Over last weekend, my kid used her own allowance money she’s been saving the year and bought me a fitbit charge HR for my birthday.
I never would have bought one myself because I didn’t think I needed any gimmicks to track my fitness. But after a week having one, I can see how addicting it could be to have one. This thing basically tracks my BPM, # steps,duration of cardio, and a bunch of other things, and give me an instaneous status of how I am doing today versus other days. I thought jogging 3 miles a day would be enough, but clearly there are other things that I could do better as well.
I consider this thing as a tool health shame me each day to keep to a plan.
Of course folks that have discipline probably don’t need something like this, but for me that is wonderful the borderline that occasionally lets myself slip into laziness, I thought it was a neat tool to try to keep me on track.
There are probably a lot of cheaper alternativez. My kid bought one when Verizon was having a half off sale with no sales tax…
