Exercise Monitor - Anyone got a FITBIT or equivalent

[Redneck]

Well i have purchased a Fitbit Charge 2.

The restart of my exercise life starts today.

Well 1.6km walk today

So, did you walk around the block then? 1.6 km should take you about 10 minutes. I walk further than that, daily, just wandering around the house.

You ought to get some golf clubs and have a daily hit and miss around the Golf Course. Or get a dog and take it for a 5 km walk every morning and evening. The dog will love you for it and you will lose weight as well. A 5km walk would take an average person about an hour.

I have golf clubs and will check it out doing that

Dogs...Mmm...No....3-4 shits a day in the back yard is too much to undertake again,,,Besides the bloody dog would likely outlive me!

I only got the bloody thing around lunchtime, took me two hours to set up and check the options , add the Melbourne Cup so a 1.6km test was all the time I had available!

Still havent figured out all the features.

[Neferti]

Well i have purchased a Fitbit Charge 2.

The restart of my exercise life starts today.

Well 1.6km walk today

So, did you walk around the block then? 1.6 km should take you about 10 minutes. I walk further than that, daily, just wandering around the house.

You ought to get some golf clubs and have a daily hit and miss around the Golf Course. Or get a dog and take it for a 5 km walk every morning and evening. The dog will love you for it and you will lose weight as well. A 5km walk would take an average person about an hour.

I have golf clubs and will check it out doing that

Dogs...Mmm...No....3-4 shits a day in the back yard is too much to undertake again,,,Besides the bloody dog would likely outlive me!

I only got the bloody thing around lunchtime, took me two hours to set up and check the options , add the Melbourne Cup so a 1.6km test was all the time I had available!

Still havent figured out all the features.

I was having a go at you. You, Idjit. You spent $200 on something to tell you how far you had walked and got to 1.6 km. Does it also record how often you bend the elbow? Go for a piss?

Good to see that you are not a poor person on The Age Pension, eating PAL and beans on toast.

[Redneck]

Well i have purchased a Fitbit Charge 2.

The restart of my exercise life starts today.

Well 1.6km walk today

So, did you walk around the block then? 1.6 km should take you about 10 minutes. I walk further than that, daily, just wandering around the house.

You ought to get some golf clubs and have a daily hit and miss around the Golf Course. Or get a dog and take it for a 5 km walk every morning and evening. The dog will love you for it and you will lose weight as well. A 5km walk would take an average person about an hour.

I have golf clubs and will check it out doing that

Dogs...Mmm...No....3-4 shits a day in the back yard is too much to undertake again,,,Besides the bloody dog would likely outlive me!

I only got the bloody thing around lunchtime, took me two hours to set up and check the options , add the Melbourne Cup so a 1.6km test was all the time I had available!

Still havent figured out all the features.

I was having a go at you. You, Idjit. You spent $200 on something to tell you how far you had walked and got to 1.6 km. Does it also record how often you bend the elbow? Go for a piss?


Good to see that you are not a poor person on The Age Pension, eating PAL and beans on toast.

I realise that you idjit!

I asked my sister in law (a user of this monitor) if I could use beer instead of the recommended water and silly bitch said NO!


Poor Person!......I beg your pardon, I had to save up for three months for this, made the missus cut out the sausages and use mince from ALDI I'll have you know!

[Neferti]

I know, tough isn't it?

[Outlaw Yogi]

Call me a cynical old fart if you must (I'm 50 now) but I'm a bit dismissive of most gadgetry these days, particularly these wearable technology items, and tend to think if you need a gadget to monitor your physical activity, your life style is too sedentary, due to reliance on labour saving machinery and/or physical and mental laziness.
But then except for computers I've never even had a CD/DVD player, downloaded an app or had a smart phone.
Sure I recognise the value/worth of machines but I consider many modern devices unnecessary and too fragile.
When I buy something I never sell it, I use it till I kill it, so want durability.

I've just had a colonoscopy (today) so have spent parts of the last 2 days hooked up to monitors and bombarded with health related questions. My heart rate is 117 (exertion) over 57 (at rest), blood saturation at 98-100%, blood pressure low (forget number) and my BMI (fat level) is 19.9, which I'm told is as good as it gets. One nurse said I'm what people should look like.

But apparently my health/fitness is atypical, because it seems the average Joe is over weight and has a pharmaceutical regime.
When I said "I know people with trays for all their pills" the nurse implied that's the norm these days.
It seems nearly everybody is on pills, has some disabling ailment, or contains artificial pieces.

So I'm getting the impression that if nearly everyone has some medical issue, it's no wonder our society has a health crisis and medical insurance is a booming industry. And if that's the case we're collectively doomed. We may as well stick our brain in a cyborg/android/robot body and never have to worry about wiping our arse again.