People are starting to become more educated about the things that they put into their body. People are watching their calorie intake and are exercising whenever they can. Each year, more and more people are looking to get healthy and to get fit. I think smart glasses might be the next big tool that helps people reach their fitness goals and helps people to get healthy.

Mobile technology has already had a big impact on fitness as a whole. Smart phones are an incredibly handy tool when it comes to tracking things. Smart phones also have a library of fitness apps available for use at any time. With that being said, smart phones are inconvenient to use during a workout or during any other fitness related activities. That’s why I think smart glasses and other wearable technologies are the next big tools in fitness. When you think about it wearable technology is already changing the fitness realm with things like FitBit. Anyway, I think smart glasses are going to help take fitness to a new level.

I think smart glasses are going to take fitness to a new level, because they can track and display information directly in front the user’s eyes. Not only that, but most smart glasses can be controlled hands-free. While smart phones are incredibly handy, they can be pretty disruptive during a workout. With a phone, if someone wants to check their progress during a workout, then they have to reach in their pockets, pull out the phone, and then use their hands to interact with it. Phones force you to completely stop what you are doing to check information. Smart glasses on the other hand allow you to check information quickly while barely interrupting what you’re doing.

Not only are smart glasses able to be controlled hands-free, but they are also able to do a lot of things. Just like a smart phone, smart glasses are able to run different apps. Augmented reality, sensors, hands-free interaction, and glance-able information also leaves a lot of room for innovation and different uses. So, how exactly can smart glasses be used for personal health and fitness related things? Well, let me tell you.

Below are some of the ways that smart glasses can be used for fitness and personal health.

Hands-Free Tracking

A smart phone is able to track a lot of things, but like I’ve said several times before, they are inconvenient to check and use while working out. Luckily, smart glasses can also track things if they have the right apps. Whether it’s weight, caloric intake, how far you’ve walked, or whatever, smart glasses can help track that information and help you easily check it.

Overall, smart glasses really make things easy due to the way they display information and accept information. Considering you can easily track different stats and access those stats with the right apps, I think a lot more people will be inclined to do so. Nobody wants to struggle with their pocket while they are on a run, but if they can track and check information while running … I don’t see why they wouldn’t.

Fitness Training

You can easily spot people who are new to working out, because they are usually doing certain things wrong. People learn what works and what doesn’t overtime. With that being said, smart glasses can definitely help speed up that learning process.

Smart glasses can easily display videos, instructions and other things that can teach people good tips, good form, and all kinds of other helpful fitness related stuff. Not only that, but smart glasses, with the right app, could take advantage of a wearers stats to provide them with workout instructions. For example, if a person ran a mile for the past few days, the smart glasses could tell them to increase their pace or to increase the distance they are running. Another example would be that if a person has been lifting a certain amount of weight and has been doing a certain amount of reps for a while, then the smart glasses could tell them to increase their reps or weight.

Overall, smart glasses can easily be taken advantage of and can be used for fitness training. Google Glass has already received a couple of apps that do things like the above, and they have been well received.

Motivation and Challenges

I think a lot of people quit working out, because they don’t see the progress they are making. Smart glasses can help show people their progress and even encourage them to make more. Smart glasses, with the right apps, could track people’s personal bests and even encourage them to try and beat them. If a person knows what they achieved last time they worked out, then they are more likely to try and push beyond that. An app that encourages people to beat their last “score” can really help someone make some good fitness gains.

Not only that, but with augmented reality smart glasses can give people a way to compete against themselves. For example, smart glasses and augmented reality can be used to give people a way to race against a virtual ghost of themselves that is based on their previous run. Stuff like that. Google Glass is already receiving applications that do things like this which is pretty awesome.

Conclusion

So, yeah. I think smart glasses are changing fitness and that they are going to continue to change fitness as we know it. Fitness applications are already coming out for Google Glass and there are even smart glasses dedicated to different fitness activities coming out. As smart glasses get more affordable (the price of an average smart phone), I think we’re going to see a lot more people using them during fitness activities.

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