Healbe Gobe 2 Fitness Tracker Review
Gone are the days when you had to maintain a regular record of your body weight and hours of workout at the gym. In this modern era, technology is here to help make things much simpler and convenient for you. You must have heard about fitness trackers. These are worn on your wrist and are available in various types and with different features. An ordinary one will help you keep track of the number of steps you walk each day. If you are willing to pay a bit more, you will find trackers that can also keep track of your heartbeats, calories burnt, and hours of sleep. High-end ones double up as a watch and also give you notifications for incoming calls and messages. In this article, we take a look at the Healbe Gobe 2 review.
What Exactly Is Healbe Gobe 2?
There are several manufacturers of fitness trackers on the market. Most of you must have heard and also used Healbe fitness bands. It gives you various types of vital information about your health and also keeps track of your calories intake and output. Healbe Gobe 2 is an updated version of Healbe. It comes in an improved and new version of the original Healbe fitness band and packs in quite a few awesome features, which are quite accurate.
The Design
The Healbe Gobe 2 comes in an improved design that is pretty large, considering the fact that it is supposed to be worn around the wrist. Across the wrist, it measures around 2.25 inches and about 1.5 inches wide. Although it will initially appear slightly bulky, you will get over the feeling once you understand the features that are packed in the device. This fitness tracker comes with a full-time display. However, you can also opt to view the display occasionally by simply pressing a button at the side of the tracker. You can view your heart rate, the battery life, steps taken, calories, and much more.
Although Healbe advertises that the device battery life lasts for 2 full days, you may have to charge it every 1.5 days to keep it going all the time. The best part is that this fitness tracker is easily customizable. You can easily change the color of the band to suit your preference. Some of the colors available include yellow, purple, white, blue, black, and red.
Features
Here are some of the features of the Healbe Gobe 2 fitness tracker.
- Calorie Tracking: One of the best features of the Healbe Gobe 2 is its ability to track nutrients and calories almost automatically. The device collects all the relevant information and tells you whether you are in a calorie deficit or calorie credit state by display the data on the screen. This information is calculated by subtracting the calories burned through different activities from the total calories you have consumed.
- Blood Pressure: There are many of you who suffer from blood pressure problems. The Healbe Gobe 2 will be a good device to have around if you seriously wish to keep track of your blood pressure. It comes with a heart rate monitor, which has become a standard thing for fitness trackers. It helps to keep track of your blood pressure with an accuracy of almost 3%.
- Stress Level Tracking: Keeping track of your stress level is a much-needed feature which will be useful for many of you who lead a stressful life. It is needless to say that excess stress can easily put your health at risk and invite several diseases to enter your body. The Healbe Gobe 2 tracker keeps a regular record of your heart rate. Whenever it detects a significant rise in your heart rate it automatically detects stress. However, this is only applicable when you are not doing any physical activity to justify the rise. The device displays the stress level on a scale of 5.
- Hydration Tracking: Drinking enough water every day is very important to remain well hydrated all the time. If you fail to do so you may easily feel dehydrated and drained out without any reason. Although you may think that you are having enough water each day, there may be room for improvement. This is where the Healbe Gobe 2 tracker scores above many other competitors. It automatically monitors your hydration level and it will vibrate to remind you to have water whenever it senses the need for water in your body. This feature is especially beneficial for those of you who have tons of work to do every day and often forget to have enough water.
- Sleep Tracking: Sleeping for sufficient hours of time each day is also important to remain alert and attentive all the time. If you deprive your brain of the minimum hours of sleep every day, it will soon give rise to several heal issues. You may suffer from insomnia and give rise to stress and depression. This fitness tracker goes beyond any ordinary sleep tracking band. It shows you the REM sleep cycles throughout the night and also displays the heart rate response in each cycle. This makes it one of the most accurate sleep tracking devices on the market.
How Does It Work?
Most of you may wonder how is it possible for a device to keep track of so many things going on in your body, especially the amount of calories burned and consumed. Well, to put things in a simple manner, Healbe comes with an impedance sensor, which is capable enough to calculate the amount of water inside and outside the cells of your skin. Keeping track of the movement of water inside the cells will help the tracker to keep track of things such as consumption of sugar, calories, protein, and carbs.
You can easily buy the Healbe Gobe 2 tracker on the official Healbe website for a price of $199. Apart from the device, you will also get a charging cable and a charging dock.
Pros
- Tracks calorie intake automatically.
- Tracks hydration levels, hours of sleep, and stress levels very easily and accurately.
Cons
- Design is very bulky.
- Battery life is not very impressive.
About Becca Shaeffer
Becca Shaeffer is our resident health nut. An Ohio native, she loathes for the day she can quit her day job and move to somewhere warmer. When she's not at the gym, she's either hacking her way through skin treatments or thinking about her favorite cheat meal - thin crust pizza with anchovies and jalapenos.
