Alright...you guys got me thinking

[petitepedal ★]

Well @MoseySusan mostly....about getting a new fitness tracker/ watch...I used my fit bit religiously back when..but it was one that attached to my clothes..not a watch..

So hand out your opinions here 

[maddmaxx ★]

Amazon.com: Amazon Halo View fitness tracker, with color display for at-a-glance access to heart rate, activity, and sleep tracking – Active Black – Medium/Large : Amazon Devices & Accessories

And the least expensive: Amazon.com: Amazfit Band 5 Activity Fitness Tracker with Alexa Built-in, 15-Day Battery Life, Blood Oxygen, Heart Rate, Sleep & Stress Monitoring, 5 ATM Water Resistant, Fitness Watch for Men Women Kids, Black : Sports & Outdoors

Don't spend money you don't need to for name.

[Ralphie ★]

My eyephone is enough for me. It surruptisly secretly tracks steps. It is weird that my fitness pal does not give you the apropos calorie credit though. It severely lowballs it. Like 25 calories for 12000 steps when it should be much higher, like maybe 400 or so. 

[Razors Edge ★]

6 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

So hand out your opinions here 

Only choices are Garmin and Apple.  Garmin is absolute tops (and lots of variety) and Apple is da Bomb but only if in the Apple universe already.

[BR46]

38 minutes ago, Ralphie said:

My eyephone is enough for me. It surruptisly secretly tracks steps. 

I have a monkey on my back that does the same thing 

[bikeman564™]

45 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Only choices are Garmin and Apple.  Garmin is absolute tops (and lots of variety) and Apple is da Bomb but only if in the Apple universe already.

I don't have a watch, but do a Garmin Edge. Good quality device even after 11 years.

[MoseySusan ★]

41 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Don't spend money you don't need to for name.

Garmin data, though. GPS map including color-coded effort level. And the Connect feature lets me share activity data with mr. and my step-son in Phoenix, who trains to hike/climb 14k mountains. I’d connect with others here, too. 👊🏼I’m going for a ride today. 

[Razors Edge ★]

2 minutes ago, MoseySusan said:

Garmin data, though. GPS map including color-coded effort level. And the Connect feature lets me share activity data with mr. and my step-son in Phoenix, who trains to hike/climb 14k mountains. I’d connect with others here, too. 👊🏼I’m going for a ride today. 

"Ecosystems" matter. Support matters. Good software and good hardware matter.  

I don't get paid by Garmin or Apple, but they are the gold standard.  Garmin is agnostic - Windows, Apple, Linus, whatever.  It just works and works well.  But, if you're in the Apple world already, the Watch is packed with features that "just work".

[maddmaxx ★]

I have a Garmin watch and the Amazon watch.  The primary difference is a couple of hundred dollars.

[Parr8hed]

Pretty happy with my Apple watch.  I did not wear a watch for years but started with the apple watch and really like it.  

[MoseySusan ★]

20 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

I have a Garmin watch and the Amazon watch.  The primary difference is a couple of hundred dollars in Bezos’ penis rocket program and Amazon ownership of all my personal data. 

[MickinMD ★]

2 hours ago, petitepedal said:

Well @MoseySusan mostly....about getting a new fitness tracker/ watch...I used my fit bit religiously back when..but it was one that attached to my clothes..not a watch..

So hand out your opinions here 

Such watches are good for a lot of people.

Not for me in terms of weight loss and being out of shape, because its not the total amount of movement, it's how long I do the movement continuously or with very short rests. So I just need the stopwatch function on my Timex Ironman watch.

Studies by Covert Bailey at MIT in the '90's (he had a PBS health show) and by the ongoing Harvard Medical School Nurses Study show that walking less than 40 minutes at a time does NOT trigger an out-of-shape body into producing fat-burning and fat transporting biochemicals, so when I walk Jake, I make sure I have 2 miles + a little extra to hit at least 40 minutes.  For bicycling, the Harvard Nurses Study found 15 minutes to be the triggering point vs Bailey's 20 minutes.

Your body's pain and escape reflexes keep making carb-burning processes perform at 100% even when you're out of shape, but then your body burns carbs instead of fat when you exercise while not doing enough to trigger fat-burning processes.

Bailey says there is no such thing as a "slow metabolism."  That just seems to be the case when you're not getting in enough continuous exercise to trigger fat-burning.

According to Bailey's book Smart Exercise:

[maddmaxx ★]

3 hours ago, MoseySusan said:

Amazon hate is strong, but they do create a lot of jobs in the US.  They probably make the watches in the same place as Garmin but that's a different story.  Garmin...........meh.  About us | Garmin

[Razors Edge ★]

4 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Amazon hate is strong, but they do create a lot of jobs in the US.  Garmin...........meh.  About us | Garmin

So, Apple Watch it is!

[dinneR ★]

4 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

"Ecosystems" matter. Support matters. Good software and good hardware matter.  

I don't get paid by Garmin or Apple, but they are the gold standard.  Garmin is agnostic - Windows, Apple, Linus, whatever.  It just works and works well.  But, if you're in the Apple world already, the Watch is packed with features that "just work".

I have a number of Garmin products. Not a fan. They are clunky as shit. I like my Coros.

 

[Razors Edge ★]

8 minutes ago, dinneR said:

I like my Coros.

Do tell!

Maybe @ChrisL can swing by and get us some samples?

 

COROS Wearables, Inc.

3 Peters Canyon Rd Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92606 USA

 

[dinneR ★]

20 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Do tell!

I have the Apex premium. Easy to use. Battery life is great. I might charge it once a week. It tracks all forms of skiing. It is more intuitive than any Garmin product I have ever used.

My only complaints, The band lasted less than one year. I replaced it with a nylon band that seems much more durable. The backlight is dark. You have to tap the button to brighten the face. That is the trade-off for the long battery life. 

 

 

[shootingstar]

I'm not sure I would get a fitness tracker for anything.

I took off my cyclometer from my bike...about 25 yrs. ago. I found myself gettin' far too obsessed by  numbers:  it was spoiling my enjoyment of cycling by tracking my mileage too closely or how quickly I got to a certain destination.  I truly was tracking daily for about lst 5 years:  I kept a journal and made notes on weather/whatever.  

It was great when returning to cycling @32 yrs. after not cycling since I was 21 yrs. old.  I needed that powerful motivator to see my progress, especially mileage. It was a great endurance training tool for me, especially when becoming fit enough to do loaded cycle touring on multi-wk. trips with dearie.

But later, on days I didn't bike much, it pulled me down psychologically. So I stopped looking at my numbers.

Since then, I do have a general sense of cycling distance for routes I use often in 3 CAnadian cities where I've lived each for various years. (which I got from dearie since he still tracked his mileage).

[ChrisL]

9 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

Do tell!

Maybe @ChrisL can swing by and get us some samples?

COROS Wearables, Inc.

3 Peters Canyon Rd Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92606 USA

Yeah man how many you want?  That’s close to my last employer.

[groupw]

I have a Garmin 735 XT. I got it for duathlons. A Forerunner 230 (?) can do all the same basics for significantly less money. 
The reason I didn’t get an Apple Watch is it wouldn’t readily connect to a cadence meter and NOT to an HR strap simultaneously. Many of those items mean nothing to most other people. I still kick around getting an Apple Watch so I don’t need to run with my phone if I want music.