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Walking 10,000 steps every day. You may argue that the number 10,000 is a myth, but walking frequently and having a goal is not ;)

by talles 12y ago

Brakenshire 12y ago
Also, moving throughout the day - not just 5000 steps in the morning and 5000 in the evening, but regular movement making up a significant percentage of the total. I use a Jawbone band which buzzes me if I've been sitting still for 30 minutes, and then I try to find some excuse to walk around for a few minutes. I don't think activity bands have really yet been designed around preventing health problems associated with sitting all day, most just count daily totals. The Up band and the Vivofit were the only two that seemed to give you here-and-now information about inactivity, and it's a bit disappointing that other companies don't seem to be doing much to improve things in that area.
- brlewis 12y ago
  Disclaimer: I work at Fitbit. The Fitbit Surge's default watch display, "flare" shows radial lines for each minute you're active and dots for inactive minutes this hour. It's easy to see when I last got up and walked around. A fun side effect is that when you go out to get lunch and bring it back to the office, just looking at the watch face you can count how far a walk it was in minutes and how long you stood in line.
  - Brakenshire 12y ago
    That's interesting, thanks for the correction. I suppose it's more easier to include that kind of information when you have more space, with the larger screen. This, to me, seems like one of the big challenges that activity monitors are coming up against - now we have all of this data, and more and more can use it to work out what the behaviours are, how do you then boil that information down to limited, simple, intuitive visual or tactile cues that people can use to alter their behaviour in ways that they want to pursue, and improve their health. And, indeed, what is important to health - is it increasing minutes of active movement, decreasing inactive minutes, increasing aerobic exercise minutes, or is it specifically sitting which is damaging, and so on. Quite tough, but hopefully there's a lot of thought going on to tackle it behind the scenes. It also seems like something academia should be getting involved with - this is probably something which will become fundamental to human health as more and more of us are desk bound.

Walking 10,000 steps every day. You may argue that the number 10,000 is a myth, but walking frequently and having a goal is not ;)

by talles 12y ago

Walking 10,000 steps every day. You may argue that the number 10,000 is a myth, but walking frequently and having a goal is not ;)

Brakenshire 12y ago

Also, moving throughout the day - not just 5000 steps in the morning and 5000 in the evening, but regular movement making up a significant percentage of the total. I use a Jawbone band which buzzes me if I've been sitting still for 30 minutes, and then I try to find some excuse to walk around for a few minutes. I don't think activity bands have really yet been designed around preventing health problems associated with sitting all day, most just count daily totals. The Up band and the Vivofit were the only two that seemed to give you here-and-now information about inactivity, and it's a bit disappointing that other companies don't seem to be doing much to improve things in that area.

brlewis 12y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Fitbit. The Fitbit Surge's default watch display, "flare" shows radial lines for each minute you're active and dots for inactive minutes this hour. It's easy to see when I last got up and walked around. A fun side effect is that when you go out to get lunch and bring it back to the office, just looking at the watch face you can count how far a walk it was in minutes and how long you stood in line.
- Brakenshire 12y ago
  That's interesting, thanks for the correction. I suppose it's more easier to include that kind of information when you have more space, with the larger screen. This, to me, seems like one of the big challenges that activity monitors are coming up against - now we have all of this data, and more and more can use it to work out what the behaviours are, how do you then boil that information down to limited, simple, intuitive visual or tactile cues that people can use to alter their behaviour in ways that they want to pursue, and improve their health. And, indeed, what is important to health - is it increasing minutes of active movement, decreasing inactive minutes, increasing aerobic exercise minutes, or is it specifically sitting which is damaging, and so on. Quite tough, but hopefully there's a lot of thought going on to tackle it behind the scenes. It also seems like something academia should be getting involved with - this is probably something which will become fundamental to human health as more and more of us are desk bound.