I found the Luxe light and comfortable to wear. Consumers who subscribe to the Fitbit Premium service ($10 per month or $80 per year) also get a trio of subscores, entitled Responsiveness, Exertion Balance, and Sleep Patterns, that can help identify things you need to work on. It even lets you log daily “reflections,” noting whether you feel “calm” or “very stressed.”Īll that data gets analyzed in a way that tells you how your body responds to stress, the company says, resulting in a score between 0 and 100. The app then factors in your sleep patterns over time and whether you’re getting too little or too much physical activity. Sensors track your heart rate, breathing, and other health metrics. Dig a little deeper and you find statistics from your latest workout, your sleep score, and now a stress management score. It monitors your daily step count, calorie burn, real-time heart rate, and average resting heart rate. It holds a heck of a lot of data, probably more than most people know what to do with.

The robust Fitbit app is what has set the company apart from the competition for years now. H ere’s a closer look at what we learned about the device. The Luxe starts at $150 and is available through Fitbit’s website and major retailers. In Consumer Reports’ testing it scored very high when it comes to areas like step-count accuracy and overall ease of use, landing it among the top tracker models in our ratings (available to CR members). And when you compare it with other fitness trackers on the market, it’s actually one of the better options out there. The functionality still falls well short of your average smartwatch, and the sleek design and tiny display make it tough to take advantage of the information the device does provide.īut the fact is the Luxe is not a smartwatch. What I found was that while the Luxe did provide me with some helpful insights into my health and wellness, plus the fitness-tracking features many people have come to expect from Fitbit, the tracker is not for everyone. As a mom of two who’s been working from home since the pandemic started, I was pretty curious about that last one.

Over the course of five days, I wore it 24/7, tracking my daily workouts, sleep patterns, and, yes, stress management.

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