Fitbit – Donich Website https://www.donich.co.uk Argyll wildlife and nature as seen on the banks of the Donich Water Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:20:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 Me and my Fitbit https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2017/01/27/me-and-my-fitbit/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2017/01/27/me-and-my-fitbit/#respond Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:20:00 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=6772 I got two new badges for lifetime achievements the other day. I prefer the lifetime achievement ones because they are on-going – the trouble with the one for steps in a day is that having got the award for 55K steps (26 miles) it is a bit hard to go any further than that. And for the weight loss ones you have to dynamically lose the weight – there is no award for keeping it off if you didn’t need to lose it in the first place.

Anyway – since a year past October I have walked more than 2500 miles and climbed the equivalent of 28,000 flights of stairs.

Put like that it sounds a lot and I suppose it is – but I saw the benefit the other day when I was helping my friend J clear out some junk from his flat. He lives in a tenement flat up 61 stairs, but I was able to run up and down them more than 10 times carrying various monitors, TVs and old computers (J is the original packrat) without really breaking sweat. It is hard to believe how overweight and out of condition I was before we moved to Argyll.

]]> https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2017/01/27/me-and-my-fitbit/feed/ 0 Another Fitbit Badge https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/10/03/another-fitbit-badge/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/10/03/another-fitbit-badge/#respond Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:08:13 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=6345 They don’t come that often any more as my record steps in a day is 55000 (about 25 miles), and my record flights of stairs over 500.

So the only awards I get now are the “lifetime” ones which are actually almost a year to the day since I got the Fitbit Charge – and today I got the “walked the length of Japan” badge which is 1800 miles.

It seems like a lot looked at as a ‘lump sum’ but in fact is only about 6 miles a day.

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