Fitness trackers - yay or nay?

I like gadgets too! Today I will receive a new pedometer (I like to walk)- hoping that seeing what I am (or am NOT) doing motivates me to do more. I also like the app "Happy Scale" which keeps track of weight trends and has little motivators built in- little things to keep me moving forward-not for everyone but I like these types of things

It helped me on the daily activity calorie burn, the exercise was already estimated better with some personal stats and formulas for calorie burn.

That combined allowed causing a good deficit for training and weight loss - prior attempts was sometimes too fast, and 3-4 weeks was too late to make adjustment without having negative effects already. When training season is short, dinking around for proper deficit is not desired.

That said, I had to manually enter exercise, lifting and cardio, with better figures. Step-based device though, so daily life was good, and that's what I didn't have a handle on the variances for.

I don't like them personally. It's one more thing for me to remember. You have to do a lot of research to figure out which ones are accurate and then which one works best for you. Not my thing, but I know a lot of people who have found them to be a useful reminder of the choices they are making.

I like my Alta (and Charge before it). On its own, like a scale, I don't know how accurate it is - but because I use the same Fitbit every day (and same scale every week) the trend is accurate.
I like the gamification (get more steps than yesterday/last week/my friends!) and I like the ease of calling up historical data.
So: it has been beneficial for my weightloss, because it encourages me to move more...get to the next thousand step increment, walk farther than last week, don't come in dead last in a challenge, etc. Even if the calorie burn is overstated, spending 30 minutes walking is pretty much always better than spending 30 minutes on the couch.

I love my Garmin! It motivates me to get more steps in. I don't use to monitor sleep.

Yes I've had Fitbit one for 3+ years and it keeps me moving. Steps and floors are all I need/use.

I love my Fitbit charge HR. Having that heart rate monitor helps to get a more accurate calorie burn. I like that it syncs to MFP and mapmyrun. I won't go without a Fitbit again.

I just got the new Samsung Gear Fit Pro2. Overall I like it - it's small and looks good.

A few cons: It has been a bit flaky here or there, in particular it takes a bit of fidgeting right after I put it on to begin to track my heart rate, but once it acquires it I've been pleasantly surprised by its accuracy (measured against other HRM's like you find built into gym equipment or the tried-and-true counting your heart beats with a stopwtach). Having it set to continuously monitor heart rate throughout the day also means I need to plug it in for an hour or so each day to recharge, but it's a good tradeoff to see my heart rate activity throughout the day.

On the upside, It has some neat apps like myfitnesspal and mapmyrun integration, so my workouts automatically import to my fitness pal. And if nothing else, it's gotten me to get out and move!

I like my Fitbit. I have a simple flex 2. It helps me to see how my activity varies from day to day

I use MyZone and I LOVE IT. My trainer can keep tabs on me and my workout. I also have been doing interval training and it is fantastic for that. I set goals daily, weekly and monthly. Love working towards them.
Not really sure how accurate the calorie count is on it, but that's not why I use it

I just got a cheaper off brand one a few weeks ago and it does add to my motivation to move more. It seems to be fairly close for accuracy and it was the fraction of what a fitbit or garmin cost. I didn't want to spend the money until I knew if I would pay attention to it, or it would just be a watch lol.