Fitbit Charge HR motivates me to improve my health

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My Fitbit Charge HR is monitoring my health, fitness and even sleep pattern!
And subconsciously, I am making an effort to reach those “Recommended” Health milestones.
Fitbit Charge HR

Fitbit app has a nice dashboard to provide a summary of my activities (7×24 is possible!), synchronised from my Fitbit Charge HR. These are some of my daily milestones :
– 10,000 steps daily
– 20 Floors
– Perhaps sleep 6 hours plus daily
– I am even motivated to do pumpings and plankings to see how my heartrate measures up

Fitbit Charge HR

I am climbing the stairs more frequently instead of taking the lift.
I realised it took me 1800 steps (around 20 minutes) to walk from office to Boon Keng MRT station, and 1200 steps from Sengkang MRT to home.

Walking from office to Boon Keng MRT can be faster than a bus ride! (no waiting time, no traffic jams). Side benefit of healthy lifestyle πŸ™‚

My daily and weekly “exercise” is captured on my Fitbit app.
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My sleeping heartrate is 55 to 60, and jogging peak (slow pace) is around 160 to 170.
Fitbit Charge HR’s Optical heart rate monitor is constantly measuring my heartbeat.
Fitbit heart monitoring

The graph below tells me I am burning more calories when I sustain my workout heartbeat between 120 to 170.
Fitbit Cardio

Fitbit app is really cool! Track your exercise, be it Running, Walking or Hiking. I use Hiking for cycling too (Cycling is only available for Fitbit Surge)

* You will need to enable GPS and Bluetooth on your phone to track your exercise.

Refer image below, we cycled 16km around Sengkang and Punggol (Dayre blog link)
Fitbit sports tracking

If I make an effort to hit my milestones daily, day by day, I should become fitter πŸ™‚
Once I reach a new milestone, I will set a higher benchmark.
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Health is not only about physical fitness. We need to take care of our diet and sleep patterns too.
For those interested, you can even track your weight loss, calories burnt and intake of water!
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Let us look at the feature of Fitbit App, which is compatible for all Fitbit devices.
This is the app which will synchronised and extend your Fitbit’s capability.
fitbit app

Useful comparison from Fitbit website, I actually prefer the Charge HR compared to the Surge.
The small LED screen is less prominent.
fitbit comparison (image credit Fitbit)

Weekly summary, to make sure we are active and our toes haha. My Fitbit Charge HR is now my fitness companion and coach. I would also recommend moderation, do not go over-zealous and start tracking every minute of your life, every step, and every ounce of calories :p

I still feel a bit weird wearing my Fitbit Charge HR to sleep :p
weekkly status update

My Wishlist
– hope LED display can last longer, perhaps 10 seconds
– waterproof my Fitbit Charge HR, so I can go swimming (device is only splash proof)
– possible to track of cycling from app? (currently only available for Fitbit Surge)
– Love the 5 days battery lifespan, do take note battery life will be drastically shorten if we keep “tracking” our exercise (Run, Walk, Hike)

Fitbit icon

Follow our jogging and cycling links here :
Cycling
Running

I had earlier highlighted how Pilates kickstart my motivation to stay fit. Fitbit will help me gauge my performance, recommend more improvements and sustain my path of staying fit πŸ™‚

More details and updates about Fitbit can be found on their Website and Fanpage.

Fitbit Flex colourful (colourful Fitbit Flex)

Thanks to Fitbit, I have two Fitbit Flex (worth $148) to giveaway.

Do take note that Fitbit Flex will have lesser features compared to Fitbit Charge HR, notably heartrate monitoring. This would be the ideal gift idea for the sporty spouse. Being sporty can be fashionable too πŸ™‚

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1. Contest is on our Fanpage
2. Fans must first LIKE SengkangBabies Fanpage
3. Leave your name and email on our Fanpage (or you can message email address)
fitbit giveaway

4. Share this page (refer step 3) on your Facebook Wall and tag @SengkangBabiesBlog
(so that we know you are participating)

5. If you leave your comments (Can be same content as Fanpage) on my blog, you will get an extra chance to win the Flex
6. Contest ends 11 Dec 10pm, and two winners will be randomly picked

*This contest is only for those with a valid Singapore address.

You may wish to read Ingspirations’ Fitbit Surge review.

Author: SengkangBabies

I am a Blogging Daddy of four. Our kids are roaming Singapore to bring you FUN, This blog is use to capture our kids' growing up phases, and we want you to leave our blog with a smile :) View all posts by SengkangBabies

27 thoughts on “Fitbit Charge HR motivates me to improve my health”

  1. This would make a great new year’s gift for my hubby. To motivate him towards new year resolution of keeping fit in 2016!

  2. Hello Andy,

    Read your post on this Fitbit Flex! It’s really beneficial to a sporty person like me! It’ll be a perfect christmas gift for me if i were to win it!!

    Cheers,
    Rave

  3. I have aimed on this since many many months ago… Being a sham, having this would be a bonus for me as a motivation to workout n loss some extra pound πŸ˜‰

  4. Been aiming for a fitbit but didnt want to splurge on something that is a want and not a need…hope a fitness tracker can motivate me to exercise more!

  5. What a lovely gift to be given away this season! Hope to win this for myself! Perhaps, time to get fit? Hahaa!

  6. I am putting on some kgs recently and have a visible fat round my middle, oh no… i am really out of shape and I need to exercise more. Hope to lead a healthier lifestyle with this useful Fitbit

  7. This will be the perfect X’mas gift to myself =) Show me some love please since it’s the festive season of joy and sharing!

    Name : June Lee

    Email : junelee_1980@yahoo.com

    P. S : Also commented on your facebook page + liked & shared this post too!

  8. Amazing blog! I recently bought a fit bit charge and it’s really very helpful for me. In my opinion it is one of the best apps that I ever seemed as it can track my all activities.

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