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figlover wrote:Hi Jeff......I was wondering about your current assessment of heart monitors included in Fitbit, Apple Watch, etc. I read from you awhile back that there was too much inaccuracy recommending the watches but recent advances may have influenced you to change your opinion. Have there been any real advances since your last assessment?
Thank you!
figlover wrote: . I was thinking recently of checking back in with you about how well the HR wrist monitoring tech is advancing. I upgraded to a Fitbit Charge recently, which has 24 hour HR monitoring as a default setting. It seems to track consistently. I don’t care if it is exact but only that it’s giving me enough numerical feedback to motivate my behavior. It is pretty interesting what it is deducing about my sleep quality. It seems to be able to depict graphically on the app my sleep stage amounts with oxygen saturation levels, REM/DEEP/LIGHT/ Time awake between stages. It’s fun seeing all that. I was a little worried that I was sleeping worse than average but it turns out I’m quite normal with sleep patterns.
figlover wrote: Do you like tracking any of that? How well do you sleep?
figlover wrote: I don’t know if I’ll ever need interval training data accuracy. I tend to keep a cardio level going for awhile and then stop after 12-15 minutes. Kenn Cooper said something like that in his Aerobics Way book I read back in the 70’s. Didn’t he say that there was a point where the diminishing returns on time (not effort) for achieving a good base aerobic conditioning?
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