Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)- A new study showed that fitness applications, which are used to monitor your movement and activity, have many benefits..
One of the studies, published last week, looked at many experiments, and found that the use of a program to monitor physical movement could increase weekly activity and daily steps..
It turned out that monitoring of physical activities has increased between more than 16 thousand participants.
The researchers studied data from 121 random control and 141 comparative studies, to know the effect of exercise screens, such as those in phone applications, on daily, moderate, strong, and sitting physical activity.
Research has shown that the use of fitness applications has led to an increase in daily physical activity by 1,235 steps per day, and moderate and strong physical activity at a rate of 48.5 minutes a week.
According to the study, the effect on the time of sitting was small.
قد يهمك أيضاً"People who use devices to monitor their activities and wearable devices are more active than others," said Rasmos Tolstop Larsen, a researcher at the Public Health Department at Copenhagen University..
Larsen explained that the effectiveness of the fitness monitoring devices was among the questions that are being investigated commonly since their appearance in the market, but this study takes the largest comprehensive look so far so far..
This comes as a result of many people aspiring to move again during the epidemic, which created conditions that encourage more lethal behavior.
If you hope that the year 2022 is more active than the previous year, Larsen recommended using a monitor or applications available on your smartphone.
"The devices are cheap, simple, and innovative..We can say that it encourages people to do more activities in a safe way..
Dr. Mitch Patel, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Vice President of Clinical Transformation at "Ascency", said that the activity observer alone may not be sufficient to achieve success.
"Changing behavior is always difficult..The use of an activity monitoring tool, such as those available in smartphones and other devices, can be an important part of the efforts made to increase physical activity..
Other research in this field indicated that it works better when combining it with programs that aim to change behavior, according to Patel..
قد يهمك أيضاًDana Santas, a physical fitness contribution to CNN and a trained person and body for professional athletes, indicated that tracking applications are not necessary to be electronic..
She added that a notebook or anything else can be used.
"When the Apple watch sends me a message saying: You can still achieve this, this motivates me to do all that I did not do, which you tell me my watch, such as reaching 10 thousand steps or standing for a more time.".
Experts agreed that setting goals, adding incentives using a physical activity tracker, may be what it takes to move your body again.
