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Cool Health & Fitness Accessories for Your iPhone

With everything you rely on your iPhone for, why not include your health and wellness too? Your phone can be more than just a sleek piece of equipment, it can also be a great tool for weight loss and fitness. There are tons of apps, accessories, and gadgets geared towards making you healthier with the help of your iPhone.

Whether you want to monitor your weight, what you eat, or your overall activity, check out these cool iPhone gadgets that can do all of these things (and more!) -

Withings Blood Pressure Monitor ($129) - Simply wrap the blood pressure band around your arm and plug it into your iPhone. This device measures full results incluing the systolic, diastolic blood pressure and BPM. It saves it right to your iOS device and you can even send your results directly to your doctor.

iBike Dash Cycling Computer Deluxe ($329.95) - Attention all cyclists! This fun gadget turns your iPhone into a cycling computer. Water and shock resistant, the iBike Dash monitors your speed and distance and allows you to share your routes with friends.

Withings WiFi Body Scale ($159) -  This WiFi scale measures your lean and fat mass as well as your BMI, and then transmits the information to your phone. The web dashboard tracks changes in weight loss over time.

Jawbone Up (available again soon) - The Up by Jawbone wristband creates a photo journal of what you eat and how it makes you feel, monitors your sleep, and tracks your activity. The wristband links to an app on your iPhone to keep track of your overall progress. Up isn't just about activity, it's about being social too. Users can join challenges to compete against friends.

Adidas miCoach Heart Rate Monitor ($69.95) - This monitor tracks not only your heart rate in real time as you run, but also your speed, distance, and pace. Users can then wirelessly upload their stats to miCoach.com to track results, set goals, and create training plans. It also turns your iPhone into a personal trainer with real time audible coaching.

iBGStar Blood Glucose Monitoring System ($99.95) - This gadget helps for monitoring, as the name suggests, blood sugar levels. It connects directly to the iPhone and comes complete with a lancing system, test strips, and control solution to help keep diabetes in check.

While there aren't many gadgets and accessories available yet for the newly released iPhone 5, we can't wait to see what cool fitness products will be released in the coming months. With over 5 million units of the iPhone 5 sold in the first 3 days it was put on the market, we hope those fitness accessory makers are working overtime.

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