daily exercise

In my last post I extolled the benefits of my new fitness watch – mainly in accurately measuring the distance and time of my runs, but a few other (less important) features as well.

But the data doesn’t have to stay on the watch.  I can upload it to web-based applications and, Oh wow!  What a plethora of fun and procrastination that opens.

For example, I can view pretty-coloured graphs that track my daily health and fitness, such as movement and heart rate and progress towards daily step goals. [Read more…] about Living with a Fitness Tracker – Part 2

So, as pondered in an earlier post, I decided to treat myself to a fitness tracking watch.  I justified the expense (both to myself and to Mrs Chippy) on the basis that it was less than half the money I was saving on fuel by working at home.  I didn’t really need to justify the expense to Mrs Chippy at all; within a few days she had bought herself one too!

I have to say, I am impressed.  Obviously, it tells me the time and date – it is a watch, after all – but it will also fairly accurately track how far I run, walk or cycle – it’s even clever enough to work out what type of activity I am doing. [Read more…] about Living with a Fitness Tracker – Part 1