recomendations for a fitness tracker watch that can operate stand alone / no phone

[zzvyb6]

Look on TrackerByNet.com:laughing:

 

[Soundguy]

What's really funny is to have your pajamas on, eating a bowl of ice cream, and having your wife tell you she needs 800 more steps to hit 10, or 15 thousand for the day..... so there you two are, in your jammies, walking down to the corner and back at 10:30 at night!

yep i'v ebeen there.. it's time for bed and I look at my watch and wow.. I need 500 more steps to hit some x goal. and there I am walking out to the driveway for the heck of it.

 

[Soundguy]

Maybe try the simplest Fitbit that I use. No buttons or display. It is just a plastic blob that fits in the wrist band. You can put it in a pocket too and it will work. Yeah, you have to synch to a computer or smart phone but it seems pretty robust. Drives me nuts sometimes having to synch, the problems seem to be Fitbits servers, but I figure the Fitbit with a display and kept in a pocket is going to get lost fast. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Not sure there is a cheap pedometer and heart rate monitor. I have a heart rate monitor but it requires wearing a chest strap which is ok if really working out but a PITA to wear all day. My second dumb cell phone had a pretty good pedometer. My first smartphone had one as well but it would kill the phone's battery.

Later,
Dan

unfortunately, if it has no display and needs a sync, it won't work. no one makes one that syncs with a windows phone other than fitbit, and I need real time monitoring.. i need to look at my wrist and see heart rate or steps. not after the fact when I dig out the old desktop and sync it.

 

[Soundguy]

What model fitbit
I have hr that is one year old
Many cheaper versions are killed by mousture

Surge

 

[MossRoad]

unfortunately, if it has no display and needs a sync, it won't work. no one makes one that syncs with a windows phone other than fitbit, and I need real time monitoring.. i need to look at my wrist and see heart rate or steps. not after the fact when I dig out the old desktop and sync it.

Yeah, you're going to need a watch with a pulse detector/pedometer. Can't help you there.

 

[dmccarty]

She rides an elliptical trainer on a pretty stout resistance for an hour each morning. I can ride it about 8 minutes before I feel like I'm gonna throw up. :ashamed:

I knew a guy back in the late 80's who weighed 400-500 pounds at one point. He went on a strict diet and used a stair stepper/elliptical trainer every night for HOURS while watching TV. When I met him he had lost almost 200 pounds, well more than I weighed, by the diet and exercise. :thumbsup:

The reason I like the Fitbit is that I can get a bit of exercise here and there during the day, instead of HAVING to jump on a machine for an hour or two, go to the gym or go run. None of those approaches have worked for me for very long since time is hard to come by.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

yep i'v ebeen there.. it's time for bed and I look at my watch and wow.. I need 500 more steps to hit some x goal. and there I am walking out to the driveway for the heck of it.

:laughing::laughing::laughing: Did that last night! :shocked: Climbed into bed and realized I had not checked my steps. Got up and the wifey said you are not going to check your steps. :laughing::laughing::laughing: She knew what I was doing. I needed another 300ish steps to get to 15,000 so I had to get those steps.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

unfortunately, if it has no display and needs a sync, it won't work. no one makes one that syncs with a windows phone other than fitbit, and I need real time monitoring.. i need to look at my wrist and see heart rate or steps. not after the fact when I dig out the old desktop and sync it.

I have a Polar heart rate monitor that has a wrist watch and requires a chest strap. It will show heart rate and calories burned but not the number of steps. Don't think it would be fun to wear all day and I suspect it would eat batteries in both the strap and watch. I know some people are using exercise watches with GPS to count their steps but I have my doubts about their accuracy.

We had a challenge at work last year to see which group could get the most steps. There were some people getting 30,000 steps a day, every day, for months. That is not really possible. One guy who was one of the top "steppers" in one group was a long distance runner and he could not do 30,000 steps a day, every day. What he eventually figured out is that the GPS devices could be configured to estimate the number of steps and the estimate was WAY off.

To put that into understandable numbers I walk about 100 steps a minute or 6,000 steps an hour. So to get 30,000 steps would require 5 hours of walking. During the challenge I was doing 20,000 steps each day and sometimes 25K or 30K but it took quite a bit of the little free time I have and I was only able to hit 25K/30K once or twice a week. If I jog in place I can last an hour at this point and I can get about 9,000 steps or maybe a bit more. If one ran, one could get a bunch of steps in a "short" amount of time but I still think it would take a couple of hours of running each day, every day for months which is hard to believe is possible. Yet one group had quite a few people doing this, while another group did not. These are people sitting at a desk. If they had a more active job, getting the numbers would be easier. I wonder how many steps the janitors get each day? Gots to be 20K, 30K, 40K? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Sounds like you will have to get a GPS watch. I know my Polar watch/HR was accurate with the heart rate since I could test and verify. Not sure how well the wrist heart rate monitors work.

Later,
Dan

 

[MossRoad]

I have a relative that's a heavy equipment operator. He drives over an hour each way to get to work, sits in an excavator all day, comes home, smokes some bud, drinks some beer and somehow manages to get in 15K steps per day.... just no way. No way. Not possible. I think since its on his wrist and he plays with his joystick all day its registering that as steps. Well, that sounds weird... but that's the theory.

 

[dmccarty]

I have a relative that's a heavy equipment operator. He drives over an hour each way to get to work, sits in an excavator all day, comes home, smokes some bud, drinks some beer and somehow manages to get in 15K steps per day.... just no way. No way. Not possible. I think since its on his wrist and he plays with his joystick all day its registering that as steps. Well, that sounds weird... but that's the theory.

Good theory. I have a manual transmission in the truck and I do get some steps shifting gears. Not many because once I get into/out of the city I don't have to change gears that much. My truck will automagically lock the doors after it has started/stopped moving a couple of times. Some days, the door do not lock after leaving work until I am parking at the house. If I drove the truck in traffic, all day long, I would have a bunch of "steps."

I have read articles about people doing various things to get steps on their Fitbit. Putting the Fitbit on the ceiling fan, dog, etc. Kinda odd since they are just cheating on them self....

Later,
Dan