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Living the Fitbit life

116 点作者 eroo将近 11 年前

13 条评论

anonova将近 11 年前
I had a Fitbit Force for a couple of weeks before falling victim to the the rash&#x2F;skin irritation problem [1]. It got quite bad, and my doctor had to prescribe a topical steroid for it to go away.<p>Fitbit handled the situation rather poorly. There were hundreds of users complaining about the problem in their community forum, and it took months for the company to initiate a recall. What annoyed me the most was that during this process, they claimed that there was nothing wrong with the product, and that if there were one, it was due to a nickel allergy. I know, with confidence, that I am not allergic to nickel. This was still their conclusion when they posted the final voluntary recall [2].<p>I now have a minor scar on my wrist, and I can&#x27;t recommend any of their products. This isn&#x27;t because they&#x27;re bad but how badly the customer service was during that period. I hope they can recover from that slip up, but I don&#x27;t see myself buying anything Fitbit anytime soon, especially with so many other nicer fitness bands being released.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Fitbit-Recalls-Force-Activity-Tracking-Wristband/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpsc.gov&#x2F;en&#x2F;Recalls&#x2F;2014&#x2F;Fitbit-Recalls-Force-Ac...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.fitbit.com/forcesupport" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fitbit.com&#x2F;forcesupport</a>
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ejain将近 11 年前
I&#x27;ve been wearing a Fitbit One for almost two years now. I&#x27;m not too interested in the motivational aspect, but use the data to back up health-related decisions.<p>For example, I was able to use the data to confirm that getting exercise late in the evening doesn&#x27;t affect my sleep (so no need to change my gym routine).<p>I ended up building an entire service to support these kinds of analyses (zenobase.com), hoping to find enough people who care more about data than badges :-)
eroo将近 11 年前
Once we start seeing reliable metrics for other common vitals, I&#x27;m optimistic we&#x27;ll see massive benefits from data insights. With a large enough sample size and the right vitals, I&#x27;m hopeful we can find highly correlated early predictors of some massive events: e.g., does 20 minutes before a heart attack have a reliable signature?<p>Is there any boilerplate legalese for open sourcing that kind of data?
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tannerc将近 11 年前
I&#x27;m fairly active — running on a treadmill for 20 minutes then lifting weights for 30 every day of the week, walking nearly everywhere, only using stairs, etc. — but I can&#x27;t bring myself to use these types of trackers.<p>I eagerly ordered the SE Nike+ band when it was announced, I used it for maybe a week before giving it away to a friend. Perhaps it wasn&#x27;t as interesting to me because there was no way to compare my numbers (no personal friends used similar devices).<p>The idea of personal fitness trackers still intrigues me (it sounds fun), but in reality the moment you discover your &quot;number&quot; as an average, it&#x27;s easy to lose interest.
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Tyrannosaurs将近 11 年前
I have (but no longer wear) a FuelBand.<p>My experience was that I found the data initially interesting (mostly that the idea anyone was under the Nike &quot;average&quot; staggering - I have a desk job and don&#x27;t consider myself massively active but easily hit it most days) but the problem I had was that in a busy life I found relatively little room to flex what I was doing in any substantial way.<p>My week day routine essentially goes - get up, get ready for work, get kids up, leave, drive to work, work, drive home, get kids bathed and into bed, tidy house, get dinner, eat... and by that time it&#x27;s about 9pm and I&#x27;ve either got to do whatever jobs need doing or relax. In itself that routine is relatively active outside the desk job (kids...) but there isn&#x27;t a lot of wiggle room.<p>My commute isn&#x27;t easily changable (I live in a rural location so anything other than driving is out), I can sometimes get out and go for a walk at lunchtime and I try to do walking meetings if possible (maybe once a week) but generally speaking my day is my day and I can&#x27;t really change much.<p>As a result measuring it didn&#x27;t feel like it had much point - the number was the number and it was relatively rare I&#x27;d look at it and think I could have done better.
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bluedino将近 11 年前
&gt;&gt; “It’s a Fitbit. You synch it with your computer, and it tracks your physical activity.”<p>Is it sync, or synch? The &#x27;h&#x27; really bothers me for some reason.
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kator将近 11 年前
My wife and I are avid fitbit&#x27;ers. We used to walk about an hour every day before we got them so it wasn&#x27;t like we became fanatics when we got them but things have changed in some very subtle ways:<p>We can get the same amount of walking in even when we travel to a new city, we used to slack off sometimes when we travelled because we didn’t have a “route” to follow. Now we just go and often walk until we get to 1&#x2F;2 our goal and turn around. Meanwhile we get to see so much more of the city we’re visiting. Our last trip to London we had so much fun we walked 8 miles out before we realized we needed to head back to the hotel.<p>We bought them for my Mom and Dad. My dad who is “Seventy something” walks me into the ground every day. He is on the west coast and we’re generally on the east coast. Every day he would beat me by 2,000 or more steps. I thought maybe my dad was taking advantage of the time zone advantage he had over me. To test this I stopped syncing for a couple days and then sync’d “all at once” and I managed to beat him. When I confronted him with this data he laughed and said “What else is an old man to do then to walk his son into the ground!”<p>My best friend has one also and he often loves to taunt me when I’m a bit behind. When we travel we usually smash his weekly records into the ground and the taunting goes the other way!<p>I’m an avid MMORPG player and since getting a fitbit it has slowly taken place of leveling toons or getting that next cool piece of gear. I have managed to make my life more of a game and enjoy the benefits of being more active while feeding that competitive part of my brain that want’s to win.<p>The only thing we love more is we have a Withings WiFi scale, tracking our weight along with activity and intake (Lose It! App for iPhone) makes for a pretty nice trifecta of tools to help meet personal goals. It also makes it easy when I slip up, I can look back “Ohh yea I really slacked off that week because of x, y or z”.<p>I have lost several of these and always replace them immediately. For a time my wife and I actually kept one in her travel case because we lost one when we were traveling and were crushed that we couldn’t replace it the very same day. We gave that one to one of our daughters and needless to say she’s in love with it.<p>Funny story: I lost one in New York city on a rainy night in December of last year. When I figured out it was gone my wife and I retraced our last walk and we found a fitbit in the rain but it wouldn’t turn on. I assumed the rain got to it so I took it home in hopes of reviving it. When I got it dried off I plugged it into the charger and it pops up “Hello Frank”. I laughed so hard I couldn’t stop laughing for ten minutes. My name isn’t Frank. We never found mine, I hope Frank found mine and reloaded it on his account. I’m still using Frank’s FitBit (Thanks again Frank) and happy to say it’s been a good companion in my day to day life.
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tptacek将近 11 年前
Does anyone have a sense of how accurate the M7 step counter is on the iPhone 5S? Is there a point in having a Fitbit if you basically always carry a 5S around with you?<p>I&#x27;ve been watching the step counter on the phone over my trip to the UK and I&#x27;m surprised how motivating it is.
jamesRaybould将近 11 年前
I love my fitbit and wear it pretty much religiously, it tracks how much I move in a day and how much I sleep, but 2 things irk me about it. It is constantly broadcasting my location via bluetooth LE. You have to have an internet connection to retrieve any data from it.<p>As a software dev I&#x27;d love to get my raw data out just to see what fun an interesting things I could do&#x2F;see with it. When I have asked in the past they have turned me down flat saying that they don&#x27;t provide access to the raw data because people could &quot;figure out how we calculate our raw data and algorithms, so this data is all proprietary&quot;
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craigching将近 11 年前
I had heard about &quot;10,000 steps&#x2F;day&quot;, was curious, so asked for one for Father&#x27;s Day (just over a week ago).<p>After one week, being a software engineer for over 20 years now, it gets me out of my chair once in the morning and once in the afternoon for 10 minutes each, just a walk around the block + some change if I walk for lunch. I don&#x27;t quite get 10,000 steps with that and I have two young children so it&#x27;s hit or miss if I can get out after work with them, but I do get 20 to 30 minutes of activity per day that I didn&#x27;t before. Totally, 100% worth it so far.
unsigner将近 11 年前
Wonderful article, but it&#x27;s major effect on me is more curiosity about the iWatch. I hope it does cycling and weightlifting better than the current crop of devices - I&#x27;m definitely NOT going to drop my 30 km&#x2F;day of cycling to walk more.
naveen99将近 11 年前
I just got into fitness 3 weeks ago. Fitbit seems interesting. There is a ton of info on <a href="http://reddit.com/r/fitness" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;fitness</a> Also <a href="http://stronglifts.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stronglifts.com</a> Tons of youtube videos on fitness, for example by pendlay Myfitnesspal is very useful also for free. I have already lost 3 lbs and am actually eating more than when I was a couch potato. I am also trying to apply discipline I am learning for fitness in my work and home life also. Love it.
gadders将近 11 年前
I wish someone could invent a FitBit equivalent for strength training, rather than cardio.
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