recomendations for a fitness tracker watch that can operate stand alone / no phone

[MossRoad]

They're usually in competition with someone else for most steps.

 

[MossRoad]

I know my wife's fitbit gives her free steps when we ride in our bumpy old 93 Suburban. :laughing:

 

[BigBlue1]

The Samsung Gear S3 (and S3 Frontier) have full controls and display of everything on the watch itself. It's far more than a fitness tracker and way more expensive than some, but it is a very nice device and would do what you want. Also looks like a fairly classy watch, not like a gadget. Tracks sleep, steps, stairs, many type of exercise, etc. Provides coached workouts and reminders to get active. If you do use in conjunction with a phone also allows viewing/responding to texts & e-mails, weather info, more.

I've seen the Frontier version for as low as $249 at Best Buy, which is by no means cheap, but that's a lot better than the normal $349 price.

Rob

 

[dmccarty]

They're usually in competition with someone else for most steps.

Yep. In the challenge we were in, it was obvious that some people's numbers were bogus and it was stated as much. :laughing::laughing::laughing: So the people playing games really "won" nothing except snide comments. If one walked a million steps, you got a T Shirt. One did not need to cheat to get the T Shirt. Since the point of the challenge was to get people to exercise, the people who were playing with the numbers did nothing but cheat themselves. Sad it was.

Later,
Dan

 

[Streetcar]

My wife was in a group with people getting 500,000 steps a week. They claimed to be waitress

 

[dmccarty]

My wife was in a group with people getting 500,000 steps a week. They claimed to be waitress

10,000 steps is around 5 miles.

500,000 steps is 71,428 steps per day.

71,428 is about 35 MILES per day.

500,000 steps per week is about 250 miles.

If the waitress walked 2 miles per hour, 3 would be a good number if all they did was walk but of course they don't walk 100% of the time, they would have to walk over 17 hours to get 35 miles per day. Even if they were walking 3 miles per hour it would take almost 12 hours to get that mileage.

AND this is assuming the waitress works SEVEN days a week.

I think the waitress was beating eggs, or whipping cream by hand, and the Fitbit was on the hand doing the whisking. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Janitors must get a huge number of steps because of all of the walking they do but not 35 miles a day SEVEN days a week. One would think wait staff would get a large number of steps but how many work eight hour shifts much less 12?

Later,
Dan

 

[Soundguy]

The Samsung Gear S3 (and S3 Frontier) have full controls and display of everything on the watch itself. It's far more than a fitness tracker and way more expensive than some, but it is a very nice device and would do what you want. Also looks like a fairly classy watch, not like a gadget. Tracks sleep, steps, stairs, many type of exercise, etc. Provides coached workouts and reminders to get active. If you do use in conjunction with a phone also allows viewing/responding to texts & e-mails, weather info, more.

I've seen the Frontier version for as low as $249 at Best Buy, which is by no means cheap, but that's a lot better than the normal $349 price.

Rob

thanks, that's at least something i can investigate.

 

[MossRoad]

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500,000 steps is 71,428 steps per day.

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Lost me there... :confused3:

 

[Streetcar]

Have a friend that works in factory packing boxes. He averages 21000 steps working ,4000 on non work days. Folding towels from laundry will get me a couple hundred steps

 

[oosik]

Moss, I think he is saying - 71,500 steps per day - 500,000 steps in a seven day week.

Lawd 'O Goshen - you would think this is an ad for Redwing boots.

 

[Soundguy]

Lost me there... :confused3:

new math.

 

[MossRoad]

new math.

AAAHHHHH!!!! :shocked:

 

[dmccarty]

Lost me there... :confused3:

Waitress claimed 500,000 steps in a week. Divide 500,000 by 7 is 71,428 steps per day.

Later,
Dan

 

[MossRoad]

Ah... gotcha. And no, she didn't. :laughing:

 

[Egon]

Stand alone fitness tracker?? I use a belt. The hole in use is a prefect fitness indicator! Cost is around thirty five dollars. No batteries, phones or other such devices required for full real time display.

 

[MossRoad]

Stand alone fitness tracker?? I use a belt. The hole in use is a prefect fitness indicator! Cost is around thirty five dollars. No batteries, phones or other such devices required for full real time display.

Guess I have outgrown about 3 fitness trackers, then.

 

[mostly_gas]

Soundguy, timex has a heart rate monitor that does not require sync with a phone, read out doubles as wrist watch. you could then use whatever pedometer you want. I used the timex during bike rides from 2010 to 2017, have now changed over to ant+ gear.

 

[Soundguy]

I'll have to try to find out what product that is. thanks