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I'm at about 325-330lbs right now myself, and I just pushed myself to walking a mile for the first time in years yesterday. My legs hurt like hell right now but I'm looking forward to tomorrow to do it again.
Edit: Also, if you see this OP, if you have an android phone check out Google Fit. Easy to set up and use, uses GPS to track distance walked and for how long. I've found, personally, that it helps me keep myself motivated because I can see my progress so clearly.
> to get a better understanding of people’s concerns about fitness apps
I wouldn't bother with a survey - go where these communities are that use the apps, and see what the complaints are that are surfacing naturally. There are plenty of subreddits to choose when it comes to fitness, go hang out in some and make a spreadsheet of all the things people complain about- app, hardware, offline processes, whatever. This will help you tabulate all the disparate feedback on discussion forums, turning anecdotal feedback into data. I just took a stab and the first guess r/fitbit has 69.1k users, so that might be a good start if Fitbit is something that interests you.
There's also app store reviews, which are basically open-ended survey answers to the question "what do you think about app x", e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness&hl=en_AU&gl=US .
Tonnes of reviews there, sort by 1 star, then go through each with a qualitative technique, like create a short post-it note summary of each major pain point in each review, then affinity diagram them into groups of similar problems to see how much an audience feels a specific problem. You could do it physically to get some nice photos of post-its on a wall (heh) or digitally with something like Miro.
I wouldn't go straight to surveys when the data you're looking for is likely already surfaced on the internet somewhere. It's hard to get anyone to fill a survey out when they're not motivated, e.g. if the survey is from the app company, looking to add new features.
Hope this helps!
We are getting a few support messages from KinFit users who are having trouble getting the app to work. If your mobile device isn't counting steps with KinFit, ensure you have Google Fit installed. It's comes natively with most Android devices, but not all.
If you do not have Google Fit on your device, download it from the google play store and install it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
This allows KinFit to track step data from your pedometer via the API.
If you are using a wearable (FitBit, Garmin, etc.), we've been working on ways to make your wearable talk withKinFit via the Google Fit API. There is a third-part app called Fit2Fit that makes fitbit use really seamless and easy, and we suggest you install it to enable use of your FitBit.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fitapp.fittofit
For Garmin, the problem is not yet solved. Their UI/UX isn't the most intuitive or seamless, and it's clunky (my opinion). I have yet to be able to make it work, but there is hope via one of the larger 3rd party apps (Strava and Nike+).
We will keep you posted!
For now, ensure you have Google Fit installed; that should alleviate most of the few issues we've seen so far.
You can download Google Fit and link MyFitnessPal to Google Fit. Then you have to install Health Sync to synchronise from Google Fit to Samsung Health.
- Download Google Fit (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness)
- Download Health Sync (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.appyhapps.healthsync)
- Setup Google Fit
- Open Health Sync and toggle on what you want to synchronise
- Give Health Sync acces to some permissions
- Now the data goes from MyFitnessPal to Google Fit to Health Sync and from Health Sync to Samsung Health.
I always deliver! I hated those 'lock safe' threads :(
You can disable Misfit Activity and Misfit's fitness tracking and instead use Google Fit! Google Fit keeps track of daily step count and what not. You can check it out on the play store here!
They actually turned it into a standalone app called Google Fit. It's not that great but it can kinda sync with Strava and other fitness apps.
I'm just using Samsung's S Health but on my previous phone I used Google Fit. Really gets the job done I think.
If you already have a smart phone, you can install an app like Google Fit, which can be just as accurate, if not more, than a pedometer.
I didn't realise that it came after the playstore adress like this.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
Go to the app:
- 3rd bottom menu item from the right, "Browse"
- Vitals
- Under "Discover", you should see "Track your respiratory rate" and "Check your heart rate"
- Press "Get started" on either item.
Measurement for the respiratory rate will activate your front-facing camera, and the heart rate will activate the rear camera and flashlight.
It's unfortunate that it takes several steps to get to these measurement features.
If you do not see the options in Step 3 & 4, ensure you've updated it to the latest version.
Where have I said his data from that ride wasn't accurate?
Just read the reviews on google fit. I'm not the only one that have a bad experience with google fit.
When someone brings you knowledge that you didn't were aware of it's fitting to say thank you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
> Well, I have Android, not iOS, so there's no native health app.
It doesn't play nice with FitBit though (despite google now owning them), so if you have a fitbit you need another app called fit to fit to sync between them.
In Android you need to download Google Fit ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness ) It does work in low power mod, you just need the Location option to be working In doesn't consume a lot of battery
Does this mean that we lose the icon's specific shape, though? For example I like how Google Fit's icon is heart shaped.
Do adaptive icons just get rid of all personality and individuality of an icon and just make them all square/circle/teardrop/etc shaped?
*edit: if we turn it on, I mean. I know that Nova is good about not automatically enforcing new settings on users.
> Google fit
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness&hl=en this is google fit. sorry for not clarifying it i assumed it was well known because of the download counts
Google Fit app for those on Android that want to download it already.
Out of all of them Map My Hike and/or Map My Walk seem like the closest replacement to MyTracks. I'm not even sure there is any difference between the two. They are exactly the same in every detail. I'd try Map My Walk first only because it's more popular so more likely to be supported in the future.
Another option is to get an activity tracking app for your phone
Growing up poor, I saw first-hand the pain of trying to lose weight with less money. Between the Herbalife-style products being marketed to you by that one aunt, to the infomercials with the weird exercise equipment that doesn't work and cost your $60 savings on your birthday, to knowing the $40/mo for a gym would be impossible on your budget, to not walking outside because that's how your one friend got mugged, it felt like you tried a million things to lose weight.
Now that I'm doing financially better, I'm testing out cheap fitness bands and programs along with CICO (and a food scale) to see what poor people would be more likely to try, since I have that experience from my past.
What they need first:
Food scale ($20 for bare minimum scale in a dept store)
Showing them where/how to get decent to good running shoes, by showing them seasonal sales. (FILA shoes in my area run $20-25/avg). Keeping it simple, since everyone knows how to walk.
MyFitnessPal for calories ($0, I pick this one for a reason)
Then they need some apps or gadgety things to make them feel like they bought something to get ahead. Or the free equivalents. I'm going by android apps since I don't know any poor people who could afford any sort of iPhone.
Pros:
Free.
Quick download - No wait like you would have buying a fitness tracker online.
Tracks steps in the background, no need to open up to track.
Syncs with MFP to give calories (Add app, then set as Step tracking source)
Auto-tracking can pick up bouts of running, biking, and walking, with maps.
Shows you what percent of people you were more active than in your area. (You were 99% more active than people in LA last week, with 123,000 step count)
Cons:
Your auto-tracked path won't show up until 30 mins later, Google Fit needs time to "think" about your GPS path.
Calorie timing shows to your timezone in your timeline, but calories seem to be pushed based on Google HQ time (PST). So if you are east coast, you get your 9pm-midnight calories put into the next day.
Xiaomi Band 1s ($22.99, can be found cheaper on Gearbest if you can wait)
Pros:
Heart rate and step counter for dirt cheap
Shows step progress to your goal if you lift your hand up.
Has SMS, phone, app, etc alerts available to buzz at you to check your phone.
Has a wake-up alarm.
Can make some feel like they "moved up" since they now have a fitness tracker "like everyone else."
Cons:
No screen display, just 3 LED lights
Overcounts a bit. Lower your exercise calorie consumption to 30-50% rather than 50-75% because of this
App display is simpler than Fitbit's.
Heart rate is on demand. You can get a $2.49 app called Mi-Band Tools that can let you set heart rate, specific vibration app alerts, and even a smart alarm. It works with all Mi Bands.
Pros:
Tamagotchi-type game where steps give you XP to raise alien critters.
Syncs with Fitbit.
Syncs with Google Fit (and through that, Mi Bands)
Free
Cons:
- No online discussion community, so you'll have to figure out the little parts of the game yourself.
I'll test one more one day, which is the Xiaomi Band 2. Looks like it'd be a good "cheap" Fitbit Charge HR replacement with an actual screen on it. I didn't pick it first since its non-sale price is around $40, and that's a huge amount for the super-poor. Might be good for someone starting around black Friday when it goes down below $25, though.
Its taken me so many months to research and try all this but it was worth it. Now I have a back-up plan if times ever get tough again. And I can show others that don't have much cash how to lose weight and get active without a gym membership. :)
Do you have the Google Fit app installed? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
Have you tried Google Fit? That will work with your phone too.
com.google.android.apps.fitness​
Unfortunately I don't. I've looked through the play store and it's really hard to find one that has decent permissions, a not shady looking developer, and usable UI.
I gave up a while ago so at this point it would just be me looking at the play store right now or hitting up a search engine to see if there's something useful.
When I was recording mine a couple times a day I was just storing it in a spreadsheet that I could send to my doctor as needed. The disadvantage there, besides lack of sync with the device, is that it isn't a custom made form devoted to those specific stats. The advantage is that it's platform agnostic and customizable. So if you wanted to track things besides just your bp and maybe heart rate you can make any notes you want. IDK why you need to track this data, but I do know it often goes hand and hand with diet... so it could be an excuse to track things like what you had for meals that day as well and you might see a correlation there as well.
That said... while I don't endorse any of these since I haven't used them... here are a few that looked like they might be reasonable to try:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartbloodpressure&hl=en_US
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.szyk.myheart
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portalgroove.bpjournal
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluefish.bloodpressure
Yup, it's quite nice. Here is a link to the app in the Google play store.
Get the Cronometer app. Get the Google Fit app.
Watch your calories. Exercise. Avoid red meat fats, especially pork. Avoid alcohol. Avoid processed foods. Especially avoid soy, high fructose corn syrup and all processed fats, starches and sugars. Most "junk food" and "fast food" is engineered to make you eat too much.
Do eat a lot of (in this order if you can afford it) fish, plant proteins and fats, nuts (Almonds, Walnuts), Dairy, Chicken, whole grains, raw fruits (Blue Berries, Avocados, Bananas, Apples) and all vegetables and salads.
A lot of guys here do the calories in calories out thing and say not to worry about what you eat. They are wrong. Your digestive system isn't perfect and just because some machine can get X calories or X nutrition out of a food doesn't mean your digestive system can.
I used Google Fit before I had a Fitbit.
I use Google Fit
Google Fit App
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Xiaomi Band 5 Watch App: Activity and Health Tracking
Google has teamed up with the World Health Organization and the American Heart Association to provide us with this app that will help us maintain a good level of physical activity and avoid a sedentary lifestyle.
Google Fit can sync with Mi Band and with various other bracelets such as Fitbit.
Among some of its features are tracking your daily exercises from your smartwatch or smartband, automatically detecting if and what type of exercise you are exercising, and logging data and performance for each of these exercises.
Download the application from here: link
😂Watch: unlock the phone program
it's Google Fit
Widget comes along with the Google Fit app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
I use Google Fit and love it! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
I use Google Fit for counting steps/workouts without a Fitbit; Fitbit App for doing the same but with a Fitbit on me; Rescue Time to track where my time is going when connected to a device, e.g., 5 hours on Reddit, 90 hours on Software Development, 10min on social media, etc...; MyFitnessPal to track my macros; Sleep as Android to track my sleep patterns and Gyroscope to integrate all of these apps and view my data in one interface.
Google Fit | Fitbit | Rescue Time | Sleep as Android |MyFitnessPal |Gyroscope
It is part of the Google fit App so I did not provide a link, but here you are: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness
If you're sure you have https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness&hl=en installed, then it should show up like any regular watchface.
If you use android, you could use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness&hl=en to track time/calories
Seriously, start walking to work or school, takes you a while? get up earlier! This time last year I was 96kg, I am now 67kg and I feel way better for it.
When I started walking it took me an hour, it now takes me just over 40 minutes each way, if I have quite an active day with lessons all over campus then I can get up to 2 hours of activity easily.
Google Fit seriously helped to point out what a lazy shit I was.
Looks like Google Fit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.fitness