LOL! -- Last week's thread (12/9/2019) was "hijacked" by the 12/2/2019 thread -- and I love it! A great discussion on steptrackers, smart watches, fitness facilitators (whatever you want to call them) sparked up on the Dec. 2 thread and so it went on there. That was wonderful; just the sort of exchange of experiences and ideas we love to see on Staying the Course.
Would you guys like to continue that discussion here this week? Or maybe that topic's been exhausted, and we'll go another direction. In any event, I will talk a little about my trusty Garmin Vivofit 2, an older model I found on sale on Amazon for about 40 bucks about 3 years ago. It gives me my steps, of course, and my daily goal -- letting me know if I've met it. Also the date and time, miles walked, and quality and amount of my sleep last night (don't comprehend how it does that, but it seems to be accurate). Doesn't have heart monitoring -- and I understand why that's appealing to have. I have such monitors at home separately, but I can understand why it would be helpful to have them when you're out and about. So maybe I will buy my next Garmin with those features.
Another reason I like Garmin: You don't have to recharge the batteries. Just put in new batteries once a year or so (an indicator tells you when they're running low). A couple of CR1632s will do the trick. In fact, I just changed them (a simple thing to do, even for a klutz like me) for first time in approx 2 years.
Christmas/New Years holidays make this a hectic time around my household. But a happy one with family gathered around tree for presents, and then sitting down to a big feast. Wishing all our STC gang and any who may want to join our merry band a healthy, happy 2020. Whew, 2019 has been a challenge for my wife and I, with her terrible fall that put her in hospital for nearly a month and my aortic aneurysm surgery, with extra bonus of an Edwards bovine valve to replace my 15-year-old piggie model. (Yes, Duffey, we have that bovine kinship now, to go along with our St. Louis Cardinals fanaticism. : )
Cheers all,
Superbob
Would you guys like to continue that discussion here this week? Or maybe that topic's been exhausted, and we'll go another direction. In any event, I will talk a little about my trusty Garmin Vivofit 2, an older model I found on sale on Amazon for about 40 bucks about 3 years ago. It gives me my steps, of course, and my daily goal -- letting me know if I've met it. Also the date and time, miles walked, and quality and amount of my sleep last night (don't comprehend how it does that, but it seems to be accurate). Doesn't have heart monitoring -- and I understand why that's appealing to have. I have such monitors at home separately, but I can understand why it would be helpful to have them when you're out and about. So maybe I will buy my next Garmin with those features.
Another reason I like Garmin: You don't have to recharge the batteries. Just put in new batteries once a year or so (an indicator tells you when they're running low). A couple of CR1632s will do the trick. In fact, I just changed them (a simple thing to do, even for a klutz like me) for first time in approx 2 years.
Christmas/New Years holidays make this a hectic time around my household. But a happy one with family gathered around tree for presents, and then sitting down to a big feast. Wishing all our STC gang and any who may want to join our merry band a healthy, happy 2020. Whew, 2019 has been a challenge for my wife and I, with her terrible fall that put her in hospital for nearly a month and my aortic aneurysm surgery, with extra bonus of an Edwards bovine valve to replace my 15-year-old piggie model. (Yes, Duffey, we have that bovine kinship now, to go along with our St. Louis Cardinals fanaticism. : )
Cheers all,
Superbob
