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The 10 Best fitness gadgets
You know the drill: new year means new plans to get fit. Make life easy with these clever and funky bits of kit...
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Storm has come up with a hi-tech cotton that repels water as soon as it touches its surface. The water simply beads up and runs straight off, keeping you dry and warm.
£69.99, swimovate.com
This waterproof watch has a detector which senses your strokes and laps when swimming. It can work out your lap count, average strokes per lap, speed, calories and more.
3. Scosche Rhythm pulse monitor
£99.95, apple.com/uk
Say goodbye to bulky chest straps and wires with the world's first lightweight pulse monitor that attaches to your forearm.
£89.99, kswiss.co.uk
Blades that bend with the movement of your foot are the new innovation in gym shoes, boasting far better performance than more traditional solid rubber soles.
£44.99, boots.com
Speed up the body's natural healing process of musculoskeletal and soft tissue disorders caused by sport and fitness injuries by up to 30 per cent with this device.
£79.99, fitbit.com
During the day, this clever little device tracks your steps, distance, calories burned and stairs climbed. Come nightfall, it measures your sleep cycle.
7. Salter body analyser bathroom scales
£36, johnlewis.com
Fear not if you've piled on some pounds – these scales break down what percentage of your body weight is fat, muscle and so on.
Aimed at enabling anyone aged 9+ to build up their muscles, this talking ball enables you to use programmable workouts or personalised regimes.
9. Bowers & Wilkins C5 headphones
£149.95, amazon.co.uk
Noise-isolating headphones can be life-changing, particularly if you're a gym user, where background noise can be a pain.
£99 tesco.com/direct
Designed for runners and long distance walkers, the Garmin Forerunner 10 GPS sports watch helps you track how far and fast you've run or walked.
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