The quick take For an up-front $400 price, you get three connected fitness devices that can help you track just about everything in your life and help you reach your ambitious fitness goals. The UA Band, UA Scale and UA Heart Rate are set up to work together right out of the box, and keeping everything working couldn't be easier. The hardware is great, but the real glue is Under Armour's Record app, which can pull in data from all three sources, but also your existing apps and fitness gear. The HealthBox is very clearly targeted at those willing to spend a bit on serious fitness equipment, and in that market it has a real shot and winning over customers.

'Your connected fitness system' Under Armour HealthBox Full review In the connected fitness device space, everyone's trying to carve out an edge. Entrenched players like Fitbit, Jawbone and Misfit are the household names that have solid sales and good brand value, and they're followed by dozens of other players getting into the game — both altogether new names, and old names pushing into new markets. Under Armour is in the second category, being a well-known and respected brand in sportswear, but hardly at the top of mind when it comes to consumer electronics. Verizon is offering the Pixel 4a for just $10/mo on new Unlimited lines The attempt to change that vision starts here, with the $400 Under Armour HealthBox — a package deal that includes a wearable fitness tracker, a connected scale and an accurate connected heart rate monitor. Under Armour has brand equity in the fitness world and marketing prowess to match, but isn't going in on this alone — it has tapped HTC for its design and consumer electronic expertise. This partnership started over a year ago and (almost) yielded the ill-fated HTC Grip in 2015, but the HealthBox seems to have far more promise in it. Being targeted at fitness-focused individuals that already recognize Under Armour as a premium brand, pushed along by the consumer electronics prowess of HTC, it seems like a combo that may have legs. We're going to find out what the HealthBox experience is all about in our full review — read on. Before we get started About this review I (Andrew Martonik) am writing this review after five weeks using the HealthBox. For the first three weeks of evaluation, the UA Record app and device firmware were non-final, but were updated thereafter to finalized versions. For a majority of my testing, the UA Record app was run on a Nexus 6P. All depictions of the software in this review are of the final, publicly-available app.

Out of box experience Under Armour HealthBox Setup process Getting started with everything in the HealthBox is pretty simple, so long as you have a little time to sit down and get it all up and running. One of the benefits of getting all three items in a single box is that you're likely to set it all up at once, increasing the chances that you can use them all together. By the time your phone has installed the app, you can have everything unboxed and ready When you open up the HealthBox (and it's quite literally a box), you'll find it's all fairly self-explanatory. You find the UA Record app in Google Play, and in the time it takes to download and install you'll have everything else unboxed and ready to go. The UA Record app and some quick tips on papers in the box will walk you through the basic process — pull out a tab to turn on the UA Scale, and press-and-hold the power button the UA Band. The UA Band pairs quickly over Bluetooth and works right away, while the UA Scale will take a moment to find your home Wi-Fi and create a profile for you as soon as you stand on it. The UA Heart Rate is a bit of a different case, since there really isn't any setup — it detects when it's worn, and will pair with the UA Record app the first time you go to use it for a workout. The UA Record app will give you a few quick tips on using each device when it's paired to the app, but for the most part you'll learn as you go here — and that's fine, because each one is really easy to understand. Read: Our first hands-on with the Under Armour HealthBox

Let's get fit Using the Under Armour HealthBox The HealthBox is a complete package meant to kick off your fitness tracking without making several separate purchases or piecing things together from different companies. But each of the three parts (or four, when you count the UA Record app that ties it all together) offer something different, and I'd argue one is far more intriguing and important than the others. Here's how everything comes together in regular use.

UA Record app The hub of the whole HealthBox experience is the UA Record app, which has been available for some time but has received a considerable revamp to coincide with the launch of the new hardware. UA Record is a hub for recording all of your activities — separated into main categories of activity (steps), nutrition, fitness, sleep and weight — as well as your heart rate. But UA Record goes beyond just keeping this data, it also helps visualize and act on everything you put into the app to help you make better choices. You can set goals, see recommendations, compare and compete with friends, and create your own challenges.

This isn't tied to the UA hardware — you can use all of the popular trackers out there Though Under Armour would of course prefer that you use the HealthBox hardware, the UA Record app also integrates with dozens of popular fitness apps and hardware solutions. Link up services like Google Fit, MyFitnessPal and MapMyRun (both of which are now owned by UA), or pull in data from your Fitbit, Withings or Garmin hardware — it can all live in harmony, along with Under Armour's own hardware, in the UA Record app. That's an incredibly important point for those who already have some hardware and are interested in maybe shifting over to Under Armour's fitness gear, but it also means that adding anything from Under Armour doesn't have to be a replacement for your current gear — the only decision to make is using the UA Record app. And if you are ready to move to UA Record, it doesn't mean that you have to stop using your current services. So long as they're integrated with UA Record, you can keep using them and that data will pull back to UA Record. You can keep tracking your runs in MapMyRun, for example, and see that workout data added to UA Record, or if you don't need finely-detailed stats you can track and log workouts straight into UA Record.

As an all-encompassing fitness app, UA Record performs pretty well. For those who have a tough time keeping up with all of their tracking and goals, UA Record offers a really simple and easy-to-understand interface. The main dashboard makes it easy to see all of your current statistics, and tapping into each gives you a daily, weekly or monthly view of how you're doing. The only thing really missing here — which is by no means specific to the UA Record app — is the "why" part of all of this data. Sure I can see my resting heart rate was 45 last night, but what does that mean? Something like watching your weight go down over time is self-explanatory, but what about body fat percentage? I'm allowed to set any goal I want on fitness, but what's right for me? These are all questions that will require more information from a third party — hopefully a professional trainer or physician — to answer and make the most of what you get here.

UA Band Wearable fitness trackers are a crowded space, and the UA Band jumps right in to fight the established players. And though it's just one-third of the HealthBox products, chances are consumers are mostly focused on this wearable. Thankfully, the UA Band is a departure — in both hardware and software — from the HTC Grip of last year. It tries to do less in the software and interface, and in turn is physically much smaller and more comfortable. All of the UA Band's electronics — including its 1.3-inch POLED touch display — are contained in a small portion of the full device, leaving the band to be thin, flexible and comfortable. You can choose between a short and long band attachment (which are switched with a SIM tool, interestingly enough), and they both attach securely at the bottom using a loop and two small teeth that set into notches on the long side of the band. The UA Band is thankfully a huge departure from the HTC Grip experience I found the UA Band to be extremely comfortable, to the point where I would forget that I had it on, which is exactly what Under Armour was going for — it's meant to be worn 24 hours a day. My skin was never irritated or bothered by having it on, and I only chose to take it off to shower; though that isn't necessary, as the UA Band is water-resistant (though, importantly, it is not waterproof), and mine even managed several minutes at the bottom of a hot tub (whoops!) with no issues. You interact with the UA Band through a basic set of taps and swipes on the touch-enabled display, but the software is so basic you won't ever be spending more than 10 seconds at a time looking at it. You get five main panels — clock, activity, sleep, heart rate and fitness — with each one offering only two or three deeper levels of interaction. You can tap a few times on the clock to get into settings, on activity to see distance and calories, on sleep to see your current stats, on heart rate to take a current reading, and on fitness to start tracking a workout.

The UA Band works as a standard step-counting pedometer, but can also actively track distinct workouts all on its own — including connecting directly to the UA Heart Rate for monitoring and calorie burn statistics. Of course using just the band won't give you as accurate of data as a phone with GPS when it comes to something like running or cycling. But being able to quickly track a specific activity from your wrist, without a phone on you, and have it sync back to UA Record is useful. There also are workouts — like playing a soccer match, or doing yoga — that aren't well suited to having a phone on you at all, and using just the UA Band and Heart Rate together will be the best possible way to track that activity. You can choose in the UA Record settings to have one custom workout type available — in addition to the standard run, cycle and gym choices — which is unfortunately limited (I'd prefer to configure all four slots), but having the option to choose in the settings means you don't have to swipe or tap much on the UA Band itself. Being able to start a workout right from your wrist, without a phone, is important An intriguing part of the UA Band experience is the automatic sleep tracking it offers, which will trigger as soon as it detects that you're blissfully counting sheep. The band keeps track of your total sleep duration, amount of light or deep sleep, how often you were awake through the night, and your resting heart rate. You'll have to tell it to stop the sleep tracking in the morning, though that's a bit easier if you choose to use the UA Band as an alarm — I actually found its subtle vibration pattern to be a preferable alarm to a noisy chime from my phone next to the bed. The UA Band also smartly disables its Bluetooth when you're sleeping, which surely saves a large portion of your battery. Under Armour quotes five days of battery life out of the UA Band, impressive considering it has just a 112 mAh battery inside. Wearing mine every single day, including overnight sleep tracking, I usually found it could get through a full six days without worry. The band unfortunately uses a proprietary magnetic charging cable (necessitated to maintain the band's water resistance), but considering you only have to charge for about 20 minutes every five or six days, it's tough to be upset with it. I think a good number of people will be interested in picking up a UA Band without the extra components of the HealthBox, but if you buy it outside of its bundle it'll set you back a cool $180. That puts it right up there with the other high-end fitness trackers, which all have their own big selling features.

UA Scale Scales can be intimidating for people — they usually don't want to be told what they weigh every single day. And those who have decided that having a scale is important likely have a basic bathroom scale that gets used regularly ... but maybe not consistently. The UA Scale is hoping to change everyone's mind about using a scale, and convincing you starts with the design and continues with the functionality. HTC's design skills are on display with the UA Scale — it looks nicer most other scales you'll find, and assuming you have a decent chunk of floor space (it's over 14 inches across) to allocate you won't have a problem leaving it out for everyone to see. And that's particularly important because the UA Scale has to recalibrate (it takes two or three readings) each time it's moved. Under Armour is of course hoping you'll weigh in twice a day with it, too, which means you're more likely to keep it out and accessible. This is an absolutely gorgeous scale, but you'll have to really want it When you stand on the scale you'll see the top section light up as a dot-matrix display, which will give you all of the information you'd need out of a scale. You'll see a weight readout (pounds or kilograms, your choice), the scale will confirm that it's identified the proper personal profile, and when you stand a bit longer it will read your body fat percentage through your feet — a neat trick. The UA Scale can follow up to eight people concurrently, linking back to their UA Record app of choice, and is set to offer over five months of battery life (out of four AA batteries) if you have four people using it twice a day. UA Record will of course automatically track your weight and body fat percentage over time, and update you on how your current stats match up with your set goal. The app is also very discrete about your weight — it doesn't display in the regular dashboard unless you want it to, meaning you can track your weight without being constantly focused on it every time you launch it. But no matter how good the scale is or how much it offers to the experience, for most people it's going to be a tough sell to spend $180 (the same price as the UA Band) on just a scale — particularly one you only use for 20 seconds twice a day. Of course it offers consistency and ease of use for those who want to track their weight progress, and the price of the UA Scale itself is a bit masked as part of the HealthBox, but it may be a point that pushes people away from buying the whole package.