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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Anyone use one of those fitness bands that talk to your phone?
The ones that track jogging, or reps or sleep cycles and report back to an app on your phone? If so:
Which do you use? Do you like how it works? Which other ones did you try? What's good and not so good about it? TIA
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01-21-2014, 02:04 PM
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Whole family is a Fitbit flex user, it is pretty good, it really only works well when you couple it with logging on either the Fitbit website or My Fitness Pal (better and they connect to Fitbit).
It really works off of hand motion, so some exercises you need to log manually. I would have bought the one with the watch built in, plus the strap on the fitbit could be more rounded which would make it less obtrusive. Generally pretty positive on it... Dennis |
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01-21-2014, 02:14 PM
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I have the fitbit flex force. So far I like it. Hasn't made any less fat, though. But I am gaining awareness of when I really need to get up and move around more. It isn't waterproof and it is a pain to be sure it is clipped on correctly.
The jawbone up didn't have blue tooth. But it was waterproof and did stay on the wrist better. The nike fuel didn't have andriod support. That was as far as I looked. |
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01-21-2014, 02:52 PM
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Gave my wife the fitbit flex for Christmas....great product. Nice interface, good website, she loves it!
If you do non-impact exercise, however, you won't appreciate it. The Fitbit is an impact device, so cycling won't register much.....better to have something that has a GPS interface I think if that's your gig. We are on Atlas Peak in Napa, and walk up and down the road....so the flex does NOT have GPS and has a hard time differentiating between our activity. We don't get much credit (calorie-wise) for walking UP the hills, but it thinks we are really booking when we go DOWN the road....which is pretty opposite of our actual exertion and calorie burn. The interface is brilliant, the website is excellent, and the general experience has been great. She loves it.... thx td |
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01-21-2014, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Usa
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I wear a Fitbit Flex. I bought it mainly for the silent alarms in the morning. I kept turning my iPhone alarms off and falling back to sleep. Now I just tap my Fitbit in the morning to turn it off and fall back to sleep.
 I do enjoy seeing how far I've walked during the day and seeing what my sleep patterns are like. I leave it on all the time except for when it needs charging. Once every 9 days or so.
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01-21-2014, 08:44 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: North Vancouver bc
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i love my fitbit.
the alarm is great. the stats are great. the sleep pattern thing is interesting, to say the least. |
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01-22-2014, 08:15 AM
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Jawbone UP24. Had played with the fitbit before but really like the form factor of the UP and the App is better (i think).
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