Anybody use a Fitbit to monitor cardio activity?

^^ This.

Why the heck would people pay for overpriced gimmicky crap to remind them to stay healthy?

Get a freakin scale, exercise daily, eat right, stay hydrated with water, and sleep well. Go to doctor routinely, get your levels and blood checked out to give you reassurance that you are maintaining good health.

I really don’t see how hard that is. Nothings guaranteed, but at least you’re giving yourself the best chance instead of having some Fitbit on your wrist that you’re gonna lose interest with in a month.

Cool story, though, OP.

If your active why would you need one?

Have the ionic.

Its wonderful to track how long I've slept, type of sleep, deep sleep, light sleep etc..

Also tracks resting heart rate. When I eat healthy, heart rate drops, when I eat unhealthy, heart rate rises.

When you have been monitoring for a while, and consistently eat well, you know what your heart rate consistently is. So when you get sick, normally your body starts fighting two days before you feel symptoms. You will notice your heart rate start to spike, which if you catch it early enough, you can spike your vitamin C levels and other supps to help fight back before you go full blown sick.

Also measures fitness level combining weight, heart rate, body fat, etc into a specific number to tell you how fit you are.

Since eating healthy and exercising, I'm watching this number slowly rise as my BMI slowly drops, my body fat drops. Love being able to track all of it.

I also grabbed the aria 2 scale which wirelessly through wifi, sends my weight right to my fitbit app.

I would stay away from the Charge 2. My wife got one and then I ended up using for a while for work as we got $ for meeting the "FIT" - Nothing against retarded people, but I'm pretty sure the charging method was designed by a downs syndrome person...there really is no other explanation.

It's not accurate AT all when compared to other devices. Maybe accurate isn't the best word to use. At the time I had the "free" tracker they gave us and then later I bought an apple watch. The fitbit would give me several thousand steps extra a day compared to the cheap one and the apple one.

Just my 2 cents.

Also, if your looking to get yourself healthy, you need to add in strength exercises too. Not heavy weights, but weights are needed.

All cardio will help you lose weight but will not help you lose body fat if you have a decent % of it.

Adding in strength excerises even if it's doing pushups and situps 20,50,100 times daily, will help you lose that body fat, and make your body and heart much healthier.

Dont listen to the negatives on here. I am a fan of technology. I'm here watching my lean mass increase and watching my body fat % decrease. Sure, I could do it without it. Look in the mirror daily, you dont see much difference. Eventually you see changes, but it's not immediate.

Use it for an alarm, to receive text messages or reminders. Track your heart rate to get into the fat burning heart rate and then do strength training to maximize the burn.

And best of luck to you.

Maybe its your insurance company that has the agenda?

I work for a power gen company in NJ, PSEG that has a program with Virgin Pulse.

Use a tracker to track steps, and activity, and you get rewarded with cash. Pills? Who is forcing anyone to take pills? They simply want people in the company healthy because the more unhealthy people are, the more they are not at work and are submitting claims which the company will have to pay for.

So its beneficial that people are healthy. We also get once per year a free total health checkup.

And while the company does offer the flu shot, the company does not force you to take any vaccinations...

Anyway. Virgin pulse for the win. Challenge your friends to a step challenge. Compare your activity with others and it makes you want to be competitive. Better than being a lazy 250lb unhealthy person, isnt it?

Last Edited by Ziipher on 08/02/2019 10:19 PM

All those tech devices interest me but I can not even wear an analog wrist watch.They ALL go fucky.

that is a damn lie. stop it.

you must be O negative.

For medical quality ekg you need kardiamobile 6L - truly amazing technology.

No.

My cold, cold heart will stop at a time of its choosing.

no thank you. i dont need that shit. i can challenge my friends in anything. they are all fat and lazy. I dont need stupid device that tracks me. that shit is for people in matrix like you

Hahaha. When I was younger, I was in the matrix. Thought hanging with the cool kids was the way to go.

I eventually woke up. When you do actually wake up to the REAL world, it is a scary ass place and you realize you are alone. There are not many people who wake up to the reality of this world.

Eventually you learn to grow and teach yourself that you can master anything in this world. You teach yourself that you, yourself have the answers to your problems in life, no one else. You learn to be your own guru. Truth comes from within.

So yes, I was in the Matrix. Now I'm what Neo would be once he woke. You do realize they still used technology to combat the computer programs right?

Hey if sticks and stones are your thing, good for you. I'd rather learn, grow, and build technology that can help me along the way. The world is what you make it.

have fun in this fucked up world. with fucked up machines, like cars. you probably have one and you dont give a shit about air. you go with da flow. have fun with technology, its going to make you fat and lazy. i use to be a programmer and i have a computer science degree. let the world tell you what to do. and you still live in matrix and you are a slave.

I wrote earlier in this post.....I have a Fitbit Versa and my son has a Fitbit Charge 2.

One thing that I forgot to mention is that I have found that Fitbit's have a hard time connecting to your wifi.

I have to connect my Versa to my wifi in order to copy music onto it and it is hell getting it to connect sometimes.

We also just bought a Fitbit Scale earlier this week and I still havn't been able to connect it to my wifi yet.

Great products and affordable

you are product.

i dunno about this stuff

but I do find for me personally that it helps to just kinda stay motivated on evercise if I can see a time or a number at the end, but I realise it's psychological

just to add, this doesn't mean you need one of these devices, plenty of workout machines will have their own measurements and if you go for a run or whatever you can just time yourself

Garmin Vivosmart 3 bought with credit card points, price was $149 but no cash outlay due to the points (picked up at local Best Buy).

Got size L and wear it on ankle instead of wrist. Use it for steps only, like others find it motivating to see the number at the end of a walk, treadmill session at the gym, and/or just at the end of the day.

Yes, I'm aware of the kardia mobile. I'm going to ask my cardiologist if he thinks I really need one. If so, then I am going to get one.

I have bone on bone in my knee, I can't even (yet) walk on the street for exercise, much less run....harhar, plus I've never been a runner. I'm starting the process for my insurance to pay for getting orthopedic shoes to help absorb the pounding on the street and I'm in PT, so I will be walking for exercise here, hopefully within the next month or two.

I used to walk three miles a day, four or five days a week. I loved it, and I want to get my joints fixed up so I can again.

I HAVE to exercise, or I'm going to die....this ain't no joke. I don't want to die from a heart attack, and I sure as heck don't like the meds they have me on. I must exercise so I can get off the BP meds.

I am very motivated to get healthier....

I just ordered my Fitbit Inspire HR............