opinions on Nike Fuelband versus Fitbit or other?

[Anonymous]

I am looking for something that requires minimal time understanding the programming interface--which would lean towards the Fuelband, I think. But I like the sleep feature of the Fitbit. Also, I bike to work and am wondering how either of these would handle that.

[Anonymous]

Love my fitbit. Super easy to get started. For any activity you'd have to manually log in the calories. For example, you'd tell it how long you rode your bike for and it would compute your calories burned.

[Anonymous]

I love the fitbit. A big selling point for me is that I didn't want to wear the (imo ugly) Fuelband bracelet. The fitbit clips onto your waistband or bra, so it can be worn in a professional or formal setting.

Very quick and easy to manually log activity. When I do strength training, I enter that and the fitbit automatically adjusts the calories burned for the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love my fitbit. Super easy to get started. For any activity you'd have to manually log in the calories. For example, you'd tell it how long you rode your bike for and it would compute your calories burned.

Can't fitbit measure your activity while you are riding? Why is there a need to input the activity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am looking for something that requires minimal time understanding the programming interface--which would lean towards the Fuelband, I think. But I like the sleep feature of the Fitbit. Also, I bike to work and am wondering how either of these would handle that.

I have Nike Fuel Band. I'm very happy with it. It is very simple and easy to use. You can sleep with it, but I don't since I don't like having anything extra on me while I sleep. So cannot speak to how it measures your sleep activity.

As for biking, I'd done both street biking and stationary biking. Street biking is no problem. I biked 30+ miles yesterday, speed around 12 mi/hour. I didn't really keep track, but I think it registered about 1500-1800 fuel points on my trip. Stationary bike is different story, it doesn't really track it well. I usually stick the band in my sock and it does measure some points, but I don't think it is accurate. I get more points for folding laundry then for stationary biking.

I thought about getting fit bit too, but decided against it. Main draw back for me was how you wear it. You have to put it on your clothing, which to me means easy to lose or forget. Fuel band is on your hand and very little chance of having it thrown in laundry or left in a pocket somewhere. The only complaint I have about fuel band is that you cannot add an activity not possible to track - like swimming, or if you forgot to wear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love my fitbit. Super easy to get started. For any activity you'd have to manually log in the calories. For example, you'd tell it how long you rode your bike for and it would compute your calories burned.

Can't fitbit measure your activity while you are riding? Why is there a need to input the activity?

It's really a fancy pedometer, so it measures steps. If you have it on your waist, it's not able to detect the extent of your activity when you are biking. So I go to the website, click "log activity" and enter the type of activity and the amount of time. The fitbit overrides the data it collected during that period of time, so it is not double-counting the calories you burned. I imagine it's a similar procedure for those who sync to their phones.

Another one to look at is the jawbone. A friend has one and really likes the sleep tracking features.