My T-Rex 2 goes for about 10 days between charges. I get my watch faces from AmazFaces app.
I'd be lying if I said I never wanted one of those Seiko chronos. I just make due with the "Arnie"...when I wear it. Unfortunately, I have become a "smartwatch" pod person.My fitness watch. I'm an anolog guy. I record my meals and workouts in MyFitnessPal.
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That screenshot. Does it state with 4.22 miles you burned 2200 kcalories?I resisted any sort of "smartwatch" for years. Then I decided to start exercising, lifting weights, cycling, etc. This was last September. A short time after this, a friend gave me a very basic fitness watch, an Amazfit Band 5.
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Frankly, it was everything I hated about your typical smartwatch. It is...androgynous. Like something they'd make you wear in "A Brave New World" or "Logan's Run".
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I was supposed to stop wearing that, and wear this ambiguous thing instead?
But I gave it a try. And once I saw the impact it had on my exercise habits, my old watches stayed in the drawer. But if you aren't familiar with a fitness watch (I wasn't), you may not know that it pairs with an app on your phone. And when you enter in your age, height, weight, body and limb measurements, it generates useful health information.
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That is a current screenshot from my watch's fitness app, "Zepp". That is my step count, miles traveled, and estimated calories burned through exercise today. I went to the gym and walked a few laps around the park, so it is a lot of calories burned. And the cardio machines I use translate into steps in most cases.
The phone uses the swing of your arm to count steps taken and the speed you walk, and GPS for distance. It senses your beats per minute heart rate using the arteries in your forearm. From all of this, and your height and weight, it calculates calories burned.
Below that is my sleep monitor. If you wear the watch at night it will measure the length and quality of your sleep, based on heart rate. That wasn't too bad a score for me, considering I have sleep apnea.
Below that is current heart rate. Clicking on that will show you what yours was the entire time throughout the day.
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A bit further down on the screen are my exercise sessions. My total time lifting weights is a "session". Then I end and save that and start a new "session" for elliptical running, stationary bicycle, treadmill, etc.
And you can click on each field for more detailed data and workout history for day, month, and year.
Improving your numbers becomes much like having a "good" gambling addiction. A positive form of operant conditioning. It makes you WANT to exercise.
Eventually, I wanted a watch that, well...looks like a proper watch. So I got this Amazfit T-Rex Pro from Amazon. More features, better, more accurate heart rate sensors.
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You can select different displays. I won't belabor the watch's features, like the azimuth compass in case you need to do a "polar" call for artillery fire. Plenty of videos on YouTube to tell you all the functions.
I just thought perhaps some guys were sitting on the fence about these. These are definitely "tool" watches.
It's because steps/miles walked doesn't include some calories burned in other workout sessions.That screenshot. Does it state with 4.22 miles you burned 2200 kcalories?
Is it walking, or running 4.22 miles? I seriously doubt you burned that much. Should be 7-9 times less.
So does that 1950 include only the 15000 steps or also some exercise.It's because steps/miles walked doesn't include some calories burned in other workout sessions.
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Those are the "exercise sessions" I did yesterday at the gym, for example. "Indoor Fitness" is a generic setting I use for a machine called an Arm Ergometer, or Arm Bike. I use it for warmup and burning calories and it does add to your step count. "Strength Training" is weight lifting, and it is a pretty good calorie burn that adds to your calories burned count, but not to your step count. That is why there is a discrepancy in that first screenshot.
I also did quite a bit of walking yesterday. Had I done a screenshot, my step count ended at just over 15,000 and calories burned was around 1950.
Maybe the resting basal calories are included, in addition to those consumed by the exercise alone.So does that 1950 include only the 15000 steps or also some exercise.
My point: 15000 steps equals roughly 6.5 miles.
I really do not believe that burns 1950 kcalories.
4 miles of walking will roughly burn 250-350 kcalories.
Even if you walk fast I don't think you will burn more than 500 per 4 miles.
That's running. We are talking walking. Running will typically burn ~2,5 times more calories than walking.My cheapo fitness watche shows the following from today's winter trail run:
36 min
894 calories
5086 steps
4.75km
138 steps/min
Agreed. Just adding for perspective and to support your take on it. I agree with you thinking the numbers are off.That's running. We are talking walking. Running will typically burn ~2,5 times more calories than walking.
And your body's characteristics. I used to walk much. Still do, but my feet are't that good now. So I wondered how come much walking doesn't affect my weight. Then an acquaintance of mine who is a fitness instructor explained it to me. I have a stronger lower body. And walking for me takes very little energy.Agreed. Just adding for perspective and to support your take on it. I agree with your numbers being off.
Ones age/height/weight also affects calories burned and how the watch will calculate it's estimate.
If I want more calories burned and steps, I strap it to my dog for the run.
So does that 1950 include only the 15000 steps or also some exercise.
WIS = Watch Idiot Savant. A person who is somewhat of a watch nut, aficionado, geek, fan, admirer, etc; especially for more traditional mechanical watches or even quartz just as long as they are largely capable of being self-sufficient at keeping time.What does this mean?
Thanks.WIS = Watch Idiot Savant.