Fitbit has smartwatches and activity trackers focused on sports and health. With Fitbit Premium you also get a lot of extra options. In this article we give you 5 reasons why you should have this monthly subscription.
What is Fitbit Premium?
You can buy an Apple Watch, but if you’re going to use it for sports, a Fitbit might be the better smartwatch for you. Especially if you also take out a Fitbit Premium subscription. This gives you extra information about your health and, among other things, videos with workouts or meditation sessions.
If you have a Fitbit product, you are not obliged to take out a Fitbit Premium subscription. So the subscription is optional, but is it worth it? That tells iPhoned you in this article. By the way: almost all Fitbit products include 6 months of Fitbit Premium. So you can also test it yourself.
1. Sleep well with personal ‘sleep profiles’
A good night’s sleep is the most important thing for a person. It ensures that you are rested and charged, and gives you a good general feeling. Fitbit Premium helps you with that. Through ‘Sleep Profiles’ you get more insight into your sleep. Based on the data from the sleep analysis, you are assigned a sleeping animal, which gives you insight into your sleeping style in a fun way.
These six animals (giraffe, bear, dolphin, turtle, hedgehog and parrot) all have different sleeping habits. There is no one perfect sleep. Six animals were chosen for their own sleeping habits that correspond to common users’ sleeping patterns.
2. Train much smarter with Fitbit Premium
Of course, the Fitbit also focuses on sports! Based on your fitness goals and what your body needs, you can listen to or watch a lot of workouts with Fitbit Premium. All your favorite trainers and brands contribute to this science-backed database of workout videos.
In addition, you exercise (remotely) with your Fitbit friends. These don’t even require a Premium account! Fitbit has special group challenges (in the form of games) to make achieving goals more fun together. There are also tailor-made personal sports programs.
Furthermore, Fitbit Premium helps you determine whether it is wise to exercise, or whether it is perhaps time to give your body some rest. Based on your heart rate variability, sleep and your recent activities, your Fitbit with the Premium account gives you advice. This is what the company calls your “daily recovery score” in the Fitbit app.
3. Guidance in dealing with stress
Being fit is not only done in your body. Your mind and mental health play an important role. To understand signs of stress in your body, the “stress management score” helps you determine if you can take on more challenges, or if you need to take time to recharge. Based on your ‘stress management score’ and your ‘recovery score’, Fitbit Premium can recommend that you do a meditation session, which you can find in the Fitbit app.
In collaboration with, among others, calm for example, you have access to many mindfulness sessions. Improve your mental health with a smartwatch? It’s possible with Fitbit Premium!
4. Discover Fitbit’s Health Report
Want even more insights into your health with your Fitbit? That’s what the health report is for. In it you will find data about your activity, sleep, heart rate and weight of the last twelve months.
You can view that report in the Fitbit app, or have it exported directly. The latter is useful, for example, if you want to share your data with a healthcare provider. The health report provides an even more accurate picture of your fitness and health.
5. Now also in Dutch
Finally, you naturally want to understand what your Fitbit is telling you. That’s why Dutch videos have recently been added to the Fitbit Premium app!
This means that you can do Dutch workouts, yoga sessions, mindfulness and guided breathing sessions via the app. These were made by well-known Dutch influencers such as Judith Noordzij and Lienke de Jong.
Why should you take Fitbit Premium?
Without Premium, you have access to the most important basic insights such as activity, heart rate and sleep. With Premium you get access to all the above functions.
When you buy a new smartwatch or activity tracker from Fitbit, you will receive 6 months of Fitbit Premium with almost all products (Inspire 3, Luxe, Charge 5, Versa 2, Versa 3, Versa 4, Sense and Sense 2). Do you not want to pay after those 6 months? Then you can simply cancel the subscription. If you want to continue with these extras, you don’t pay completely blue. A subscription to Fitbit Premium costs only 8.99 euros per month. With an annual subscription you only pay per year 79.99 euros (converted 6.67 euros per month).
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