us his top 2018 tech fitness hacks:

• Put measureable goals on your workout, and track your improvement over time.
• Track your calorie/food intake in relation to what you are burning using My Fitness Pal in Samsung Health.
• Listening to music to drive your workout to help motivation.

He explains that “not only are the IconX great headphones and music storage, they are also a fitness tracker. They give you key variables like your distance and speed whilst you are running to give you general performance feedback”

Watch his videos here.

As an endurance athlete, Amy Hughes has raised awareness by her mammoth challenge of running 53 marathons in 53 consecutive days, in 53 different cities in the UK, back in 2014. Her aim is to inspire others and motivate everyone to get involved in fitness.

Amy shares her top tips to stay motivated and achieve her goals:

• Preparation – ensure to pack your kit/equipment the night before and get a good night’s sleep to ensure you are in the best frame of mind for your workout, I use the Samsung Gear Sport and Samsung Health app to measure my sleep efficiency
• Music – listening to a great playlist using the IconX encourages you to keep going and push yourself for longer
• Fitness tracking – setting goals and tracking your workout on the Samsung Health app and through my Gear Sport helps me to see my everyday improvements
• Planning work outs – ensure to plan when you’re going to do your workout, as well as what you’ll be doing, to help push past the January barrier and stick to your regime

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