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Post by not2peased on Jul 6, 2016 17:02:56 GMT
I went for a walk last night with my fitbit charge and purposely kept my arm still and counted my steps-it counted them fairly accurately. it also has a gps that I dont use that can track distance when I run, pace, etc in addition to the HRM
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 17:18:55 GMT
I am another who found the step count to be WILDLY inflated on the FitBit Flex. I used another pedometer to determine that. They were 8-10 steps apart after my 3 miles walk. But they were 2-3 THOUSAND steps off throughout the rest of the day. I was so disappointed. I had been using the FitBit as a real barometer for trying to lose weight and thought I was meeting my fitness goals. Check out this pedometer and the reviews. The women in my family use this one and it's fantastic. Omron Pedometer
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Post by peaname on Jul 6, 2016 17:19:54 GMT
Wrist heart rate monitors are more accurate for tracking resting heart rate they are not accurate for heart rate training workouts. For that you want a chest strap.
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Post by caangel on Jul 6, 2016 17:21:29 GMT
Regarding manually inputting physical activity if you have to do this why wear an activity tracker? You can do this in MFP for free. The activity tracker records steps taken and flights of stairs. (Mine can also record sleep, but I don't use that feature. I can manually log other physical activities I do, such as swimming or yoga. For running, I use the Garmin (GPS watch) - it will track my route, pace, cadence, etc. Someday, I'll have an "all in one" device, but I'm not there yet I totally get it for people that run/walk but if the majority of your exercise is not that, like the op's daughter, IMO you might as well just use MFP and use map my run for the few times that you walk/run of you don't have a HR monitor.
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Post by SockMonkey on Jul 6, 2016 17:25:55 GMT
It depends on if you want an activity tracker or a fitness tracker for working out. Fitness trackers that use a chest strap to monitor heart rate during workouts are the most accurate. Because she's already quite active, I'm not sure that a FitBit would really tell her much.
I have a Polar M400 that I use for workouts.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 17:33:18 GMT
I have the Fitbit Charge HR and I am the *only* person who doesn't love it. I just don't like it at all. It feels not nice on my wrist. It gets all wet. It's either too tight or too loose. I am just frustrated with it. Remember, I am the only one who doesn't like it. I own that. You are not the only one. I don't like the Charge HR either. The HR monitor does not work correctly - says my resting heart rate is 148. However, my Surge rocks. The FitBit Charge and Charge HR do not have built-int GPS. Only the Surge has built-in GPS. The Blaze has "connected" GPS meaning you have to have your phone with you in order for GPS to track your mileage/pace/route/etc.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Jul 6, 2016 17:59:31 GMT
Right. This is why wrist trackers can be "fooled" by things like pushing a grocery cart -- your legs are in motion, but your arms and wrists are still. I don't own a Fitbit, but my understanding is that with some of their models, you can also input separate physical activity (apart from "steps" you accumulate during the day), so there would certainly be a category for something like dancing/ballet, and she could add in that activity time and it would estimate the calories burned and so forth.
You might want to have her check Garmins. They are the tracker/watch of choice for people who run, and a lot of their devices have features that runners want. But, they also make ones that are geared toward cyclists, and their technology is top-notch (Tour de France, anyone?). Cycling presents the same issue of mostly still arms and wrists while the lower half of the body is working like crazy, so somehow their cycling trackers/monitors deal with that. I will say that I think $100 is going to be a pretty low price point for a tracker with a heart monitor. Most I've seen are over $100.
They also count steps if you are driving an RV, my dad was so excited at how many steps he got in one day that I didn't have the heart to tell him it was the RV vibrations I also got a ton of steps on a 4 hour drive Wow. I have not heard of car or truck vibrations registering as steps, but I don't really have experience with a lot of activity trackers. I wear mine (Garmin) every day, and I have not ever had it count any activities such as driving as steps.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jul 6, 2016 18:27:02 GMT
They also count steps if you are driving an RV, my dad was so excited at how many steps he got in one day that I didn't have the heart to tell him it was the RV vibrations I also got a ton of steps on a 4 hour drive Wow. I have not heard of car or truck vibrations registering as steps, but I don't really have experience with a lot of activity trackers. I wear mine (Garmin) every day, and I have not ever had it count any activities such as driving as steps. Our RVs must just have a pretty strong vibration My SUV does not cause any steps to count.
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Post by scorpeao on Jul 6, 2016 18:47:40 GMT
With a little more reading, I've learned that the Fitbits work by determining your arm movement in pretty much a single plane, the plane you use walking or running. It would not be helpful for a ballet class where you can be working your tush off and never moving your arms in that parallel plane! I don't know that this is necessarily true. I do the elliptical at the gym...you know the one where you're swinging your arms like mad? I get ZERO steps while I'm on that thing. I have a garmin chest strap heart monitor as well as my fitbit. I prefer my fitbit. Some will argue that the heart rate monitor isn't as accurate as the chest strap, but I find that when the fitbit is worn appropriately (about 3 fingers width from wrist to fitbit placement) there is very little difference between the two monitors. As for fitbit customer service...my experience has been awesome! I am a loyal fitbit customer BECAUSE of their customer service.
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Post by Patter on Jul 6, 2016 19:19:37 GMT
Wow. I have not heard of car or truck vibrations registering as steps, but I don't really have experience with a lot of activity trackers. I wear mine (Garmin) every day, and I have not ever had it count any activities such as driving as steps. Our RVs must just have a pretty strong vibration My SUV does not cause any steps to count. I have heard this before and checked it on both my FitBit One and my FitBit Alta. Neither one counts steps when I am driving.
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Post by not2peased on Jul 6, 2016 19:29:18 GMT
I have the Fitbit Charge HR and I am the *only* person who doesn't love it. I just don't like it at all. It feels not nice on my wrist. It gets all wet. It's either too tight or too loose. I am just frustrated with it. Remember, I am the only one who doesn't like it. I own that. You are not the only one. I don't like the Charge HR either. The HR monitor does not work correctly - says my resting heart rate is 148. However, my Surge rocks. The FitBit Charge and Charge HR do not have built-int GPS. Only the Surge has built-in GPS. The Blaze has "connected" GPS meaning you have to have your phone with you in order for GPS to track your mileage/pace/route/etc. it must be synching with my phone-maybe because I integrated mapmyrun into the fitbit? because I am looking at the fitbit charge log activity screen, and it says gps in the corner, shows where I am on a map (at my house), and allows me to set up cues for distance, time, etc. my phone is also flashing: "fitbit is using your location" if that isn't GPS, I don't know what it is, lol
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jul 6, 2016 19:38:57 GMT
Our RVs must just have a pretty strong vibration My SUV does not cause any steps to count. I have heard this before and checked it on both my FitBit One and my FitBit Alta. Neither one counts steps when I am driving. My guess would be it's a combination of the individual Fitbit sensitivity and the amount of vibration in the individual RV steering wheel. Each could and would be different. I can guarantee that neither my step dad nor I took 5000+ steps in the time it said we did while we were driving
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 20:43:37 GMT
not2peased - l learned something new today! It looks like there is some level of GPS integration with the Charge/Charge HR. It's called MobileRun and it is part of the FitBit app. FitBit's MobileRun
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Post by not2peased on Jul 6, 2016 20:57:52 GMT
not2peased - l learned something new today! It looks like there is some level of GPS integration with the Charge/Charge HR. It's called MobileRun and it is part of the FitBit app. FitBit's MobileRun you think they would be promoting it, right? that is kind of a big feature, IMHO-yet I saw nothing on the fitbit charge page about it!
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