By Art Sta. Ana Let’s face it, getting and staying fit nowadays has become a mental exercise as much as it is physical. There’s so many numbers involved: the number of steps you need to take, the number of calories you need to burn, your ideal resting and exercise heart rate, the number of gallons of water you need to drink, your ideal hair length, the ideal number of showers you need to take, the cellphone number of that beautiful girl you’re trying to impress at the gym. In this day and age of fitness analytics, you have to keep track of all of these, when all you really want to do is start running or lifting weights while you listen to music. Isn’t exercising tiring enough by itself? This is why the new Fitbit Ionic is the perfect workout partner. It’s like getting a personal assistant, motivational speaker, and gym buddy who will sing the songs that you like while you concentrate on getting more out of your workout. This fitness smart watch that now comes with a high resolution screen is unlike any smart watch that’s available right now, and is a must have for any fitness enthusiast, and here are the nine reasons why: 1) It will last as long as you do. Probably one of its best features is that it now comes with a battery life of up to five days. Less worrying about whether you need to charge your Fitbit Ionic already, more sweating. 2) It’s waterproof. Speaking of sweating and moisture, it is water resistant up to 50 meters, and has been tested to work while you swim in pools or at the beach. You can now keep track of your swim activity! 3) Music that won’t drain your phone. It comes with 2.5 GB of storage that you can use to play music. Leave your phone inside your locker, and keep your phone battery for when you have to explain to your girlfriend that you weren’t able to answer her calls because you left your phone inside your locker. 4) Connects perfectly with your Bluetooth headset. You can hook it up to the new Fitbit Flyer, Fitbit’s own wireless headphone that’s specifically designed to work perfectly with your Fitbit Ionic, or any other bluetooth headset so that you can start playing your Adele or Coldplay songs on the treadmill. 5) Your own personal trainer. The Fitbit Ionic gives you access to the on-device step-by-step Fitbit Coach which will give you work out instructions even if you are just at the comfort of your living room or hotel room and are without access to the gym. No excuses, no free days! 6) It knows when you are running. The run detect feature knows when you have started running or biking or other exercise activity and when you have stopped, even if you forgot to set it because of how pumped up you are on energy drinks and caffeine and how much you just wanted to start working out right away. The Fitbit Ionic is taking notes of everything for you. 7) Improved functionalities of the Fitbit features that we’ve come to love. For those of us who’ve experience the life changing capabilities of a Fitbit, they were still able to somehow make them better. It now tracks heart rate with greater accuracy through the enhanced PurePulse technology, and it now uses an industry leading GPS that can record elevation climbed, split times, map your walk, all without the use of your phone. 8) New screen, new apps. Who knew fitness could be so much fun? With a glass touchscreen that lets you see and use apps even in bright sunlight, using weather, sports, and other apps available for the Fitbit Ionic is now just super fun. 9) Interchangeable bands. It takes literally 10 seconds to change the default rubber band of the Fitbit Ionic to the leather ones that you need to use to match it with your formal evening wear, all so you get to still track your activities as you try to convince your date that you have a life outside of the gym. The fitness game has now been changed entirely. You can now concentrate on shedding those pounds and adding some more distance to your run, or swim and still keep track of your calorie count, all thanks to your new workout best friend, the Fitbit Ionic.