Fitness trackers
shw112
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Got myself a cheap wearable fitbess tracker recently (about £20) because I really didn’t fancy spending £100+ on a fitbit, and the disparities between that and the pedometer on my phone are insane! for example this morning I went for a run (about 30 mins)- my phone says I went 3 miles, the tracker says I went 1.5!! I would expect a bit of a difference but that is literally half as far! The calorie count is just over half too. Which should I trust??? Does it sound like I should return the tracker?
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I have bought the cheep ones, and it never worked out for me. I always returned the it, they didn’t work well or they do last. I have now had my Apple Watch for 2 years, so worth it.0
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I wear a Fitbit blaze that’s at least 2 years old and I love it. Yeah it counts my steps but I also know my average resting heart rate has reduced from 85 to 72 in the last 30 days. I can see messages, emails, notifications and calls synced from my phone.
I’ve set daily goals for various things and they definitely motivate me to achieve and keep the trend going.
I bought it for my daughter but she gave it to me when she got an Apple Watch. They’re on eBay for decent prices.
They’re definitely worth the investment.2 -
Not all activity trackers are good at tracking. I’ve even had some from Jawbone and Misfit that would only pick up 60-80 steps for every 100 steps taken. Over the course of a day that adds up to a lot of missed steps.
Try doing a step test. Walk 100 steps and see if the tracker picked them all up.
Maybe look into a Garmin. On amazon.uk I see:
Garmin Vivosmart 3: 59.95
Garmin Vivofit 3: 49.99
Fitbit Inspire: 69.991 -
I had a Fitbit and wore it at my desk job. Every time I moved my arm from my computer to my phone it registered that as a step. Even expensive gadgets can be wrong.
I now use map my walk app on my phone which uses time and distance and maps out my route I walk instead.0 -
Assuming the phone used GPS got distance and the tracker counted steps and guessed at stride length, the phone would obviously be closer to the truth.0
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I had a Fitbit and wore it at my desk job. Every time I moved my arm from my computer to my phone it registered that as a step. Even expensive gadgets can be wrong.
I now use map my walk app on my phone which uses time and distance and maps out my route I walk instead.
Maybe you had a faulty one. I have one for last 4 years and it is pretty accurate. And it does not register just the movement of arm as a step.0 -
Got myself a cheap wearable fitbess tracker recently (about £20) because I really didn’t fancy spending £100+ on a fitbit, and the disparities between that and the pedometer on my phone are insane! for example this morning I went for a run (about 30 mins)- my phone says I went 3 miles, the tracker says I went 1.5!! I would expect a bit of a difference but that is literally half as far! The calorie count is just over half too. Which should I trust??? Does it sound like I should return the tracker?
I would assume your phone is using GPS to track distance...your tracker surely is not.1 -
I got a MiFit (not the newest version) for pretty reasonable and it has seemed fairly accurate. I only use it to track steps, I'm not sure how accurate the other information is.0
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I had a Fitbit and wore it at my desk job. Every time I moved my arm from my computer to my phone it registered that as a step. Even expensive gadgets can be wrong.
I now use map my walk app on my phone which uses time and distance and maps out my route I walk instead.
Maybe you had a faulty one. I have one for last 4 years and it is pretty accurate. And it does not register just the movement of arm as a step.
I used a Fitbit for a collective 3 years. Overall it seemed pretty accurate. However both models I had counted folding laundry as steps. I think my Apple Watch does it too. That doesn’t actually bother me at all, but I could see it bothering someone else.0 -
Yeah I figured the distance on my phone must be more accurate due to GPS- it’s a little odd that the calorie burn on the tracker is also so much lower though, seeing as it is apparently tracking my heart rate, but who knows 🤷♀️0
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Yeah I figured the distance on my phone must be more accurate due to GPS- it’s a little odd that the calorie burn on the tracker is also so much lower though, seeing as it is apparently tracking my heart rate, but who knows 🤷♀️
Just because it can check your HR doesn’t mean it actually uses it in the calculation. I have a cheap one that only cost me $3 that I bought for curiosity. It can monitor HR, but doesn’t use it for it’s calorie burn calculation.0
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