If you can wear it, order it, stream it, or 'gram it, we've probably tried it. Much as we hate to admit it, most of the health products we sampled in 2016 were hardly life-changing.
Sure, there was the occasional look of surprise or curious query we got when we were wearing it around the office, but we found most extra gadgets we could largely do without.
These products, on the other hand, significantly shifted our view of some pretty important things — from giving us new insight into what motivates us to be more active to changing how we think about mental health.
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The 7-minute workout app, which made it possible to get our hearts racing without leaving home.
When we first heard about The 7-Minute Workout, an app that promises to grant you the benefits of a sweaty bike ride and a trip to the gym in just a few minutes, we thought it was all hype.
But as it turns out, the app actually, well, works you out.
We tried it for the first time in January, and we're still hooked. It's perfect on the weekends, when one of us can't make it to yoga, or as something fun to do with a friend at home. Here's how it works.
Cost: Free on the App Store.
Fitbit, because it showed one of us that behavior tracking can be great — for some people.
It started out innocently enough. One of us got an old Fitbit fitness tracker from a friend who bought the new model. It was great at first. We were taking the stairs more often at work, walking outside to make phone calls, and even joining in on the occasional "Weekend Warrior" competition, a mini marathon you do with your friends to see who can get the most steps in a weekend.
This type of behavioral change helps a lot of people meet their fitness goals. For some, it's worked for weight loss; for others, it's simply helped them be motivated to move around more.
But we went overboard with all the tallying, and had to take it off after a month-long trial.
"I learned I'm perfectly fine without an external tracker," one of us wrote. "I have a natural internal one that's more than sufficient."
Cost: $120 for the latest Charge model, the Charge 2
Nurx, a service that let us order birth control online and delivered it to our doorstep — for free.
Fact: Getting birth control pills is no easy task.
But a handful of apps is hoping to change that. They're designed to let you order birth control from your smartphone or computer in just a few minutes — no doctor's visit required.
Having been on birth control for a decade, I decided to try out one of the apps, called Nurx, for myself. The site was easy to navigate and thanks to the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), my birth control was free and shipped to my doorstep in days.
Cost: Generics free; Brand-names vary.
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