Fitness Tracking for Paddleboarding

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On land, fitness trackers are great for tracking heart rate, distance, calories, and more; but what about when you’re paddling on the water? Depending on your goals, there is certainly a solution for you.

Apple Solutions – if you have a waterproof case or bag, your iPhone downloading an app like https://paddlelogger.com/ can track time, speed, distance, and calories. Paddle Logger also offers an Apple Watch app that monitors heart rates and integrates with Apple Health fills your Activity Rings.

FitBit – One way that you can track paddleboarding on your FitBit or any other fitness tracker is to log it as a comparable exercise.

For instance, paddleboarding is generally in the same boat calories-wise as running. So, if you want to go paddle boarding for an hour, you can simply log the exercise like running and have it be around the same in terms of numbers.

You’ll just need to remember, though, which times you used running for paddleboarding in case you get mixed up and can’t remember those times that you actually went running.

Cycle through some of the other fitness categories on your device and find ones that are similar in intensity to paddleboarding. Then, stick with those and find ways to remember which ones were the water-based activities.

Garmin – Garmin has embraced paddle sports. Many models feature sets for paddle sports includes stroke count, stroke rate and distance per stroke.