Nike Fuelband

[Tilted (Premo)]

Anyone have one? Thoughts?

[MMM_donuts]

I do not have the fuelband for this reason:

I have been using Nike+ since the original bracelet. I moved on into the shoe sensor that connects to the ipod, then to the Nike+GPS phone app, to track my running. I felt like it's a good value for the price, as opposed to getting a Garmin or something that's hundreds of dollars for my little amateur exercise. However, I had an awful lot of problems with their software. Most recently, just after New Years, the Nike+ app would just stop recording my run after a mile but it would continue to record the time. So it would show that I ran 1 mile in one hour, or something like that, and it would not allow me to calibrate. After, like, 10 calls to Nike+, I finally said goodbye to their system and am no longer an advocate for putting up with a few quirks for a good deal. Especially since there are better products out there for the same or cheaper.

What are you looking to use the Fuelband for?

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MMM_donuts

What are you looking to use the Fuelband for?

Probably because Lady GaGa has one.

[warneckutz]

Originally Posted by Tilted

Anyone have one? Thoughts?

I was eyeing it up since I have the X-Box Nike Kinect, plus all the apps on my iPhone.

I backed off because I was seeing a lot of reviews saying it was not very accurate at all and the syncing was an issue. (Currently, only iPhones can use the Nike software for the Fuel Band - maybe that's changed?)

I was all about it though, but I may just get the Nike+ for the shoes and use them occasionally (I hate cardio, but meh...)... if anything, just tap your feet while you're driving on cruise control and tracking your progress, you'll be amazed how much faster you finish your mile than your competitors.

[Tilted (Premo)]

Originally Posted by MMM_donuts

I do not have the fuelband for this reason:

I have been using Nike+ since the original bracelet. I moved on into the shoe sensor that connects to the ipod, then to the Nike+GPS phone app, to track my running. I felt like it's a good value for the price, as opposed to getting a Garmin or something that's hundreds of dollars for my little amateur exercise. However, I had an awful lot of problems with their software. Most recently, just after New Years, the Nike+ app would just stop recording my run after a mile but it would continue to record the time. So it would show that I ran 1 mile in one hour, or something like that, and it would not allow me to calibrate. After, like, 10 calls to Nike+, I finally said goodbye to their system and am no longer an advocate for putting up with a few quirks for a good deal. Especially since there are better products out there for the same or cheaper.

What are you looking to use the Fuelband for?

I have one already, I've been using it for about 2 weeks.

For me it serves as motivation - probably more accurately, as a reminder. I tend to be in the moment (at all times), so I can get involved with what I'm doing and lose track of anything else going on in the world and other things that I need to do or should be doing. That can mean sitting in front of a computer and going from reading one thing to reading another trying to understand something - and when I get in that mode, most of the day may have passed before I realize it. It can also mean starting on a treadmill and staying on it for hours just because that's what I happen to be doing and I forget to stop, but in order for that to happen I need an impetus. Anyway, what I'm doing at a given moment (and sometimes for long stretches) is rather happenstance. So I needed something there - on my body - to serve as a reminder on days when I've been rather sedentary: Hey, dummy, you need to start doing something physical now

It's worked well for me to that end. I feel like I owe it something, I owe it a walk or some shadow boxing. For now it's having a big psychological effect. I just hope that continues. I set the Fuel goal up 25 points each day, and thus far I've not fallen short - though a couple of times I have found myself in the last couple hours of the day with 1500 or so points left to get.

As for its operation, I haven't had the problem you refer to. But twice I've noticed that it jumped up all of a sudden - like from 1200 to 4200 points. The part of the phone app that keeps track of the daily, weekly and monthly totals still shows the right number (i.e. when the day is over, it doesn't give me credit for those phantom points). But throughout the day, when I look at the band itself, I have to mentally deduct those phantom points from the total to get a sense of where I am.

[Tilted (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Larry Gude

Probably because Lady GaGa has one.

She does? Coolness! I don't keep track of such things, I just dance to the music (though not to her music as much lately).

You must be a bigger fan of her than I am.

[Tilted (Premo)]

Originally Posted by warneckutz

I was eyeing it up since I have the X-Box Nike Kinect, plus all the apps on my iPhone.

I backed off because I was seeing a lot of reviews saying it was not very accurate at all and the syncing was an issue. (Currently, only iPhones can use the Nike software for the Fuel Band - maybe that's changed?)

I was all about it though, but I may just get the Nike+ for the shoes and use them occasionally (I hate cardio, but meh...)... if anything, just tap your feet while you're driving on cruise control and tracking your progress, you'll be amazed how much faster you finish your mile than your competitors.

I haven't had any major problems with it yet, but I have experienced a couple of small glitches.

As for the accuracy, I don't think it fairly tracks the intensity of activity. For instance, it isn't going to fairly account for using weights as opposed to just doing light cardio. And it doesn't seem that running for a certain amount of time gives you as much additional credit over walking for that amount time as it should. I read where someone suggested that it doesn't track your total amount of activity as much as it tracks how much time you spend not being inactive. That seems about right.

About the Android app, Nike recently indicated that they weren't working on one (though, previously, I thought they'd suggested that they were going to release one sometime). So it seems for now that iOS or a computer are the only options for keeping track of the data (beyond the simple numbers on the band that get reset each day).

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Tilted

She does? Coolness! I don't keep track of such things, I just dance to the music (though not to her music as much lately).

You must be a bigger fan of her than I am.

One must know ones enemies in order to better defeat them.

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Tilted

She does? Coolness! I don't keep track of such things, I just dance to the music :

Dewd. Just stop. It's bad enough you listen to...to...THAT.