Best Hearing Aids For Active Lifestyles

Hearing Aid Technology Features To Consider for An Active Lifestyle 

If you have an active lifestyle,  there are various hearing aids on the market to suit your favourite activity. From sports like swimming, yoga, hiking, running or simply just long walks outdoors. Hearing aids are being designed to accommodate and support you with less interruptions to your hearing and listening needs. 

Some hearing aid features can be found in more than one type of hearing aid, whilst other features can't currently be built into the hearing aid (e.g invisible in the canal aids (IIC), not currently rechargeable and Bluetooth compatible, but who knows this might change very quickly in future!) might not be present. Knowing these additional features can help you to decide on which hearing aid would work best for you along with your audiologist's recommendations. 

• Bluetooth Connectivity Hearing Aids:

 These can be useful for pairing your phone or smartwatch, enabling you to adjust settings on the go as you run or cycle.

With Bluetooth streaming you listen to audio while you run or meditate without needing to take off your hearing aids to put on a spare pair of headphones. This way your listening is always seamless. Some hearing aids can switch between audio to phone calls or TV streaming and back. If going out for a run, it can make for a much lighter burden over the ears, having your hearing aids cover your phone calls, music, audiobook, or podcast listening requirements.

• Rechargeable Hearing Aids: 

Can be ideal for busy lifestyles reducing the need to carry batteries. Some hearing aid models can come with chargers housing their own power banks or battery packs. So if out camping or sailing, one need not worry about finding the nearest mains plug. Disposable batteries are becoming less utilised with newer releases from manufacturers. Hearing aids especially behind-the-ear models (BTE) and receivers in the canal models (RIC) are increasingly being released as rechargeable models. With most models in 2025 now lasting a minimum of 16hrs and some models lasting up to 51hrs. (Starkey Edge AI). Some hearing aids now have battery power banks within their chargers so you can take them on the go with you and not have to worry about where to charge them. Useful for those longer flights and outdoor camping trips.

• Top Tier Technology Hearing aids: 

Hearing Aids can track heart rates and daily steps. Enabling one to monitor and record one's efforts to improve their fitness. Some hearing aids can track your daily steps and heart rate, with some brands stating that hearing aid step counters are even more accurate than watch counters (as one can be immobile and move their wrists around to imitate walking movement!). So if you want to ensure your run is in the right fat-burning zone, or you have set your target number of steps for the day. Hearing aids can help you monitor how close you are to achieving your goal.

• Waterproof Hearing Aids:

Hearing aids with waterproof features can be advantageous not only if you goes swimming often, but if sailing, or outdoors frequently in different climates. Starkey Edge AI hearing aids are water-proof. If you are often outdoors working, tending to the garden or frequently love to cover those laps waterproof hearing aids could give you further piece of mind. Most leading brands already have a high water-resistant rating of IP68 but waterproof ratings take moisture ingress another step further. Accidental steps into the shower with the hearing aids become no longer a concern.

• Hearing Aids with music programs:

 Music lovers can enjoy a greater range of sounds if hearing aids with music processing features are considered. Standard hearing aids are usually focused on processing speech. Music requires less compression processing and noise reduction as needed for speech in complex environments like concerts. If at a loud festival or gig, hearing protection would be recommended over hearing aids. If wanting to enjoy your music across the spectrum in a richer way, ask your audiologist about hearing aids best for listening to music and a few brands will come out winners. 

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