Atlas Wristband Review - fitness band for strength training

What is Atlas Wristband

This development company Atlas Wearables. Funds for the production of a unique gadget collected via crowdfunding on Indiegogo and got more than expected.

Atlas Wristband - Bracelet, who teaches the user to engage in sports and at the same time he is studying.

This tracker that tracks the performance not only at run-time, cardio, but also during weight training. He does it through pulse sensor, accelerometer and gyroscope. Atlas monitors changes in body position in space, automatically recognizes the exercise and the number of repetitions he said.

The package, in addition to the obligatory USB-charging cable, includes a strap to which a a magnet attached mobile unit with a touch screen and a heart rate monitor on the back side.

This unusual design allows you to read information from the display as a clock, without turning his hand into an unnatural position, as is the case with trackers to the screen.

The display appears larger (15 × 30 mm), but make no mistake: working area much smaller than he housing (128 × 64 pixels). However, all that is necessary to see and read, easily seen and read.

The developers have positioned Atlas as a tracker, which is to replace the coach and motivate independent study.

Let's say you do not have time or do not hesitate to go to the gym. Take the bracelet and install the application. It will show you how to perform the exercises with the help of educational videos and even will give the finished training, and Tracker will keep track of whether you're doing well. The system generates a report every week to the post office sends reminder that you have done (or not done) and how to plan a new workout.

Ease of use

Atlas is not designed to track activity, wear it the whole day long useless. This tracker, which should be worn only during training.

At Gadget wide strap. Actually tracker with the main filling is inserted into it only half. It turns out a large design that touches the clothes and tangibly felt in the hand. By the way, just on the left. The bracelet is designed so that the right hand did not put on, so that left-handers will not always be convenient to deal with it.

When working with iron is only a plus: you do not forget that wearing the tracker will be careful not to will break the device, you will not touch their shells. But always wear it uncomfortable.

In addition, during the training the battery sits down quickly, and Tracker for daily use to charge twice a week like you do not want. Many ordinary fitness bracelet model "pedometer + heart rate monitor" working for months on a single battery.

switching button and selecting the exercise is successful, so that during the training it accidentally nazhmosh.

Using this button, you need to manage and tapov bracelet during training: to switch between exercises, making data how much weight you used during the occupation, to adjust the number of repetitions, if suddenly Atlas made a mistake and found them wrong.

application features

The tracker works in a team with the application, which presents more than a hundred exercises that are available when working with a bracelet. All their tracker is able to recognize and even be one of your exercise program.

Each exercise is accompanied by a certificate which muscles are involved in the work, as well as how to properly perform an approach. For this is a step by step description of action and a short video. You only need to watch and repeat.

If the list does not find it necessary to exercise, you can create it yourself, write down and give a name.

App - it's access to the system, which helps to take control of the entire sporting life. Atlas really motivated: to send letters to the post office and offers new exercises, monitors, if you charge too much the same muscle group, and advises to pay attention to the error.

How to train with Atlas Wristband

The user needs to go through the standard procedure of registration, enter the parameters and how to learn what exercises he can do without a coach, and a hike in the gym.

The Atlas contains popular and effective exercises, which require a minimum of equipment, except that the dumbbell or barbell in handy. In this bracelet, like a real trainer will monitor not only by what exercise you do, but how well you do it. If you boil the pot, then repeat simply not counted. His, of course, you can always manually add the gadget in memory, but it is a signal that you are flawed.

Training is available in two modes:

• Free style. In this case, the tracker itself detects movements that the user performs. If something goes wrong, there is always an opportunity to improve the data and to correct information about the training.
• Finished training. This is a list of exercises that need to be performed in a certain sequence, made up by a developer.

Gadget records everything that you have done, says the activity time and rest. All data available for detailed analysis and study.

After each workout, sync your bracelet with your smartphone. This procedure is not automatic, so do not forget to enter data into the application.

Pros and cons of using

It's really a smart bracelet, which can be very much. At one point, there is everything you could wish for, from the banal measurement and ending statement of global goals and smart tips.

Files protected from water, then there is even a heavy workout in which you sweated without damaging the device. Taking into account how much it costs Atlas compared with professional trackers, this is a very promising gadget.

One application can replace a small sports encyclopedia.

But sometimes it seems that this bracelet smarter user, especially in the beginning of love. The application should be dealt with long and hard, including with a dictionary, especially if you are new to the sport, and the phrase "deadlift" you does not speak Russian even about.

In the beginning you need to use often correct bracelet, which considered that you do not exercise, or yourself, when once again get stuck in navigation and instructions. We have to take breaks between sets, to correct the data that took Atlas. It is exhausting more than training. You need to initially be fantastically motivated to spend time on training, and on the study of the gadget.

Eventually, of course, the situation is changing for the better. Gadget helps laid out in full, replace the training diary, impartially records successes and gives useful advice. So it's hard familiarity with the device is well worth the time and effort.

Layfhaker thanks Store Medgadgets.ru for providing the test device.