I recently purchased a Microsoft Band, as a way to track my new found lunch time activity of running. And to be part of the techno ‘in’ crowd at the office.
I love anything that allows me to chart progression and see pretty graphs.
Anyway, I’m quite enjoying it so far – it tracks all sorts of interesting things, prompts me to get up and get moving if I’m stationary for too long, the quality of my sleep, etc.
Because I have a Windows phone, I can pretty much get the most out the band also. I have it all hooked up to the Microsoft Health app, which gives me access to more detailed statistics about myself if I go through the Dashboard online.
I just wanted to share my main observation of the day from this (because no doubt I’ll have other observations to share when I’ve been wearing it longer). Here’s a screen shot of my average calorie burn since I’ve been wearing my band.
My take on this – I burn more calories sleeping than I do actually exercising. Why am I torturing myself, getting all sweaty and achy when I could be burning more just sleeping?
I am possibly kind of sneeped about all this. I could take this to mark the beginning of a new golden age of lots of sleep for me, though. That is what the data is telling me to do, after all.
Think I’ll be sleeping on this while I figure out what this means.
That’s funny! I have a Fitbit, but I was getting a little obsessive with it, so I’m taking a break right now.
So glad to meet another Windows phone user! I was beginning to think I was the only one!
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I haven’t met many windows phone users either! Shame, really. I get on with mine quite well. Plus, it’s bright yellow and shiny. I possibly have magpie tendencies!
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I like mine too! I can’t figure out what people have against them. Recently we were in a phone store and when I mentioned mine was Windows, he said, “You’re kidding! You’re the first person I met who has one!” Seriously? They even sold the phones, and I’m the first one he met?
Mine is just a sleek black. It goes with everything. 🙂
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I think it’s an odd kind of snobbery. Apple and Google are ‘cooler’ or something. I was never one of the cool kids though, ha ha!
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True, I wasn’t either!
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