These devices are cancer. They encourage people to chase the wrong metrics instead of actual performance, athleticism, mobility, and strength. They don't measure progress in skill training either. The only thing they are good at is running, but there they don't add any functionality your smart phone does not already provide.
Total cancer.
Get a little notebook. Keep track of your own stats and log your skill and mobility gains as well.
Obsessing over steps, calorie burn, miles run.. That's a shitty way to measure progress.
The one good thing I can see it providing soldiers in particular is tracking their ability to rapidly recover from intense exertion so they can shoot. You'd want to do lots of interval training, but the real metric is how long it takes your heart rate to drop down into aerobic range so you can shoot effectively. That's about the only thing that seems to apply here.
Does Fitbit measure the difficulty of the course you ran? Does it measure the load you carried?
The metrics these things measure are not really what you need.
FitBit just mapped out all US military facilities publicly
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Re: FitBit just mapped out all US military facilities publicly
You might be astounded at some of the randomness this stuff can track.Speaker to Animals wrote:These devices are cancer. They encourage people to chase the wrong metrics instead of actual performance, athleticism, mobility, and strength. They don't measure progress in skill training either. The only thing they are good at is running, but there they don't add any functionality your smart phone does not already provide.
Total cancer.
Get a little notebook. Keep track of your own stats and log your skill and mobility gains as well.
Obsessing over steps, calorie burn, miles run.. That's a shitty way to measure progress.
The one good thing I can see it providing soldiers in particular is tracking their ability to rapidly recover from intense exertion so they can shoot. You'd want to do lots of interval training, but the real metric is how long it takes your heart rate to drop down into aerobic range so you can shoot effectively. That's about the only thing that seems to apply here.
Does Fitbit measure the difficulty of the course you ran? Does it measure the load you carried?
The metrics these things measure are not really what you need.
My uncle is into Ironman, and so he cycles a lot. It calculates exactly how many watts he put out. (i.e. taking into account how much he weighs, incline, decline, terrain, ect)
90% of it is just getting you off your ass.
If the shit works for you, and it gets you off your ass, then its good. Regardless of whether or not it is measuring the right things.
