Fitbit (and other!) activity monitor track-all

karmajay wrote:
Sydhart wrote:

I just did a workweek challenge and invited as many GWJ people as I recognized on my friends list. If I missed you please post your username.

Here is me I believe - feel free to add me https://www.fitbit.com/user/2W5DRH

Added.

Btw, is that a Tough Mudder headband in your profile pic?!

Sydhart wrote:
karmajay wrote:
Sydhart wrote:

I just did a workweek challenge and invited as many GWJ people as I recognized on my friends list. If I missed you please post your username.

Here is me I believe - feel free to add me https://www.fitbit.com/user/2W5DRH

Added.

Btw, is that a Tough Mudder headband in your profile pic?!

yepper!

It was fun!

Docjoe wrote:

Ok I spammed the top 10 on the GWJ list with friend requests (will be coming from Joe L.). Can’t get the group to show on the app though?

Looks like they don't have group support on the app, except for the public fitbit groups.

You can indicate your support for the idea in the feature request forum.

karmajay wrote:
Sydhart wrote:

I just did a workweek challenge and invited as many GWJ people as I recognized on my friends list. If I missed you please post your username.

Here is me I believe - feel free to add me https://www.fitbit.com/user/2W5DRH

Request sent. I thought this social stuff is just a gimmick but I have to admit, feels got to see the notifications about challenge progress.

I guess MobileSync data doesn't even count in the Friends rankings now (in addition to being ignored in challenges)? Why would anyone bother to send their Apple Health activity data to Fitbit any more?

Kurrelgyre wrote:

I guess MobileSync data doesn't even count in the Friends rankings now (in addition to being ignored in challenges)? Why would anyone bother to send their Apple Health activity data to Fitbit any more?

Does this mean non-fitbit wearable device / phone activity data?

Thanks for those starting up the workweek challenges. It definitely promotes challenge!

karmajay wrote:
Kurrelgyre wrote:

I guess MobileSync data doesn't even count in the Friends rankings now (in addition to being ignored in challenges)? Why would anyone bother to send their Apple Health activity data to Fitbit any more?

Does this mean non-fitbit wearable device / phone activity data?

Yes, specifically what the iOS Fitbit app offers to sync when no hardware Fitbits are known of.

karmajay wrote:

Thanks for those starting up the workweek challenges. It definitely promotes challenge!

+1 to this. Thanks for starting these. I have no idea what name matches up with who here, but it's fun.

I'm Mike S, by the way.

Being snowed in a few days this week hurt my total!

I see we've got 9 people in this week's workweek hustle. Room for one more. Anyone want an invitation?

I'm hoping to get 55k this week.

I'm Jason G. in the challenge. I've been starting them up. If there is anyone that wants in send me a friend request on Fitbit. I've part of the GWJ group on Fitbit too.

BTW, who is Hannah? It's just day 2 and she has 42K+! I'm the 2nd closest with 17K. lol.

Sydhart wrote:

I'm Jason G. in the challenge. I've been starting them up. If there is anyone that wants in send me a friend request on Fitbit. I've part of the GWJ group on Fitbit too.

BTW, who is Hannah? It's just day 2 and she has 42K+! I'm the 2nd closest with 17K. lol.

Or J.S., who's gotten about 150k steps the past two weeks.

You going to fire up a new one for this week? My 7th place finish bothers me. I want redemption.

Yep. I'll try to keep it going each week. They added a feature now on the challenges that once you it's finished you can go in and see results and there is an option to rematch the next week.

I'm mostly plague-free, so I should step things up a bit from my 10k or so total steps last week

Sydhart wrote:

Yep. I'll try to keep it going each week. They added a feature now on the challenges that once you it's finished you can go in and see results and there is an option to rematch the next week.

I may or may not have pressed that "Rematch" at some point yesterday. Looks like we've got another full group this week and people are off to good starts.

So...

I was looking at the Fitbit badges thing, and the highest steps badge is for 100,000 steps in a day.

IMAGE(https://www.developgoodhabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Olympian_Sandal_FitBit_Badge.jpg)

Suddenly I have a tremendous urge to try to get this badge. It's about 50 miles in a day. It would take me quite a bit of training to get to the point where I could try for that in one day.

Godzilla Blitz wrote:

So...

I was looking at the Fitbit badges thing, and the highest steps badge is for 100,000 steps in a day.

IMAGE(https://www.developgoodhabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Olympian_Sandal_FitBit_Badge.jpg)

Suddenly I have a tremendous urge to try to get this badge. It's about 50 miles in a day. It would take me quite a bit of training to get to the point where I could try for that in one day.

I think just about everyone in those leaderboard challenges uses the dryer to achieve those numbers. One where I entered there was someone who was putting in over 100k every day. Cheaters, I tell ya!

EvilDead wrote:

I think just about everyone in those leaderboard challenges uses the dryer to achieve those numbers. One where I entered there was someone who was putting in over 100k every day. Cheaters, I tell ya!

That's baffling. Cheating with a tool that's designed to help you improve your own health. So you buy a Fitbit to get healthier, then use a hair dryer to inflate your numbers? What a crazy planet we live on.

I've had a Fitbit since February of last year, and my highest badge so far is 25k. I should be able to improve on that (there are badges for every 5k step increments), but 100k would take some serious focused work. For 100k, if you can walk 20-minute miles, that almost 17 hours of walking in one day.

I did 50 miles once with a friend, when I was in college, and we jogged 20 minutes and walked 40 minutes, every hour until we were done. But that was before kids and work and life and aging and extra weight, and when I was training regularly. Even then, the last 10 miles were hard. My feet hurt a lot. I actually got to an odd point where it hurt less to run and more to walk. If I run 4 miles now, I feel it, so yeah.

Godzilla Blitz wrote:
EvilDead wrote:

I think just about everyone in those leaderboard challenges uses the dryer to achieve those numbers. One where I entered there was someone who was putting in over 100k every day. Cheaters, I tell ya!

That's baffling. Cheating with a tool that's designed to help you improve your own health. So you buy a Fitbit to get healthier, then use a hair dryer to inflate your numbers? What a crazy planet we live on.

I've had a Fitbit since February of last year, and my highest badge so far is 25k. I should be able to improve on that (there are badges for every 5k step increments), but 100k would take some serious focused work. For 100k, if you can walk 20-minute miles, that almost 17 hours of walking in one day.

I did 50 miles once with a friend, when I was in college, and we jogged 20 minutes and walked 40 minutes, every hour until we were done. But that was before kids and work and life and aging and extra weight, and when I was training regularly. Even then, the last 10 miles were hard. My feet hurt a lot. I actually got to an odd point where it hurt less to run and more to walk. If I run 4 miles now, I feel it, so yeah.

Not a hair dryer, a clothes dryer to simulate steps I don't understand it either but then again I don't understand why people would cheat at competitive games/videogames. Takes all the personal satisfaction out of it.

That is a lot of walking / running to hit 100k! I think in Peru I managed around 30k one day and I was worn out. On my 5 mile run days I usually only max out around 15k steps total for the day.

Edit: In regards to the cheating. A friend was recently telling me that his company had offered bonuses to employees who wore fitbits and ranked towards the top of the company ladder (CA tech company, obviously :D). This backfired because a bunch of employees would just tap their fitbits against their desks all day long. Then backfired back against a few of the cheaters when they started to get asked to join running/triathons groups and were clearly in no shape to do it.

EvilDead wrote:
Godzilla Blitz wrote:
EvilDead wrote:

I think just about everyone in those leaderboard challenges uses the dryer to achieve those numbers. One where I entered there was someone who was putting in over 100k every day. Cheaters, I tell ya!

That's baffling. Cheating with a tool that's designed to help you improve your own health. So you buy a Fitbit to get healthier, then use a hair dryer to inflate your numbers? What a crazy planet we live on.

I've had a Fitbit since February of last year, and my highest badge so far is 25k. I should be able to improve on that (there are badges for every 5k step increments), but 100k would take some serious focused work. For 100k, if you can walk 20-minute miles, that almost 17 hours of walking in one day.

I did 50 miles once with a friend, when I was in college, and we jogged 20 minutes and walked 40 minutes, every hour until we were done. But that was before kids and work and life and aging and extra weight, and when I was training regularly. Even then, the last 10 miles were hard. My feet hurt a lot. I actually got to an odd point where it hurt less to run and more to walk. If I run 4 miles now, I feel it, so yeah.

Not a hair dryer, a clothes dryer to simulate steps I don't understand it either but then again I don't understand why people would cheat at competitive games/videogames. Takes all the personal satisfaction out of it.

That is a lot of walking / running to hit 100k! I think in Peru I managed around 30k one day and I was worn out. On my 5 mile run days I usually only max out around 15k steps total for the day.

Edit: In regards to the cheating. A friend was recently telling me that his company had offered bonuses to employees who wore fitbits and ranked towards the top of the company ladder (CA tech company, obviously :D). This backfired because a bunch of employees would just tap their fitbits against their desks all day long. Then backfired back against a few of the cheaters when they started to get asked to join running/triathons groups and were clearly in no shape to do it.

Ah, a clothes dryer makes so much more sense, yes! I was a bit puzzled as to how a hair dryer would work.

Good humor on the CA tech company!

Yeah, 100k would be super hard for me now, impossible really in my current shape, unless someone were driving behind me with corn harvester. But it might be fun to work up to that, and could provide a silly yet oddly motivational purpose to getting in better shape. This week I'm just trying to up my step totals on the whole and get a string of days with 15k steps going. I think this weekend I'm going to try to get the 75 floors in a day badge. That should be easy and relatively painless.

My highest step day ever was when I drove a moving truck cross country about 800 miles. It counted all of the cab bouncing around as steps.

LeapingGnome wrote:

My highest step day ever was when I drove a moving truck cross country about 800 miles. It counted all of the cab bouncing around as steps.

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LeapingGnome wrote:

My highest step day ever was when I drove a moving truck cross country about 800 miles. It counted all of the cab bouncing around as steps.

Ha! That's much more creative than a clothes dryer!

Any open spots in a workweek challenge? I'd love an invitation if a group has less than 10 people.

EDIT: Got one, thanks katy!

I did 34-thousand steps last year, it was a half-day hike. Some 15 years ago we went for a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with my brother and we did 55 km one day (started 6AM, finished 10PM). It would still not suffice for 100,000 steps I guess.

wanderingtaoist wrote:

I did 34-thousand steps last year, it was a half-day hike. Some 15 years ago we went for a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with my brother and we did 55 km one day (started 6AM, finished 10PM). It would still not suffice for 100,000 steps I guess.

Yeah, 100k will be tough. On Saturday, I did a two-hour segment of 20-minute walk/15-minute run/20-minute walk/5-minute break. It was hard, but it was in 2-3 inches of fresh snow and 10-degree weather, so I'm not sure I can take much from it other than "Don't try for 100k in snowy, cold weather."

I got 14k steps during the time, and the pacing of 7k per hour would work to do 100k in 14.5 hours, so it's a proof of concept anyway as far as pacing goes.

I hope to up the length and do another long jog/walk again soon. I've also been trying to up my daily step totals to 15k. My legs can definitely feel the additional mileage.

I would love to be in a weekly challenge group! The ones I've done in the past are from work friends, and they've all sorta stopped. I'm a very competitive person (in a fun way, not in a I-want-to-murder-my-opponents way), so those groups really did help me.

How can I get added?

My username is Mechakoopa, and my name name is Michael L

Mechakoopa wrote:

I would love to be in a weekly challenge group! The ones I've done in the past are from work friends, and they've all sorta stopped. I'm a very competitive person (in a fun way, not in a I-want-to-murder-my-opponents way), so those groups really did help me.

How can I get added?

My username is Mechakoopa, and my name name is Michael L

Send me a friend invite

https://www.fitbit.com/user/48JN89

Likewise, accepting friends from GWJ:
https://www.fitbit.com/user/5HBH96