How many people have a fitness tracker or smart watch?

[lucky_bee]

I have one of the FitBit Zips. It's a clip on one for your waist. I got it for free from my company last year when they started some walking challenge. A series of taps will tell you the time, how many steps you've taken, calories burned, distance walked, and various smiley faces. I wore it for the whole challenge, and quite a while after, but it's such a PITA to remember to clip it on to my pants in the morning And also to unclip and re-clip to your new clothes when you change during the day! I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten to clip it onto my workout clothes thankfully I can manually enter steps and activities thru the fitbit app...but most of the time I forget to do that too I think I've also sent this poor thing thru the washer still clipped to my jeans too many times to count. Which means I could probably stand to get a new one. I was looking at the wrist ones, but like LT said if my hands are not swinging will it register? However, after talking with a few coworkers that have them, the Fitbit Zip seems to be one of the more consistent options when it comes to treadmills, elliptical, and spinning. I like spinning and since it sits at your waist it'll still register every cycle.

 

[Tilted]

Also it registers on the treadmill, but not on the elliptical.

Are your hands mostly stationary on the elliptical? I would think it would register fairly well on the elliptical. I'll have to try that myself.

The main sensor is measuring acceleration which, for practical purposes when it comes to human activity, means changes in direction - changes in direction of the wrist. So, as libertytyranny was suggesting, when you're walking with your hand resting on a shopping cart it isn't going to register nearly as much. The wrist is moving in a more or less straight line without a bunch of little accelerations. A GPS would register that you've moved a certain distance, and activity could be accounted for in that way (as well as in other ways).

On the other hand, if you move you hand back and forth a lot driving a vehicle, it will register that - even though you're sitting stationary.

 

[Pete]

I have one of the FitBit Zips. It's a clip on one for your waist. I got it for free from my company last year when they started some walking challenge. A series of taps will tell you the time, how many steps you've taken, calories burned, distance walked, and various smiley faces. I wore it for the whole challenge, and quite a while after, but it's such a PITA to remember to clip it on to my pants in the morning And also to unclip and re-clip to your new clothes when you change during the day! I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten to clip it onto my workout clothes thankfully I can manually enter steps and activities thru the fitbit app...but most of the time I forget to do that too I think I've also sent this poor thing thru the washer still clipped to my jeans too many times to count. Which means I could probably stand to get a new one. I was looking at the wrist ones, but like LT said if my hands are not swinging will it register? However, after talking with a few coworkers that have them, the Fitbit Zip seems to be one of the more consistent options when it comes to treadmills, elliptical, and spinning. I like spinning and since it sits at your waist it'll still register every cycle.

Mine will if my hands are in my pockets and so on. the only time I lost steps was about 6 laps in Lowes pushing a cart.

 

[Misfit]

I broke my fitbit watch when I was cage fighting.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I have noticed a few things. .... when there are weird atmosphere/weather changes it makes the altimeter wonky and you get credited for a bunch of stair flights you didnt take which can affect your cals for the day.

Today was one of those days, I probably should have registered 8-10 for today but instead it said I did 45 flights of stairs.