Anybody use a Fitbit to monitor cardio activity?

I agree with everything you just said with one exception. Anyone with a recent heart attack attempting to exercise to improve their health (a very wise response to the situation, IMO), needs to monitor their heart activity, at least until they have built up a solid history of clean cardiac activity during exercise. Get a stress test after a year of clean health. Then think about dispensing with the cardiac monitoring. Otherwise, to someone without the medical history of OP, who has not displayed any warning symptoms (chest pain on exertion, etc.), I agree with you. Have at it and get busy.

Just walking down any street in the US, I'd say about 98% of the population need to stop following the bogus, destructive nutritional guidelines the government has given us, and cut out the sugar and starch and get off their asses. Americans now live longer than ever, but those years they've gained will all be spent in pain and horrible health, making the medical-industrial complex richer...

The wife and I got charge 3's for ourselves a couple of months ago. We have contests to see who walked farther and who slept better etc.
I like it.
We got a discount on them through our HMO about 20% off.

Red wine and primo dark chocolate, in moderation, also

Oooh, I can see if maybe I can get a discount through my insurance, too.

Thank you for mentioning that!....

It has GPS and connects wirelessly when internet is available. Early fitbits did not but major upgrades. The military recently banned them because soldiers were wearing them while running on the Afghanistan bases and it mapped the entire base and automatically shares your map on the web.

Sorry. Just saw this. I use garmin's rugged outdoors. But I overspent. They are 300.00. They have so many in the 100- 150 range that do the exact same thing. Maybe even better monitors.

Yeah, I looked at the Garmin's when I went to Best Buy. They are just too much out of my price range.

I've had a lousy work week, so I'm going to need to wait a coupla weeks to get one....well, and I'm also barely yet exercising, so that's not that big of a deal.

I'm going to get one, though....

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Less then $30

That one is water proof, too. Nice find, KipKat. I'm going to see if they have it at Best Buy when I go to Cruces next week.


Thank you!.....

I own the Charge 2. I use it daily. Syncs thru an app you can download on your phone. Get one. You’ll like it.

I do qualify for a 20% discount for a Fitbit through my insurance.

I'm actually looking at the Inspire HR device. It has more cardio options. It's $99. Minus $20 for the discount, that's not too much for me.

The only other difference is that the Charge 3 stays charged for seven days. The Inspire HR is only five days. That doesn't much matter to me.


I'm very happy I can get the discount....


Oop, I gotta get out the door to PT....oh, joy....

In two months or less it’ll be laying in your junk drawer, forgotten.

Consider that when determining what you want to spend.

I mean, if you have a smart phone you're kinda screwed privacy-wise. That was my reasoning for not having one for the longest time, then I was like - welp! they're tracking me anyway with my phone so I don't think I'm that better off.

So I caved and bought one last year. I got one of the cheaper ones (just does the basics - no heart rate), but what I like most is the sleep monitoring. It's pretty accurate and I like that it deducts any "restlessness" throughout the night from your overall sleep amount. I have all kinds of sleep issues so this feature I appreciate the most.

John Hancock life insurance is major investor in Fitbit corp. Your bio and health stats data will be aggregated to develop and modify existing actuarial life tables to say the least. They have a poor reputation for standing behind their products after the warranty expires too. Do a search on the Surge watchband on their forums for more details. Garmin is a much better watch brand value wise and offers more health monitoring features with a matching app for the price of a comparable Fbit. Good luck.

I have a Fitbit Charge 2 and was about to get the Charge 3 but reviews made me second guess that

I am ordering a Xiomi Band 4 for my kids (@$50) and if I like it, I will get one too.

No

Xiami Band 4 does everything the Fitbit does but in color

My friends overseas say it's awesome

I would never touch it!

Oh lovey, why?

You might want the new Apple Watch with EKG built in.

i dont need to monitor my cardio. because im healthier than most fat asses here. i dont want government to track my heart 2. i ride a bicycle instead of a car, i see fat people everywhere. only strong will continue.

I don't do Apple products.

I'm going to get the kardia mobile--

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Between the Fitbit and this, I'll still spend less than what I would on an Apple.

And I just don't like Apple. I was in training for a work at home customer service job, and saw something very disturbing on the calming picture the training managers would put up during breaks.

I could barely see it, but it said, "You are nothing but a twat. You will never be loved."

I quit. Fuck that bullshit.

no i dont like being tracked like a sheep

This does it all. Heart rate, steps, I ran a 5k with it, you can link it to a food program to track calories.
I swim with it and it looks to your phone and can get email alerts as well as weather.
I used it as it tracks my sleep and had helped me lose 5 pounds. Can find it process between $100 and $126
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ANTI-HUMAN PROPAGANDA. You can get similar devices for way cheaper, but OP if you are tempted by the "smart" tech...it's already too late. You DONT need it...even if you had a heart attack...you are probably just fat and unhealthy and simply need to change your LIFESTYLE/DIET, but I am guessing I dont know you. Perhaps you are just mineral deficient...

FITBITS and Wearable tech now is just a taste/precursor to installing tech into our bodies, all pushed for the next step...bio tech neurolinks, elon musk is the fake marketing front guy, everything they push is FAKE. spaceX fake.

But they will have you thinking it's a great useful idea to have gear installed into your arms, legs, body for things just like this. Trendy wendys and weaked minded will flock to it overnight...sheeple gotta sheep. It will NOT be like you think it will be in the movies. It will be LAME. Opening doors, turning on lights, etc...yawn. That's all the average joe will be able to do.

It will be used AGAINST you, restricting you from entering zones of a city, or rather leaving the city. Medical tyranny. Used to monitor you, you'll use it to bank, medical scans, internet access ID, etc. Oh boy...and trust them it's "safer" too...

After the coming digital 911, everything will be chaos and they will FORCE everyone to sign in to do the simplest things in life. Sign into the grid. Tracking everything. The eyes in the sky will monitor EVERYTHING as well. EVERYONE will be jacked into the grid, if you aren't than you'll be an outsider and possibly considered a danger to their modern society.

Darpa/pentagon developed lifelog which basically grew a public arm and became facebook, sucking up even more information on the populations. Again, it gets used against you. It's free for a reason...

EVERYONE that I know wears a fitbit, (mindless twits) but mostly uses it as just a bluetooth incoming text message reader/time watch and never actually uses it for it's main purpose...health and wellness. But knock your self out OP. You "NEED" it.

I love my charge 2. The heart rate monitor is very handy. I do wish there were alerts. I’ve been able to head off some anxiety attacks by noticing that my heart rate was elevated more than it should be. My favorite feature is the sleep tracking though. I don’t feel guilty about taking a nap or sleeping in when I can plainly see that I got no sleep during the night.