Would this be useful for someone whose main fitness activity is CrossFit, but also wants to track overall health activities?
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It is an expensive piece of junk. It died after a month, and the company never responded to my complaints. Simply a glorified pedometer. No matter what I did during the day (intense circuit training or taking the day off) it reported the same calorie expenditure. Does not count "steps" when your arm is not moving (on a spinning bike or walking behind the lawn mower). A 75 minute hill climbing session on a spinning bike should count for more than 5 steps! Save your money and buy a nice speed rope instead.
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Buyer beware, I bought from Amazon and note that it is not returnable because it is a "wearable item"!!
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Hi N. Ford, good question. Basis bands are mainly designed to track overall health and wellness, not intense exercise like CrossFit. The band automatically tracking walking, running, and biking but does not track things like pushups and situps. Hope this helps!
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If your CrossFit includes a lot of activities in place, like jumping jacks, pushups, lunges, etc, then the watch will capture about 30-50% of actual activity. On the other hand, if during CrossFit, you move a lot in motions resembling running or walking, then Basis will detect most of that activity.However, given that CrossFit is a very high impact activity in terms of heart rate, Basis will give you less calorie credit than what you actually spend. Basis heart rate monitoring accuracy deteriorates at higher heart rates.
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I think it depends on what kind of activities you do in CrossFit. Sorry, I tend to just run for my primary form of exercise and some weights. I do know that if I don't feel like I exercised enough by looking at how many steps I had and how much time I spent doing something really active like run rather than walk, I will force myself to go to the gym and run on the treadmill for at least 30 min.
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I've had mine for a few months and do crossfit workouts with it so it gets used heavily and looks and is still working perfectly! So I would say yes.
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I use it for weight training, the elliptical (when I have to use it), running and Insanity/Asylum/T25 videos. I am a long distance runner by nature and habit. I have had no issues switching among activities with accurate heart rate, time, calories etc.
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I've used it with Turbofire. It tracks fat burn and fitness percentages, along with calories burned and other workout stats. I love it!
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I think if you attach the tracker to your shoe or sock, it will work best. I find that up higher doesn't count all the activity. The hip area might work also, depending on what kind of dancing it is. My suggestion is to try both and see which one works best for you and the specific activity. I LOVE my tracker!! I recommend it for whatever activity you plan on doing.
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I would ask Wahoo that question. I would think you would create a new workout for each use and keep track that way. Save the results off individually
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Not really because the watch is primarily meant to monitor distance covered in a specific period of time with the additional heart monitor which is paired with the watch. What I'm trying to say is that there is nothing wrong in using it for non-running cardio workouts, but if you do, you ignore other functions this product offers and therefore should maybe look for a different solution.
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I am sure it will. I am not sure what information you are wanting to track, but the FT40 will give you calories burned, time elapsed, minimum and maximum heart rate, percentage of calories burned from fat, daily & weekly summaries, fat burn/fitness percentages, etc. So with all of this information and more, I am sure it would be useful for HIIT programs.
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For others who have this question, I use Cyclemeter, and have it customized for Mountain Biking activites as well as working out in the gym. It did require a one time upgrade fee of $5, but that unlocked everything that other apps charge annual subscriptions for. I switched to this from the MapMy series and have loved the combo heart rate + exercise/fitness tracking.
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Yes,I consider it a vital adjunct to remaining fit. The only caveat I might offer is that it seems so simple that you might overdue. It only requires a maximum of three times a week for brief periods to get the effect. After long use,I have reduced my use to once or twice a week.It's a very powerfully fitness tool I would not be without.
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Yes, I do upload courses from Garmin Connect and it does a pretty good job of keeping me on track.
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It's doesn't really track weightless but it will save the last body fat I and water reading, you can then compare your pervious stats to your current stats
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It could be used continuously but it would be difficult during exercise as it is held on by friction. The app records, however, only the last reading. You could write an app that theoretically talks to it to continuously record but iHealth would need to release an API
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The "beats" are easy to to follow, so I would say yes. It's a great way to start your workout journey.
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The heart rate monitor with the band has not been very dependable. Honestly I'm looking at the Under Armor monitor instead. The band itself is excellent for tracking your steps and I find it helpful for my personal training clients to keep active.
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I am not 100% sure because I had vivofit less than 24 hours. I was going to use it for cross training workout but had a bit hard time to create event. Unlike other tracker that is a lot easier. sorry could not help you much here.
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Its part of the exercise portion of the diet and food tracker app...it is all in the same one!