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Personal fitness has been a focus for me over the last year after I found myself overweight and consumed by a desk job. Donuts at the office every friday certainly haven’t helped.
I’ve tried numerous apps, meal plans, exercise logs, journals, pedometers and gadgets to try to help me with my goals to get in better shape. I find that most of them get lost or quickly become too complicated to work, have batteries that don’t last or have expensive online pay for service requirements.
The Fitbit Surge is the latest device I’ve tried. I’ve been using their Fitbit app on my iPhone, along with their wifi enabled scale, and a previous fitbit wristband (the flex) for 9 months.
I do like the scale and the smartphone app. It’s automatic recording of my daily bodyweight and body fat % have made it easier to record and track my progress. While the Fitbit Flex wrist band which was to be a step counter quickly lost it’s appeal. The Flex band had some neat features like sleep monitoring, vibration alarms and bluetooth connectivity. But the band itself had a bad profile, a poor fastening system, a too short battery life, and a finicky tap interface system which didn’t work well.
I’ve just bought a new FitBit Surge. This new band offers some significant improvements with a backlit LED touch screen display, a watch like profile, GPS distance tracking, Heartrate monitoring, a proper fastening band, numerous activity trackers, and text/call notification.
I really enjoy all of the integrated features in one device all sync’d in one place in a single app. If the battery on this thing lasts close to a week as they claim, I’ll be very happy. I suppose they could improve the look and the display resolution.
Has anyone else had success with fitness gadgets/electronics that they would recommend?
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