The Fort Strength Training Wearable Tracks Your Sets

Strength training is the new cardio. In the 1990s, everyone sweated in spin classes; in the 2000s, James Park at Fitbit turned us all into step-counting Tamagotchis. Now we’re all weight lifters. In its year-in-review data, Garmin reported that this is the fourth year in a row in which strength training has increased more than 20 percent (the majority of those users were women). Oura also reported that the number of male users who tagged strength training workouts has doubled.

So it’s annoying that logging your leg presses is still so fiddly. Half the time I start a workout on a fitness tracker, I trigger the start of the workout and then have to poke at my watch face to type in all the little reps and weights. Or my fitness tracker doesn’t auto-track any activity at all, because my heart rate never went over 100 beats ...