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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2013-03-04 11:55 pm
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[personal profile] darkemeralds 2013-03-06 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'm ridiculously out of touch these days and too far behind on my DW/LJ reading ever to catch up, so I hope you don't mind my asking: are you satisfied with your Fitbit? Do you feel like it helps you towards your fitness goals? I've been considering one.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2013-03-06 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
It's working out very well for me, and I think it would be a better fit for you than it is for me.

My goals are to track my step count and thereby increase my physical endurance at a sustainable rate, and to track my sleep. It's been doing that handily as long as I remember to wear it; I've bumped up my daily steps and I've been mostly meeting that goal, and my sleep is at least logged semi-automatically.

My secondary goals are to avoid re-activating my high school disordered eating/exercise behavior, which it has not been so helpful with -- it likes to show me its estimated calorie burn in places that I can't turn it off. That does not sound like it would be an issue for you.

The one unrelated problem that I had was when I forgot and left it on the charger overnight -- and then directly sat down to log my sleep manually. I had to collect some steps and then sync in order to be able to log sleep, because it had no data and was still thinking of it as the future.
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[personal profile] darkemeralds 2013-03-06 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I can see that there would be a learning curve!

I have some concerns about its ability to track my primary form of exercise, i.e., cycling. But I've made two recent changes that I think it would be valuable for quantifying: I've changed to a standing workstation at the office, and I'm substituting walking for biking one commute day per week. Also, the sleep tracking interests me. I'll give it another look.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2013-03-06 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
It was less a learning curve problem and more a really unhelpful error message problem. (As I get deeper into the user experience world, I have exponentially less patience for stupid design decisions.)

It really does not track standing vs. sitting at all well, unless you're actively bouncing around while standing. When I first got it, I had a nice long standing hallway chat during which I was shifting my position rather a lot, and not what I considered smoothly from my fencing training, but apparently too smoothly for the widget to pick up. However, I do have a little under-desk pedal machine, and it picks up that nicely. I don't know of any places that loan them out for test drives, but that would be lovely if there were such a thing.
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[personal profile] darkemeralds 2013-03-06 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
My research is pointing me to the Misfit Shine (if it would just become publicly available) or the BodyMedia FIT because they seem to track biking. But the price says "proceed with caution".

I suspect that the only way to get a handle on the difference that standing all day makes in my calorie burning is over a long period of weight and calorie tracking.
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