The Fitbit is a wristband that your body sends out to tell your brain when it needs to make a decision.
The Fitbit’s heart rate monitor and sleep monitor are not unlike the Apple’s iPod touch. The Fitbit’s heart rate monitor is actually a good idea, since it tells your brain when you need to work out. For the sleep monitor, it’s good to have a device that tells you not to sleep or sleep too much, because that’s usually the opposite of what you need.
The Fitbits are a great device and I love that they have both monitors, but I don’t think they are for everyone. Many people, myself included, find they don’t sleep all that well and that if they don’t sleep they’re not always as alert as they should be. If you use a Fitbit for a long time, however, your brain is constantly telling your body when you need to get up and workout. So its worth checking out.
I don’t get the fitbit people. It’s like they’re a bunch of fitness freaks who spend so much time looking at their Fitbit that they dont get enough sleep. Like a Fitbit is a device that constantly reminds you to get up and exercise, but if you’re like most people, you are constantly on your phone on the go and when you get up and move around the Fitbit doesn’t always tell you you need to get up and move around.
Fitbits are, objectively, a great invention. They’re a small device that is lightweight and easy to wear and carry. They also track a great amount of data and they are super accurate. The problem is that they are not that accurate.
In a nutshell, Fitbit is a device that keeps track of how many steps youre taking and its tracking is based on the amount of time you spend on your phone. They are really good at keeping track of short exercise efforts, but they lack the accuracy to make them useful for anything other than tracking your sleep.
For most people, the accuracy of your Fitbit will be a non-issue and the data it’s keeping track of isn’t important. But in the case of the people with extreme sleep apnea, their Fitbit is inaccurate because it measures the amount of sleep they have during their sleep. This means their Fitbit is very accurate, but it will have a very large margin of error.
Like most people, I was surprised to discover that you can use your Fitbit to estimate your resting metabolic rate. I’m not sure how accurate this is, but its possible. And by measuring your resting metabolic rate, you can use the same system to estimate your activity level. That’s the kind of info that is useful to fitbiters.
Its also a little inaccurate to say that you can’t use your Fitbit to estimate your activity level. You can. It’s just that it’s difficult. Especially if you’re not in a fitness setting, and you have a large amount of moving around to do.
I know that Fitbit is a fitness device, and thus the people who use it wear it for fitness reasons, but the fact still remains that it’s pretty inaccurate. For instance, it doesnt seem to be able to accurately give you an estimate of your resting metabolic rate. The most recent official estimate that I found is that it estimates your resting metabolic rate to be between 2.3-2.
