Originally Posted by Slava
Well bearing in mind, I've really only had this for about a week now. But the sleep aspect is really good, both in terms of the tracking and the metrics as far as recovery. I do like that for sure.
I also find that the strain is interesting, and it's just a bit different than other devices. It doesn't measure steps or standing or anything like that. Instead as you do things throughout the day, it figures out how much strain you have put on your body. Then it gives you a goal, after which it says that you're adding to your fitness. It gives you an optimal strain, and bases things off that. It intertwines that with the recovery, which basically depends on how long and the quality of your sleep. I really do like that.
The two things that I also like that I was sure that I would not are the groups and the "journal". The journal is something that you get prompted to do every morning, and it basically tracks whatever you want to track. The list for options there is enormous, and I'm partly just curious to see the correlation between sleep/exercise and some of the things that I'm tracking there (caffeine, for example). The groups are basically endless and I just joined some for pure interest. The groups track differing things and you can see where you rank. I like that because I'm a competitive person and I will try to "win" for sure. I had the lead one day in Calgary, but other people are super active. The Crossfit group has people doing insane things (the leader today has burned 7,910 calories...and I'm basically 13,000th!)
It's not perfect though. For me (iPhone), I have to keep the app open to keep it updating. If you close your apps regularly, (which I do), this can be a bit of an issue. It runs in the background, so it's not a big deal. And if you do close it you'll get a reminder to open it up and update at about the 3 hour mark. And the one other thing is the activity tracking. It senses activity when you are working out, but it doesn't seem to know what you're doing, so you have to open the activity and pick what you did. It's not the biggest issue, because my Apple Watch can't seem to figure out that I'm working out unless I specifically start a workout (one day I did a full F45 class where I normally burn 500-600 calories and forgot to start it, so the watch had me at like 150-200, which is a little questionable!).
Overall, I think it's really good. You can get a lot of data, and if you're interested in that kind of thing it's a great tracker. It takes 30 days for it to be fully calibrated, so I still have a few weeks to get to that point. I don't know if there are specifics that you want to know, or anything like that, but ask away and I'll do my best to answer!
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