Accessorize Your Fit Life

Sometimes it’s the little things that inspire you to stay fit. These active extras have a motivating touch.

Heart Rate Monitor
More like a digital fitness buddy, heart rate monitors give you the facts and figures that remind you how hard you’ve worked. This one—the Garmin Forerunner 60 Fitness Watch takes the cake. Perfect for techie fitness buff, you can monitor your heart rate, pace, time, distance, calories burned, and use the USB antenna stick to wirelessly transfer the data to your computer. It gets better: A virtual partner feature lets you race against a fictitious droid who wants to kick your butt.

Hydration Pack
Even though most people use them for outdoor hikes and bikes, there’s no rule against wearing your hydration pack to your kids’ soccer game. Will people stare? Only because they’re not hip to the trend—yet. This Camelbak model holds nearly all the water you need in a day!

Health Monitor
Knowing your numbers—such as your body fat and BMI—puts you in a position to take action. The Omron Fat Loss Monitor measures your body mass index (BMI—an indicator MDs use to measure your overall health) and your body fat by via a low-grade electrical current that determines the amount of your fatty tissue. It also tells you if your stats are in a healthy range. Store your data and that of up to nine friends.

Fitness GPS
You’ve got a great natural sense of direction, but every once in a while you get turned around on a new hiking course. No foul. Now you can know where you’re going, even when you sort of don’t. The Garmin E Trex 30 has an electronic compass, altimeter, and a wireless feature that lets you share routes, waypoints, and geocaching data with other units and easily download important info (like the next rendezvous point) to your device. And the display is in full-color.