Hello, my name is Danae and I'm a fitbitaholic....
I got a Fitbit Charge HR for my birthday last month and now I am addicted. I've been wearing it basically nonstop (unless I'm at the pool or it's charging) and it's opened my eyes to a whole other side of fitness that I wasn't paying attention to. I can look at my wrist and instantly see my step count, heart rate, miles completed, calories burned, and stairs climbed.
I workout a lot, but sometimes my Fitbit numbers are sad. There are days my 10,000 steps goal doesn't even almost happen, while other days I get 21,000 steps and feel accomplished in life.... Until the next day comes around and I'm a ball of soreness, but it was worth it! Because COMPETITION. I'm a liiiiittle competitive and Fitbit has the great thing where you can have mini competitions with your friends and try and get more steps than them.
It's been cool seeing how different exercises result in different step counts. For me; an hour of soccer results in 4,000-6,000 steps, an hour of TaeKwonDo gets around 3,000, 45min of Original Strength (on average because it depends on what I do) gets around 4,000, and 45min of jogging gets 6000-7000. Each of these exercises get my heart rate up but not all of them have the same step count result, which might be why jogging mixed with strength OS exercises is becoming my new thing.
Sometimes it's 9pm and pouring outside but you need 2,000 more steps to reach 20,000 so you go jogging and you can't go jogging at night without your phone or you get kidnapped (I watch too many murder shows) so you end up getting water in your phone screen and putting it in rice overnight, but it was worth it because 20,000 STEPS. (and my phone was fine, rice is good)
Other times it's 11pm and you are 800 short of 10,000 steps and you want a happy green star so you end up walking circles around your younger brother's room explaining why you need your Fitbit to vibrate and the app to turn green while he sits there questioning your sanity (this may or may not have happened last night).
It also tracks how you sleep! I have no issues sleeping, it has always been one of my talents, but I didn't realize how much I move around or exactly how long I was asleep each night until I got my Fitbit. It is interesting because I've found sleeping longer sometimes makes me more tired, who knew!? The sleep scientists did, but not me; until I got my Fitbit.
Fitbit has enabled me to have a tangible report of my daily activity, which has encouraged me to either step it up or showed me that I need to dial it back. More isn't always better, it's about balance and what level of movement pushes your health up. Always pushing that limit is how your health improves. Eventually I'll be like that guy on the Fitbit blog that walked 34,000 steps a day for a month and felt fine; but for now, I'm good with 10,000 :)
I got a Fitbit Charge HR for my birthday last month and now I am addicted. I've been wearing it basically nonstop (unless I'm at the pool or it's charging) and it's opened my eyes to a whole other side of fitness that I wasn't paying attention to. I can look at my wrist and instantly see my step count, heart rate, miles completed, calories burned, and stairs climbed.
I workout a lot, but sometimes my Fitbit numbers are sad. There are days my 10,000 steps goal doesn't even almost happen, while other days I get 21,000 steps and feel accomplished in life.... Until the next day comes around and I'm a ball of soreness, but it was worth it! Because COMPETITION. I'm a liiiiittle competitive and Fitbit has the great thing where you can have mini competitions with your friends and try and get more steps than them.
It's been cool seeing how different exercises result in different step counts. For me; an hour of soccer results in 4,000-6,000 steps, an hour of TaeKwonDo gets around 3,000, 45min of Original Strength (on average because it depends on what I do) gets around 4,000, and 45min of jogging gets 6000-7000. Each of these exercises get my heart rate up but not all of them have the same step count result, which might be why jogging mixed with strength OS exercises is becoming my new thing.
Sometimes it's 9pm and pouring outside but you need 2,000 more steps to reach 20,000 so you go jogging and you can't go jogging at night without your phone or you get kidnapped (I watch too many murder shows) so you end up getting water in your phone screen and putting it in rice overnight, but it was worth it because 20,000 STEPS. (and my phone was fine, rice is good)
Other times it's 11pm and you are 800 short of 10,000 steps and you want a happy green star so you end up walking circles around your younger brother's room explaining why you need your Fitbit to vibrate and the app to turn green while he sits there questioning your sanity (this may or may not have happened last night).
It also tracks how you sleep! I have no issues sleeping, it has always been one of my talents, but I didn't realize how much I move around or exactly how long I was asleep each night until I got my Fitbit. It is interesting because I've found sleeping longer sometimes makes me more tired, who knew!? The sleep scientists did, but not me; until I got my Fitbit.
Fitbit has enabled me to have a tangible report of my daily activity, which has encouraged me to either step it up or showed me that I need to dial it back. More isn't always better, it's about balance and what level of movement pushes your health up. Always pushing that limit is how your health improves. Eventually I'll be like that guy on the Fitbit blog that walked 34,000 steps a day for a month and felt fine; but for now, I'm good with 10,000 :)