So I work for probably the greatest company ever! We recently started a fitness challenge to try to get people more active and healthy, since we all work desk jobs. The first phase of this two part challenge, was to wear a big bulky pedometer for 15 days. I did my 15 days right away so that I could move on to phase 2. That was when we received our glorious FitBits!
This is such an awesome fitness tool! First of all it is sleek and slim, which was already a huge improvement over my bulky pedometer. Second of all it has so many additional features that my other pedometer did not! And lastly, it syncs to a website so you can track all your data!
Sorry the picture is kind of blurry. It’s from my phone. Anyway…so this pedometer, which is an understatement, tracks your steps, your distance traveled, the flights of stair you have climbed, calories burned, sleep efficiency and general daily fitness score. How awesome is that?!
This has been a great tool to get me moving. I didn’t realize how much time I spent sedentary throughout the day! It was absolutely appalling. I work a desk job so there’s 8 hrs of sedentary time plus the time I spend watching tv, or reading or just being lazy in general! There is a section on the website that gives you a pie chart of your activity levels throughout the day and I had way too much sedentary time! So that was my first goal. Get more blue lightly active time!
Also, since you can join groups of people to help motivate you, I had some competition to motivate me to increase my steps everyday. On average people walk 5,000 steps, supposedly. I was averaging under 2,000 steps some days! I needed to get off my lazy ass!
My favorite feature is the sleep tracker. You put the FitBit in a little sleeve, which is the left picture, and put it on your non-dominant hand. When you are actually ready to sleep, you start a stopwatch on the FitBit. Then when you wake up you stop the stopwatch. When it syncs to your computer, which happens anytime your are within 15 feet of your base, you can then see your sleep efficiency and how many times you woke up throughout the night. I knew that I wasn’t sleeping well, but I didn’t realize how bad it was! So I am considering finally going to see a doctor about it.
The website also offers so many awesome features as well. You can log activities, just about anything you can think of. You can also log your food which is great if you are trying to lose weight. You can see your calorie input vs. output. There are also several apps for your phone that you can link to the website that make it even easier to track activities and food!
I seriously can’t tell you guys what a fantastic tool this is and how much I love it! I recommend this to everyone, lightly active to extremely active. It gives you so much valuable information either way. If you want to get some more information or purchase your own FitBit for just $100, check out the website!
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