Your physical Fitbit wearable and its accompanying app have a wealth of fitness features that you can utilize to improve your sleep, practice healthy eating habits, make time for meditation, and much more. Here’s how to find and use them.

The Health Metrics section of the Fitbit app provides some personal stats like your breathing rate, skin temperature, and resting heart rate. The real beauty of this section lies in the Trends tab, though.

If you’ve been wearing your Fitbit for a while, you’ll have access to 7-day, 30-day, and 90-day metrics and graphs of your data. Tapping on Learn More will take you in for a closer look at your weekly graphs, along with an explanation of how they determine your stats and why they matter.

Monitoring your fitness data over time is a great way to make sure you stay on track and achieve your goals. What if you want to find new ways to stay happy and healthy, though?

Discover

The Discover tab is home to all kinds of workouts, challenges, and programs to keep your mind and body in shape.

Note: While the free version of the Fitbit app provides you with a few options in each category, Fitbit Premium is the best way to experience everything your Fitbit has to offer.

Challenges & Adventures

Challenges & Adventures help you get moving by yourself or with a group of friends. Pick a challenge that looks interesting to you, choose its duration and start time, invite any friends if you like, and you’re off to the races. If you don’t want to invite any friends at the Invite Friends page, tap Select, then tap Continue Anyway to confirm.

If none of the available challenges look enticing to you, create your own Custom Challenge and set it just the way you want it—or wait for new challenges to pop up as they’re updated.

Adventures are a neat way to link fitness and sightseeing. If you’re planning a trip to Yosemite, Vernal Falls, or Pohono Trail, get your steps in while you soak up the epic scenery around you. No competition here, just a healthy way to explore famous landmarks with Fitbit’s help.

Trekking through the mountains or trying to stay dry by the waterfalls are also perfect opportunities to take a moment for your mental health.

Mindfulness

The Mindfulness section is dedicated to helping you improve your mental well-being through meditation, relaxation, and self-love. Whether you want to fall blissfully asleep with ease or become more aware of your thought patterns, Fitbit has a video to help you out.

Most videos for stress meditation or improving body positivity run 15 minutes or under, while most stories and relaxing sounds for sleep are 30 minutes or longer to help you drift off.

When you’re ready to get moving again, consider trying out one of Fitbit’s Guided Programs.

Guided Programs

Guided Programs challenge you to cut back on sugar, step up your running game, and become comfortable getting uncomfortable with bodyweight exercises. Every program runs at least one week, and some run up to three.

Tapping on a program will give you insights into its structure and pacing. If you decide to start one, you’ll be prompted to set up some activity reminders to make sure you stay on track. If you’d prefer not to, hit No Thanks and you’re good to go.

Review what each week has in store, then tap START MY PLAN NOW to follow the guided video tutorials. If you’d like to quit a program at any time, simply tap the more icon (three dots) in the top right corner and select Quit Program.

Groups

Looking to connect with others who are trying to achieve similar fitness goals? The Groups page of the Community tab in your Fitbit app is filled with online communities of people who discuss fitness topics like healthy snack tips, hiking and running, sleeping habits, and more.

If you’re looking for tips or inspiration from people who are on a journey like yours, this is the place to go. Feel free to browse a group without joining it or writing any posts—if you’re interested, join up to stay in the loop with the latest and greatest info.

Breathing Exercises

Move over from the app to your Fitbit wearable now. Swipe down until you get to a screen that displays a heart captioned Relax. Tap on the heart. These are breathing exercises that you can do for two to five minutes; select your desired duration. Be still and take slow, deep breaths while your Fitbit calibrates to your breathing.

Then, inhale as the ring expands, and exhale as it comes back to the center. Keep going for the duration you set and let your stress melt away.

If you feel dizzy or lightheaded at any time, don’t worry about the session. Take a break, sit down, and breathe normally. You can always come back to a new session later.

Find With Tile

Have you ever used Find my iPhone to locate your lost Apple device? Fitbit’s Find With Tile option is the same idea.

Download Tile on your phone, open it, and tap Get Started. Then, scroll down to Fitbit, tap on it, and set up your Tile account if you don’t have one already. Follow the on-screen instructions to sync Tile with your Fitbit. Enjoy the peace of mind that comes with always knowing where your Fitbit is, even when it’s not on your wrist.

Download: Tile for Android | iOS (Free, premium version available)

Which Fitbit Is Fit For You?

We hope you learned how to get the most out of your Fitbit with these features. If you’re looking to upgrade or transition from a different fitness wearable, it’s important to consider the different Fitbit models available to you.

We showcased the Inspire 2 in this article, but if you’re looking for a more robust display and watch face, you may want to go with the Sense or Versa 3. Each has its own unique features and options tailored to building a healthier you.