This thing is so freaking cool. It measures your steps, and your sleep, it can wake you up at the peak of your light sleep and most importantly, keep you motivated to get your ass up and move.
Technical it is just a fancy schmancy pedometer but it does
so much more. First off, you set an
amount of “steps’ that you want to take each day and the bracelet will count
them for you. There are graphs that show you how many steps you take throughout
the day or during a certain activity. These are my “steps” that I took during
my Sunday spin class that I teach. It is nice to actually be able to see that
the class that I created translates into real movement on the bike. You can see
when there were faster songs vs slow heavy hills.
Pretty stinking
cool. Here is another example of Cycle and Sculpt. Here, there are breaks in the
workout because we were off the bike using hand weights and our feet were not
moving. Again, you can see the faster songs vs the slow heavy resistance ones. Amazballs!!!
Here is what a whole day of steps typically looks like. I just barely hit 10,000 steps on the 12th. I was totally pacing around the house trying to hit my 10k goal!!! Whoomp whoomp.
My favorite thing is the sleep function. Sayyy whaattt
this thing can track my sleep???!! Booyahh. I sleep like crap so this was one
of my big selling points. Here is a night of typical sleep for me.
The
high darker color is the deep sleep while the light blue is the light sleep.
Orange is awake time. I totally felt like I didn't sleep well last night too. I usually wake up around 3 am, which is what Susie Novak
calls the witching hour. We probably should text each other then because we are
both always up. Hi mom!!
The bracelet can even become an alarm clock. When I work out
in the morning my alarm is stet for 5:03am. I have the UP set for a 10 minute
block before that time period where if it senses that you are at the peak of
your light sleep, it will vibrate until you turn it off. And there is no
snooze!!! Wonderful! You wake up like sleeping beauty. Birds are chirping,
prince charming is there, and miraculously you have no morning breath! Crazy!!
It really does help me in waking up, but I still have karate breath.
Finally, because I am a super dorky engineer and I LOVE some
graphs and trend lines, the app on your phone enables you to trend different
attributes pertaining to your over all day. Steps, active time, idle time,
deeps/light sleep, etc. Here is a graph that shows a direct correlation of my
active time vs my deep sleep the more active I am throughout the day, the better my sleep is!!!
You can change the axis to any
thing that you want to see how two functions correlate to one another. Who
doesn’t love some bio feedback like that!
I think the only thing that could make this cooler is if it
was a heart rate monitor as well. Ehh cant win them all right?? There is a
calorie counter that adjusts based on your activity but I feel like my actually
HR monitor is much more accurate.
So all in all, I am quite the sales girl for this thing
because many of my friends have gotten one too!! We all follow each other and
egg each other on if we are being lazy throughout the day. We can also keep
tabs on each other food because the UP app links up with My Fitness Pal which
we all use as well. Basically, everyone should get one and we can all be on the
same fitness “team”!!!
All hail the Jawbone UP girls!!!
Do Great things
Linds
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