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Fitbit Anyone??

I have a Fitbit Flex - in fact if anyone wants it, drop me a PM with your address and I'll more than happily send it to you. Unfortunately I didn't find Fitbit terribly useful for me for the following reasons: [*]I do a lot of swimming; Fitbits aren't waterproof so you have to enter the time manually...which I'd generally forget to do [*]They can't track strength training; again, you enter it manually [*]Cycling? Again, they can't track it. Manual job [*]Treadmill. I found the results extremely dodgy. More accurate was a Polar watch with chest strap heart-rate monitor that automatically syncs to most gym machines and measures your calorie output based on your heart-rate. In short, I found the Fitbit to be just a glorified pedometer with a food log attached and in all honesty if that's the case, you can just load up the Endomondo app (or others of its ilk) that'll track your walking distance by GPS and sync it up to something like MyFitnessPal. The new Jawbone Up3 looks more promising as it has skin sensors so can track exercise that's not centred on taking actual steps. I believe it's waterproof too.

I swim with mine on with no problems

It logs active minutes which I find useful
But I agree about its distance setting being not so reliable ..
I suppose it just uses a bulk standard pace for everyone by height but not take into consideration that some people have long legs and some have short for their height ratio .

Just keeps me going for green on a few things and that gets me off the settee and out the door

If you haven't found a home for it I have a friend that would give it. Decent home ??
 
I would love it. How much do you want for it? Xx

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