10,000 steps per day

Can you clock 10,000 steps per day as per doctor's recommendation to stay healthy? In my opinion, quite tough. With modern transportation like subways, automobiles, bikes and the likes it is a real challenge to hit 10,000 steps daily. On my earlier post on https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/kelseylim/blog/tibetan-saying, I advocated 4 practices, one of which was to walk double, the secret to living well and longer. To borrow a quote from management thinker Peter Drucker, "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it". For my family trip in Taiwan last month, I reckoned that there will be plenty of walking about so I decided to buy a fitness watch to clock my steps as well as to monitor my health. I have been eyeing on Fitbit products for some time and I chose to purchase the Fitbit Blaze because it is less expensive than the Surge. It has a colour display and more stylish than the Flex 2 or Charge 2.

Fitbit Blaze

The primary features which I like are the Steps, Heart beat and the Sleep function. With all the walking about during the tour in Taiwan, I managed to clock 54,187 steps over a period of 7 days. Highest was 11,781 steps when trekking in the forest trail and lowest 2,113 steps when visiting various places of interest around the city. However, back home in Singapore, the result was rather poor on average 5,070 steps.

Weekly Report

It is interesting to note that I am not getting 6 hours of sleep on average per day. I tend to stay up late to communicate with WA members. LOL. It also tracked my heart beat during resting or sleeping at 61 bpm and fluctuate over a range of 62 to 65 bpm throughout the week. Somehow this was not included in the weekly report. I have yet to find out whether if the report can be customised.

Charging Time

Although the manual claim that the watch could last for 5 days, I found that at best it can only last 4 days. It is also rather cumbersome to charge the watch because firstly you have to push the watch face out from the strap and thereafter place the watch face into a special adapter for charging. Imagine you have another accessory to bring along with you when travelling. Charging is pretty fast, less than 2 hour for full charge.

Well, there are still other features under "Exercise : Run, Bike, Weights, Treadmill Elliptical, workout" which I have yet to explore. Will definitely give you further updates on these in about a month time. On the whole I give this fitness watch a 7.5 out of 10. I hope those who are contemplating to own a fitness watch will find this post useful.

Kelsey