I decided to return the FitBit.
I wore the wristband
religiously for a week and I noticed that it was giving me an output as
if I'd climbed several flights of stairs per day when I hadn't climbed
even 1 total flight of stairs. Although the steps were relatively
accurate, the "active minutes" were not. The FitBit would record active
minutes as I walked around at my job, but when I got home and I was
performing my TapouT XT workout, it wouldn't record any active minutes
even though I was jumping around, running in place, etc. My heart rat
is highest while doing TapouT and yet no active minutes would be
recorded on my FitBit; I'd have to add those minutes in manually.
Obviously,
I'm not exactly sure how the FitBit records data. It doesn't seem to
use heart rate as a factor because it can't give you a record of your
heart rate. If the FitBit can in fact record a person's heart rate, the
company is doing its consumers a disservice by not activating that
capability as a function that can be tracked.
As far as the incorrect reading that I was climbing stairs when I wasn't, I
can only imagine that my stride sometimes imitates the stride of a
person climbing stairs, but I'm not sure how that might happen or how
the FitBit would know that. So I returned the FitBit to Sports
Authority for a full refund, and I can tell you my wallet is very happy
to have that $137 back.
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