We’re thrilled to announce that Fitbit has acquired FitStar, one of the largest platforms for delivering personalized video-based exercise experiences on mobile devices! You may know of FitStar from their top-rated personal trainer and yoga apps, which offer tailored exercise program designed specifically for you. FitStar has also...
We’re excited to feature a few recipes from award-winning chef and best-selling author Rocco DiSpirito‘s new book, Cook Your Butt Off!, which includes bar codes for each recipe which can be scanned and automatically added to your Fitbit food log! You can order Rocco DiSpirito’s new book now. To whip up something delicious...
When we hear about Fitbit users who’ve reached their goals, we love to share the news! Kodi S. surpassed his goals— beyond what he even thought possible! Here is Kodi’s success story, in his own words. “Growing up, I would have never been considered a “natural” athlete, nor an active person. By the age of 26, I had...
We’re excited to feature a few recipes from award-winning chef and best-selling author Rocco DiSpirito‘s new book, Cook Your Butt Off!, which includes bar codes for each recipe which can be scanned and automatically added to your Fitbit food log! You can order Rocco DiSpirito’s new book now. Skinless chicken has become sort of...
On February 3rd, we asked you to help feed people in need with FitForFood. The idea was simple enough: burn calories, give calories. More than 106,000 people stepped up to the challenge and crushed it. Thanks to you, we were able to reach our goal of burning 1,000,000,000 active calories in less than 16 days! Fitbit will now make a donation to...
This week, runway titans Hilary Rhoda and Erin Heatherton are facing off in an epic Celebrity Challenge—the first in a series of challenges to come! Both models are competing to see who can take the most steps in five days, and right now #TeamRhoda is in the lead. In between her busy schedule, Hilary sat down to answer some questions about how...
Since February is American Heart Month, we’ve teamed up with the American Heart Association to bring you heart-healthy tips all month long! Our last post in this series featured Activities to Keep Your Heart Healthy. Getting – and staying – healthy takes a combination of good habits, like exercising, eating well, and getting enough...
We’re really excited to be integrated into award-winning chef and best-selling author Rocco DiSpirito’s new book, Cook Your Butt Off! Every recipe in the book includes a barcode you can scan with the Fitbit app to automatically add it to your food log. The book is out today, and you can order it now! Here’s how Rocco describes...
Since Fitbit trackers are a part of so many people’s daily lives, it can be amazing what type of data you can capture. So we were thrilled to hear from Fitbit user Ben*, who was excited to see that his Charge HR did such a great job tracking his heart rate, it even showed the peak when he proposed to his girlfriend! Ben had taken his...
PurePulse Heart Rate is a new technology at Fitbit that we’re really proud of. Included in ChargeHR, Charge 2, Alta HR, Blaze and Surge, it offers continuous, automatic, wrist-based heart rate and simplified heart rate zones. Tracking your heart rate allows you to accurately track your calorie burn, maintain workout intensity, maximize...