As a reward for losing 20+ lbs. thus far this year, I splurged a bit and bought a Nike Fuel Band as a reward for all of my hardwork. The Fuel Band is a relatively new gadget. What it is is a fancy pedometer. It counts your steps and your calories but the important thing is... it converts all of this into Nike Fuel Points.
You set your goal daily for how many Fuel Points you want to earn. 2000 for a fairly regular day and 3000 for a day where you'll be exercising. You can go nutty and have higher goals but I doubt I'll be doing that. The idea behind this is to hit your goal as many days as possible. So it's an hour before bed and you're 500 points short, you better do some exercise and get those last few points you need.
I got this Thursday night and couldn't hit my goal of 3000 because I just didn't have the time. Friday, I went to work and pretty easily hit 3000 and beyond. For the weekend, I decided to drop my goal to 2000 because I would be less active. Family came in on Saturday and I was pretty inactive so 4 pm rolled in and I only had 650 pts. So I got up and walked for about 35 minutes and bumped that total up to about 1600 points. I met my goal for the day. Today, we did our normal thing and I was sitting at 1550 at close to 7 pm. I walked for about 20 minutes and got to my 2000 point goal.
It connects via USB to your PC and uploads your stats to a website so you can see an hour by hour breakdown of your activity and how far you've walked, etc. It will even compare your activity by day over a longer period of time.
I'm pleased with it so far. It got me to workout a total of 55 minutes that I wouldn't have on a different weekend. It's giving my a tangible goal to hit on a daily basis and I think that's good for me. I'll be bumping it back up to 3000 for the work week. We'll see how it goes as time progresses.
I might post a video review of this later on. I haven't decided one way or the other though.
Nike Fuel Band......Sounds like a grunge band out of seattle. Ha ha.
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