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  2. I'd love it if you discussed 'disability tech'. I have a smartwatch, but only use three tools: a timer, an alarm, and the most important one: Fall Detection.
    (The timer and alarm are also for medical purposes.)

    It'd be very interesting to learn what's out there. Though I don't know if that's the sort of thing you use in your channel.

  3. We've passed that Fork in the Road long ago .
    People will get implants for this technology .
    " I'll never do that "
    The famous line many have said throughout the decades since the TV , PC , Smartphone , smartwatch , have been invented .
    It's inevitable .
    " We are the Borg "
    " Resistance is futile "

  4. I was once a runner .
    Then serious health issues made me stop suddenly .
    I went from running marathons to a pretty
    sedentary life .
    I got a Pixel smart watch and it has the Fitbit on it .
    I knew I had to get more steps in .
    I realistically had to set the goal of steps much lower than 10000 a day .
    I built up .
    Slowly trying to get to that 10000 step goal .
    It has helped tremendously with my physical therapy goals .
    I had to set the goals to my level .
    It has been a good addition in my life .

  5. I'm a fitbit charge user for almost 8 years. I really like to keep track of my stats and it keeps me motivated during my trainings.

  6. I have a FitBit Zip, which is just a clip-on I put on my bra near the strap; it might track my location but it can't track more than steps and distance, not the heart rate (BS) or sleep. Sometimes, I don't buy the batteries for it and I end up not wearing it for a while. Sometimes, FitBit itself will lock me out of the app for months at a time.

    My mom has the smartwatch version. She has come to me from time to time saying she got over 30k in steps in a day. I don't believe that for a second because she talks with her hands quite often. When I have gotten 30k+ steps, it has been on vacations where I am walking for 8+ hours. She works a desk job. The commercial of the lady who put a fit watch on her dog's wagging tail is the comparison I am talking about.

    I take most of what the watch collects with a grain of salt, especially since I can take my own blood pressure and pulse. I did an assignment once where I took my mom's blood pressure 3 times: once with a regular cuff, once with a bariatric cuff, and what her watch said; the watch was off by 20/10 mm Hg than the regular cuff, the lowest being the bariatric.

    It doesn't surprise me that people who weren't using smart watches lost more weight because they didn't take the steps into their calorie count unless it was at the gym. It's easier to say no to extra calories if you don't think you have "earned" them. Though as much as I hate counting calories, when I feel I need to get back on track, the apps make it easier so long as I take the higher calories when they give me a range.

  7. don't rely on technology way too much. You just got to have the guts and the motivation to do what you want to do in life.

  8. So, I've never had a Fitbit or any of these things before and from watching your video I was thinking of getting myself a Fitbit Luxe just to monitor my heart rate and steps, and mostly since it tells the time use it as a watch while walking and out and about. What is your opinion on something like that? I read that the Fitbit Luxe doesn't have any GPS so I should be fine no? Also, do I really need to download the apps to use a Fitbit Luxe or not? P.S. been walking without a fitness tracker or watch for a long time and that's because I reminded myself not some tech reminding me to walk or get my steps.

  9. So I guess she doesn't have a smart phone that is tracking her already. Lame info.

  10. i think them as trackers, theyre pretty precise, specialy apple wiht their new apple watch, their a big cash but theyre pretty good with all they try eveen with sleep and REM, light, deep phases of sleep, i think it more as a tracker than a motvation

  11. Personally I bought an Apple Watch as a smart watch first and a fitness tracker was a bonus but wasn’t the intent of getting the watch. That is likely why I have enjoyed the Apple Watch over the years where I couldn’t enjoy a traditional watch or a Fitbit. I’m now on the Apple Watch ultra making it my 4th Apple Watch and I really enjoy it for some of the things it can do like HomeKit support and Apple Pay and iMessage. I don’t care too much for the fitness tracking although it I do attempt to complete my rings each day.

  12. If you have an Apple Watch I highly recommend you review what data your sharing with third party apps, to see which apps have access to health data go to Settings -> privacy -> health. See what apps have access and question if they need that data and what benefits your receiving from that data being shared. HealthKit is end to end encrypted and isn’t used for advertising or data collection purposes however third party apps don’t have that same requirements. In apple’s privacy policy for advertising they list every metric they’ll use if you enable personalized ads(which can be turned off in settings -> privacy -> apple advertising) however even personalized ads don’t use any HealthKit data(your age and gender is accounted for however this is self reported in your Apple ID info)

    In fact it is directly stated in the advertising privacy policy “No Apple Pay transactions or Health app data is accessible to Apple’s advertising platform, or is used for advertising purposes. Apple does not know or make available to advertisers information about your sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or political affiliations.” Third party apps that receive HealthKit data can however generally use this info for advertising purposes so that’s why you want to review who has access and who needs to be removed. For example a food tracking app doesn’t need to know how much exercise I’m doing if I’m not using it as a general weight loss coach so you can disable individual data types both when permission is requested or at any point in the future.

  13. I tried a smart watch for a few weeks. The inaccuracies in the step counting were comical. One day it said a climbed over 70 flights of stairs but only walked down 30. I climb ladders and scaffold most days as part of my work so it didn't knoiw what it was counting. If I rode my bike 10 miles it didn't register any exercise because my arms weren't swinging like when I'm walking. If I play guitar for two hours it said I walked the entire Appalachian Trail in that time. One more reason against using a smart watch. Who wants another device that needs charging every day?

  14. For me, I got my first fitness watch because my alarm clock was so loud, it made the entire household upset. I saw the prices on the watches going down, and got one that could at least send me notifications, and the vibration was enough to wake me up without blowing the house with sirens. Over time, I became more interested in how the data all worked, and that in turn got me into figuring out how to apply the information elsewhere. I used it less to track fitness and more to see what was happening inside, if anything at all.

    That, and I still get my notifications, which itself was the bigger reason I wanted it anyway. Everything else is just a bonus I learned to work with.

  15. My fitbit went totally flat while i was in hospital. I set it to recharge and now it lights up fine but wont talk to the app. The app can 'see' it but it cant see the app. Utterly useless

  16. A fitness tracker is just that, to track activity, not motivate you to do anything ?, if the reason you exercise is because you get a higher number on your watch then you need some other reasons to be exercising otherwise you won't last long

  17. Oh boohoo. If you’re obese, losing weight is healthy. If fitness trackers help you have a perspective of your daily active caloric expenditures, it’s a good thing. Rather than making comfortable excuses for “you can be 150KG and healthy” or “fat is beautiful”

  18. I like my Apple Watch. When I forget it at home and use the treadmill for an hour, it says “hey lazy-ass, you haven’t done anything today “.

    Lol but I use my watch for messages, music control, and Apple Pay. The fitness part is extra but my main tracker is my phone’s camera on the treadmill’s workout stats at the end.

  19. The only thing i use my smartwatch for is as a stopwatch and timer. I bought it solely for that, exercice wise.

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