What the OPPO Band fitness tracker can do and why would you want to buy it

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

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A handy gadget that will help you fight for a healthy body, good mood and good sleep.

A fitness tracker has everything to help you get in shape. It is suitable for any type of cardio workout, whether it be in the gym, outdoor workout or swimming in the pool.

The gadget is useful even for those who do not plan to play sports: it will track the pulse and blood oxygen saturation, show the weather, help control music and take photos without touching the smartphone. It also has a bright, scratch-resistant screen, so it will last a really long time. To appreciate all the capabilities of a fitness tracker, you need to sync it with your smartphone. For this I used

Monitors health

To be healthy, it is enough to listen to your body - it will always tell you what is wrong. But the daily chores, rules and obligations distract our attention from this. The fitness tracker will help you regain control over your condition and will show in real time what is happening to the body. OPPO Band helps you monitor the following metrics.

Heartbeat

It is individual for each person and at rest can vary between 60-100 beats per minute, depending on age, weight and physical fitness. From lack of sleep, physical and psychological stress, the resting heart rate can increase. OPPO Band will help you track your heart rate both at a specific point in time and over a long period.

To start continuous heart rate monitoring, go to "Control" → "More" → "Workout and health settings" and enable regular heart rate tracking. The fitness tracker can do this continuously or every two or six minutes. The bracelet will warn you if your heart rate at rest or during exercise exceeds the norm.

will help to get your heart rate in order if you are anxious. For this, it has a "Breathing" function. Turn on the gadget for a few minutes, relax, and focus on inhaling and exhaling. By default, the OPPO Band is set at seven breaths per minute. The bracelet will notify you about them with a light vibration.

I tried to breathe less often - inhale and exhale in three vibrations. As a result, the resting heart rate dropped from 69 to 60 beats per minute. This is a great way to switch the autonomic nervous system towards the parasympathetic division and at the same time feel much calmer. Use it and don't thank.

Blood oxygen saturation (SPO2)

Hemoglobin is responsible for oxygen in the body. It is an iron-containing protein that attaches oxygen and then carries it to all tissues and organs. The form of hemoglobin with an oxygen molecule (O2) is called oxyhemoglobin. If the protein is not bound to oxygen, it is in the form of deoxyhemoglobin. The more such "idlers" in the blood, the lower its oxygen saturation (SpO2).

monitors SpO2 levels using pulse oximetry, which uses infrared light. His tracker goes through his wrist. Since oxyhemoglobin absorbs light differently than the “empty” form of deoxyhemoglobin, the technology allows us to assess blood oxygen saturation and notice its deficiency in the body in time.

In the HeyTap Health app, you can see a graph of changes in this indicator by day, week, month and year. You may notice both acute hypoxemia, for example, from being in a stuffy room or extreme excitement, and chronic lack of oxygen, for example, due to diseases of the cardiovascular system or apnea (snoring).

If you are not getting enough sleep, check to see if your body is getting enough oxygen while you sleep. To do this, in the HeyTap Health settings, enable the "Monitor SpO2 values during sleep" function. Select the tracking mode - periodically or continuously.

Daytime activity

A sedentary lifestyle is unhealthy. Even exercising in the gym is not as important as daily activities in the home - getting enough light aerobic work, like walking, prolongs life and reduces the risk of heart problems.

The fitness tracker will motivate you to move more. One tap opens the screen with steps and calories burned, and swipe to the left - a visual graph with all activity indicators for the day, including training time.

You can set yourself a goal for steps and calories. Do not raise the bar from the very beginning - let it be, for example, five to seven thousand steps and 200-300 kcal per day. The main thing is regularly, without omissions and excuses.

In the HeyTap Health app, in the "Health" section, you can find detailed daily statistics: how often you moved and at what time of the day it happened. Also here you can compare the activity on different days. And if you turn on the motion reminder mode, OPPO Band will notify you once an hour to get up and move a little.

Helps during exercise

With the OPPO Band fitness tracker, you can build an optimal training program for yourself and achieve your goals. To do this, it has several convenient functions.

Sports Modes

In the "Sports" section you will find 12 modes: walking, cycling and outdoor games (badminton and cricket), classes on all popular cardiovascular equipment, including a treadmill, ellipse, rowing and stationary bike. There is even swimming and a special yoga regimen.

For runners, OPPO Band offers three modes: outdoor, indoor (on the treadmill) and slimming.

Slimming program

The Run Fat Burn mode helps you maintain your jogging intensity so that your heart rate does not rise above a certain threshold - the so-called fat-burning zone, in which the body uses fat for energy. This approach will not lead to rapid weight loss, but with regular practice it will help you maintain the weight you want.

Workout information

In any training mode, you can see the duration of the activity, calories burned and heart rate. During running and walking, the distance and cadence are additionally displayed, and during swimming - the number of tracks covered and the average pace per 100 meters.

In running and walking workouts, you can set a goal - how many kilometers you want to run, how long to exercise, or how many calories to burn. After that, it remains to start the workout and listen to the voice prompts of the application. You can turn them off if desired.

Workout log

After completing an activity, the bracelet sends data to the application, and you can view it in the "Training log" tab. It displays the total number of sessions and calories burned for all workouts, as well as information for each of them. You can categorize the log data by activity - for example, view only running workouts.

In cardio, you see a graph of your heart rate and pace for the entire workout. The average heart rate for the entire run seemed plausible to me: 134 beats per minute is a normal figure for a speed of 10-12 km / h. The peak of 176 beats per minute, apparently, happened during spontaneous acceleration to the beginning of a bouncy track in headphones. The graph shows two dips in pace: in the first I was tying my shoelaces, in the second I was taking off my shirt.

In terms of distance, these applications approximately coincided with the track - they reduced the run by 30 meters. Perhaps due to two stops in the process.

Works in water

OPPO Band is water resistant and allows you to dive to a depth of 50 meters. With it, you can safely take a shower and practice in the pool. Moreover, the fitness tracker has a special mode for swimming.

Keeps a battery charge up to 12 days

To charge the battery, the fitness tracker must be removed from the bracelet and placed in a special slot. You don't have to do this often: thanks to the powerful chip, it keeps a charge for up to 12 days, so you can even take it on vacation. But remember: some of the fitness tracker's features are energy consuming. For example, continuous tracking of heart rate or SpO2.

Shows notifications

With the OPPO Band fitness tracker, neither your phone mute nor your workout will make you miss an important message. Open HeyTap Health on your smartphone, go to the "Synchronize phone notifications" tab and check the applications from which you want to receive notifications.

To ensure that the connection with the phone is never interrupted, go to the application settings and allow it to run in the background all the time. Now you can quickly view messages while exercising.

Lets you control your music

This is a super handy feature that will surely appeal to headphone cardio enthusiasts. With you, you don't have to go to the phone every time to change the track. One tap on the screen, and you change the music or stop the track, without being distracted from your run.

Tracks sleep

Lack and poor quality of sleep is harmful to health, increases the level of stress, badly affects memory and attention. Chronic sleep deprivation increases your risk of storing belly fat and interferes with weight loss.

With the amount of sleep, things are simple - you just need to remember what time you go to bed and get up. But with quality, everything is much more complicated. Even after a long sleep, you may feel overwhelmed. The OPPO Band fitness tracker will help you figure out the reason.

The bracelet tracks how much time you spent in different phases of sleep, how often you woke up and how long you were awake. The HeyTap Health app gives you tips on how to improve your situation. The bracelet told me to go to bed early and follow the regimen in order to increase the time of the deep sleep phase.

Helps to find a smartphone

Instead of stirring things up in your bag, just go to tools and click Find Phone. The smartphone will respond with a piercing sound that is impossible not to hear.