Outdoor Odysseys

No overly intrusive nagging, please…

Over the years, I have stuck with Fitbit for keeping up my level of physical activity. Because devices fail, I have had a few of their devices since the first one, more than ten years ago. Now that Google’s ownership is taking effect, some things are coming upon us and customisability is not what it might be.

The latest Charge 6 is one of those because of the way that they changed exercise tracking from what was working on its predecessor. Add in fitness features that are in the app that nag you too often and cannot be switched off if you happen to turn them off again, and you start to look elsewhere (Cardio Load is one of these). Even staring afresh with another account along with removing and reinstalling the Android does not seem to work.

Thus, I am minded to go away from the Fitbit ecosystem to something less intrusive, and this might be the time to do that. For a while, I have had a Garmin watch that is not the accurate altimeter that I hoped it would. Nevertheless, it has 24 day battery life and tracks the measures that matter to me. For those reasons, that might be the only one for me, and that is before I get to look at smartwatches to replace fitness trackers like what I have been using.

Adding a new acquisition is not a priority for me now, so I am minded to give some time to learning what the Garmin can tell me. Since, there is an Android app, that is the way to go. It records the number of stairs climbed, which takes me back to the days of the Fitbit Charge 2. Other useful measures may become known to me as time proceeds. A new start with added learning may be in order.