Health & Fitness
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Recommend your heart rate monitor/fitness tracker
So I'm looking for a fitness tracker that is decently accurate at calculating calorie burn during different types of workouts (ie: kickboxing, yoga, strength training). I haven't decided how high tech I want to get, whether I want something that's basically just a good quality heart rate monitor (I like some of the polar's), or whether I should splurge for something like the BodyBugg. The advantage to products like BodyBugg and MediaFit is that they tell you how many calories you burn in an entire day, while at rest, sleeping, etc. They also help you track the foods consumed against what you are burning daily, for a pretty accurate picture of your diet and activity level. However they typically require a monthly subscription for software. So I'd love to hear people's firsthand experiences, whether they found that splurging for the top of the line trackers was worth the expense, whether tracking everything they did/ate all day was just too much of a pain, or whether they have a more standard heart rate monitor/calorie tracking watch that they felt did a good job. I appreciate the help!
Re: Recommend your heart rate monitor/fitness tracker
I love my FitBit - for overall daily calorie burn I feel like it's pretty darn accurate, but I will admit for certain activities it's definitely off (like riding a stationary bike). There are ways to go in and "fix" the incorrect data though.
I love FitBit's wireless upload and the fact that I can look at my progress over time with all the charts and graphs they provide.
I eventually will get a HRM to supplement the FitBit info (for more accurate workout burns), but for right now I think it's doing an awesome job helping me reach my weightloss goals.
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