You’re a Jawbone.

So I have a new favorite fitness toy. It is my Jawbone UP bracelet. My skinny sister, Carrie had one and of course I want to be just like her, so when I got my new job LJ let me have a “promotion present” and this was what I picked.

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.

Honestly it was because it was a work day. I have the bracelet set so that every 15 minutes of inactivity, it will vibrate for a second, just for a little reminder to move. Usually after 3 "vibrations" I get up and walk around the building. It is really nice to have something to remind me that I sit behind a desk all day lol.

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