Fitbit!
It's *possible* that I ordered myself the new Fitbit Charge 2 last night.
(Er, I did do that. I totally did. In my defense, my company gives us a $150 payment towards fitness equipment/gym membership each year, so most of the cost of my new toy will be paid for from that. I'm usually really bad at finding things to claim, so hey, I'm actually using a benefit! Go me!)
I've been using a Flex for the last year and a half (it was what I spent some of my company credit on last year, and the rest of the credit went unclaimed *sigh*) and I've been surprised by how effective it's been at getting me up and moving and active. Not that I was a lump before, but it's amazing how much motivation I get from seeing little green stars against my day's step count and distance walked and activity minutes.
Particularly since they started putting little confetti bursts on the app screen when you hit a goal :-D
I went for the Flex because I wasn't sure how much value I'd get out of a fitness tracker and I didn't want to spend a lot on something I might not use.
It turns out...I get a heck of a lot out of it. I make an effort to get up and move around at least once or twice an hour, particularly now the app has a little tracker for how often you manage 250+ steps per hour. I make a better effort to get to bed on time, because I like getting little green stars for my sleep habits. I log my exercise bike time, and I make a real effort to walk more through the day and go for nice long walks more often.
In other words, I'm more active :-) And walks that would have felt like a hard slog a year ago are now pretty easy, so I'm getting fitter.
Fitbit just came out with new upgraded versions of a couple of their trackers. I'd been considering upgrading to a Charge anyway, but with the new version out, there are a lot of nice extras so the timing is perfect. Fitness-wise, I'm interested in the heart rate monitoring and all the things the Charge can do for interval training and breathing exercises. It's also got the ability to notify me about incoming texts on my phone :-) But for once, I'm actually most interested in the fitness side of it.
Should have my new pretty on Monday or Tuesday, so I'll report back when I'm set up on it.
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(Er, I did do that. I totally did. In my defense, my company gives us a $150 payment towards fitness equipment/gym membership each year, so most of the cost of my new toy will be paid for from that. I'm usually really bad at finding things to claim, so hey, I'm actually using a benefit! Go me!)
I've been using a Flex for the last year and a half (it was what I spent some of my company credit on last year, and the rest of the credit went unclaimed *sigh*) and I've been surprised by how effective it's been at getting me up and moving and active. Not that I was a lump before, but it's amazing how much motivation I get from seeing little green stars against my day's step count and distance walked and activity minutes.
Particularly since they started putting little confetti bursts on the app screen when you hit a goal :-D
I went for the Flex because I wasn't sure how much value I'd get out of a fitness tracker and I didn't want to spend a lot on something I might not use.
It turns out...I get a heck of a lot out of it. I make an effort to get up and move around at least once or twice an hour, particularly now the app has a little tracker for how often you manage 250+ steps per hour. I make a better effort to get to bed on time, because I like getting little green stars for my sleep habits. I log my exercise bike time, and I make a real effort to walk more through the day and go for nice long walks more often.
In other words, I'm more active :-) And walks that would have felt like a hard slog a year ago are now pretty easy, so I'm getting fitter.
Fitbit just came out with new upgraded versions of a couple of their trackers. I'd been considering upgrading to a Charge anyway, but with the new version out, there are a lot of nice extras so the timing is perfect. Fitness-wise, I'm interested in the heart rate monitoring and all the things the Charge can do for interval training and breathing exercises. It's also got the ability to notify me about incoming texts on my phone :-) But for once, I'm actually most interested in the fitness side of it.
Should have my new pretty on Monday or Tuesday, so I'll report back when I'm set up on it.
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