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September 5, 2020 By GOQii Leave a Comment

Manisha Mahajan From Nashik City Police Takes The Next Step To Good Health!

During this entire COVID-19 pandemic, one cannot deny the role that our frontline heroes – the police force have played by tirelessly working to ensure that lockdown rules were followed and providing assistance wherever required. While our unsung heroes do their best to protect us from the pandemic, who is protecting them? Good effort in the service of others rarely goes unrewarded. Let’s look at the story of one of our heroes, Manisha Mahajan from the Nashik Police Force.

Manisha Mahajan has been working with the Nashik Police Force since 2014. Currently, she has been assigned the task of handling the GOQii dashboard for the Nashik police Force. Her task includes monitoring whether the personnel who have been handed the trackers are syncing on a daily basis, sending out reminders if they are not doing it, flagging off if there is a temperature increase alert and contacting the relevant policeman to stay off duty and observe if he experiences any other COVID-19 symptoms. She also constantly motivates everyone around to record as many steps in a day as possible.

Changes After GOQii

While getting inducted into the Police Force, they were required to undergo a 9 month training period which involved a lot of walking, running and other physical activities. However, once she got a posting, all activities stopped due to working in shifts and frequent changes in schedule.

When the tracker was handed out to them by their Commissioner, Shri Vishwas Nangare Patil, at first she wasn’t too keen on using it. However, after a few days, she too got motivated looking at the others actively engaging with the coach and recording a huge number of steps.

Once on the platform, her GOQii Coach helped her with a proper schedule for workouts, meal timings and sleep. She now wakes up early and spends an hour walking, running, and doing bodyweight exercises. She does not skip breakfast, includes at least one fruit every day and has lemon-ginger-turmeric concoction upon waking up. She has also begun including more protein sources in her meals like fish, chicken and eggs. Her rice consumption has been significantly reduced as well.

She tries to walk as much as possible even during her shift and clocks in almost 35k steps on an average, daily. She also performs yoga and meditation a few times during the week. She says that it keeps her fresh and energetic throughout the day and her sleep quality has also improved as compared to before. Since the past 2 months, she has reduced 4kg in weight.

She says the data that she sees on the dashboard and the tracker are great motivators. It is not just her, but her colleagues as well who constantly try to keep increasing their daily step count.

What Does Manisha Mahajan Think About GOQii?

Manisha Mahajan says that GOQii has brought about a lot of positivity in her life. She feels good about herself. In fact, looking at her enthusiasm, even her mother has started taking interest in walking. She now wishes to gift her mother a tracker very soon!

We salute the efforts of Manisha Mahajan from the Nashik City Police Force for her dedication to serve the country as well as remain active!

Stay tuned for more insights on the life and journey towards an active lifestyle of our Police Force in the coming weeks! For more successful user stories, check out Healthy Reads within the GOQii App.

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September 4, 2020 By GOQii Leave a Comment

There’s A Reason Why Akshay Kumar Has Been Using This Smart Watch

As we’re slowly unlocking, there is still that sense of panic and dread. COVID-19 might be far from over but should that stop you from being active? Should it get in the way of your business? At times like these, it is important to be cautious and even more important to be smart about it. The best part is that now, you can do both with the GOQii Smart Vital – the latest offering by the Smart-Tech Preventive Healthcare Platform, GOQii.

What Is The GOQii Smart Vital?

The GOQii Smart Vital is a smartwatch designed to measure your vitals. It has an integrated pulse oximeter which helps you monitor your blood oxygen and provide real time updates of variation in blood oxygen levels. Apart from monitoring your blood oxygen levels, the other features of the device include:

Sensors to detect Body temperature
Track heart rate in real-time
Check blood pressure
18 Exercise modes with real-time data display
Counts steps, calories, sleep, alarm and inactivity alerts, etc.
Personalized watch faces
Music and phone finder to go truly hands-free
Smart notifications for messages, calls, WhatsApp and other apps on your phone
Water Resistance
3” full screen touch display
External Charger with up to 7 days battery life

How Does The GOQii Smart Vital Help During A Pandemic?

According to medical experts, COVID-19 patients are found to have low oxygen levels. Apart from this, high body temperature is also a symptom. Hence, such a device is crucial in diagnosing and monitoring the symptoms of COVID-19. It helps in tracking potential crisis. With the device, an individual can immediately track changes in their vitals and take necessary precautions. More so, the unique features of detecting sleep, calories, heart rate and blood pressure can also indicate the potential of other health risks.

The GOQii Smart Vital can be connected to a centralized dashboard that enables remote monitoring of a large user base. This monitoring is continuous and would require minimal user intervention. This can enable companies to track the health of their employees and mitigate any health risks or limit the infection from spreading further.

Vishal Gondal, the Founder and CEO of GOQii says, “We are on the path of innovation with GOQii Smart Vital that will help in detection, isolation and monitoring of coronavirus cases. The key is to understand your symptoms and correlate them to changes in body vitals. The smart watch will provide a reference to understand your health and fitness that is crucial while we battle the pandemic. The moment you detect temperature changes coupled with low oxygen blood levels, you know you have to contact your healthcare provider and get tested.”

Vouched For & Tested By The Best!

At the launch of the smart watch, GOQii’s brand ambassador Akshay Kumar said, “The GOQii Vital 3.0 was handed over to Mumbai, Jalandhar and Nashik police, and we have seen the impact it has had on our police force. It helped them in quick detection and isolation thus ensuring that the virus does not spread. The new smart watch with added advantage will also help in reducing burden on testing as people with normal fever need not rush to hospital unless other vitals are unstable. Using such devices will eventually become a necessity as we are slowly gearing to resume normal life”.

About 150 cast and crew members of the movie “Bell Bottom” have become the first group in the world who are going to use the GOQii Smart Vital during the entire shoot of the film in UK & India.

Where Can You Buy It?

The device is currently available on GOQii’s website – store.goqii.com/smartvital. You can also get it from the GOQii Health Store by downloading the app – www.goqii.com/app

The device is also available on Amazon India.

The device comes with a 1 year warranty and a 3 month Personal Care Plan Subscription in which you get a personal coach and an expert, who can enable you to meet your health goals, as well as access to various other features within the app.

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August 29, 2020 By GOQii 7 Comments

6 Health Benefits of Playing Sports

Do you remember the days when you were active and indulged in sports. Be it a game of football or cricket in your alley or shooting 3 pointers at your college’s basketball court, running all over the place with your friends created cherished memories. If this was an integral part of your childhood, you are familiar with the health benefits of playing sports!

Sports ensures that you are active both mentally and physically. As you grow older, sometimes due to responsibilities, work, family or other reasons, we tend to give up on our favorite hobby. We have seen so many cases where a person who used to play a sport, gave up and gained weight.

In most cases, once they began playing their favorite sport once again, their body accelerated much faster than the others and they lost all the stubborn fat they couldn’t get rid of otherwise. This happens primarily because your cells have the memory of being active. Remember that it is never too late to start again!

Sports as an extracurricular activity in school and college not only gave you a break from your studies but also helped you get healthier. How you ask? Let’s find out!

6 Health Benefits of Playing Sports

It teaches you to be patient, have a fighting spirit, and never settle for less in life.
Studies show that, children who have been into sports or are blessed with super active genes are quick learners, very social, perform better at any given task, are more attentive in class and their grasping powers are much better than the others.
Sports at an early age helps in life-long fitness habits.
Earlier it was believed that any type of physical exertion can make a person feel more tired and less attentive. This belief was nothing more than a myth. Active people are more intellectual and perform better as compared to sedentary people.
Looking at the growing occurrence of Teenage Obesity, sports can be a great and fun way to help them get back into shape.
Any sport or activity will give you a dash of endorphins, reducing any kind of stress and keeping you happy!

So don’t sit back and think you’re too old for this or too old to get back to the sport you love! Wake up your inner child, grab your equipment, play a sport and encourage those around you to as well!

If you don’t have a favorite sport or activity, you can always start running. Join the Fit India Freedom Run by downloading the GOQii App and run for a healthy India! For tips on sports and running, check out Healthy Reads or tune in to live sessions by experts on GOQii Play.

Happy National Sports Day!

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August 22, 2020 By GOQii Leave a Comment

How Did Police Officer Sharad Hembade Go From Healthy to Healthier?

Being a part of the Police Force means that you need to be healthy and active at all times. Poor health or lack of activity can come in the way of duty otherwise. But, as an officer, if you’ve been active throughout your life, is there a way you can improve further? Let’s find out from the journey of Officer Sharad Hembade from the Nashik City Police.

Being an Active Force of the Police Force!

Sharad Hembade has served 18 years as an officer and has been stationed at Nashik for the past 12 years. He is happily married and has 2 kids. When he isn’t involved in his police duties, he treks – sometimes with a group and sometimes alone around Maharashtra. He has also participated in a number of marathons pan India as and when time permitted.

Apart from these activities, he also participates in cycling events. One such event was organized by the Nashik Cyclists Foundation which spanned from Nashik to Pandharpur and back – a distance of 365 to 375km which he undertook in the year 2018. They completed 185 km on the first day and 80 km on the second. The entire distance was covered in 2 days and 2 hours. Though it was tiring, he said the event was worth remembering.

From Healthy to Healthier!

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressure on the police force has increased exponentially. To ensure the safety of our frontline heroes, a GOQii Tracker was handed over to the entire Nashik City Police Force by their commissioner, Shri. Vishwas Nangare Patil two months back. All the mechanisms of the tracker including temperature monitoring and how to use the app was explained to them.

Though Officer Sharad Hembade was already quite active, GOQii helped bring in a newfound enthusiasm in him by motivating him to complete his daily step count target and check all the habits set by his GOQii Coach. Compared to before, he says that his entire routine is now structured when compared to his lifestyle before.

The structure and changes to his routine introduced by his GOQii Coach were:

Starting his day with a walk-run combo from 6 AM to around 8:30 AM. He also includes some bodyweight exercises and a few minutes of yoga and meditation towards the end.
On the diet front, he was asked to introduce more protein sources to his meals
Reducing water intake as he used to consume 6-7 liters a day which his coach explained were harmly as he would be losing a lot of essential minerals in the process.
Including more plant-based protein sources such as rajma, chana and various kinds of lentils for lunch and dinner.
Walking between shift hours instead of being seated.

Thanks to these minor changes, he was able to lose 4kg in 2 months. He has also begun purchasing healthy products from the GOQii Health Store such as protein snacks and bars.

What Does Officer Sharad Hembade Think About His Changes?

He says his job involves a lot of stress for obvious reasons and hence, it is extremely important to have a positive mindset and handle it on a daily basis. Physical activity helps in developing the body as well as the mind – willpower improves and it also helps ease the stress. This has been his belief throughout his life. He says that right now, GOQii is like their caretaker and health inspector – constantly monitoring and reminding them to take care of their health!

We salute the efforts of Officer Sharad Hembade and his dedication to serve the country as well as remain fit and active!

Gear up as we’re going to share more insights on the life and journey towards an active lifestyle of our Police Force in the coming weeks! For more successful user stories, check out Healthy Reads within the GOQii App.

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