Fitness/Sleep tracker band thing?
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Which is exactly why I've bought the £15 Mi Band.
I have a Band 2 and its sleep tracking is amazingly informative. It'll tell me how many times I woke up (I never notice), how much quality sleep I got (I never notice)...
...last night for example - I got 7h 41m sleep. 2h 2m was 'restful'. 5h39m was 'light'. I woke up twixe and it took 4m to fall asleep. I burned 627 calories and obtained 97% efficiency. However, I have absolutely no idea how it's of any use whatsoever.
I mean, what exactly can one do about one's sleep, when one is, er, asleep?
I'm grown-up enough to know when I'm tired and need to go to bed; don't drink caffeine late at night; and I wake up to go to work. The stuff inbetween just happens. I don't need a sleep tracker to tell me all that.
I suspect, in some ways hope, I'm just missing something and need educating on how to use the data.
...last night for example - I got 7h 41m sleep. 2h 2m was 'restful'. 5h39m was 'light'. I woke up twixe and it took 4m to fall asleep. I burned 627 calories and obtained 97% efficiency. However, I have absolutely no idea how it's of any use whatsoever.
I mean, what exactly can one do about one's sleep, when one is, er, asleep?
I'm grown-up enough to know when I'm tired and need to go to bed; don't drink caffeine late at night; and I wake up to go to work. The stuff inbetween just happens. I don't need a sleep tracker to tell me all that.
I suspect, in some ways hope, I'm just missing something and need educating on how to use the data.
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Don't know about that, although its what you make of it.
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A work mate uses this http://www.sleepcycle.com/ and he recommends it
On its own, its just data. That's still cool and I'm going to see if I can do some funky stuff with it. But I also plan to combine it with other data and see what I can find out. Do I sleep better at weekends or during the week? How much sleep do I need? How does my sleep pattern link to other things like what I ate and drunk and when? I am spending a lot of time in hotels, do I sleep better or worse then?
First step is to gather data, then see what I can do with it. But I'm also hoping that simply embaking on steps to monitor my sleep will make me want to improve it. Far to often I find myself on OcUK late at night talking about crap, when I should be sleeping.
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Forgot to add, my mi band also unlocks my phone (z3). But by far the most useful is the vibrate alarm. When the missus and I get up at different times its simply awesome to not wake other person up.
My Mi Band arrived today and I just say I'm absolutely staggered at the quality of it! It looks and feels like something Apple would produce (except for the silicone band maybe). Even the packaging has the quality if a top end phone.
If it does even a half decent job of tracking anything I will be incredibly impressed at £15. Frankly it makes my mates £100, plastic and cheap feeling UP3 look hilariously overpriced.
If it does even a half decent job of tracking anything I will be incredibly impressed at £15. Frankly it makes my mates £100, plastic and cheap feeling UP3 look hilariously overpriced.
There's plenty you can do when your awake to influence the quality if your sleep. Doesn't look like you need trot. Me on the other hand really should di more.
So a week on fitbit last time I wore it, misplaced the charger
Mon 4:48am -6:06am
Tues 5:24 - 8:30
Wed 6:36 - 10:27
Thur 4:57-7:08
Fri nothing
Sat 10:26 - 18:59
Now that was a bad week, but even the good weeks are poor. It's no wonder I generally feel rubbish, have worse memory than a gold fish and constantly feel tiered.
Today had more sleep but it's been 3 separate sleeps of about 2 hours each. (day off work)
Just one of many reasons planning to quit my job once I've saved up to do some traveling. It's not good for me. There's no routine, often work sat night, then back in on days on Tuesday. Or mon-Thursday nights, Friday off, sat night, then Tues-Thursday days then back in sat night. It takes me like 3 days to change my sleep patent by which time, I'm changing shifts again.
But it's not just shift workers, diet, light, noise, exercise, etc can all be changed to help sleep.
I've got a FitBit Charge HR. Can't complain, my main use is to monitor my sleep as I'm nocturnal yet have to get up to get into work for 7.30am (not a good combo, I know). Nice to see how many steps I'm doing too, and has ability to record water intake and calorie too. Easy to use.
It feels more like video game achievement awards. Unlocked another trophy/badge.
I have the Xiaomi band, seems to work pretty well, I've had mine on for 21 days and the battery is still at 62% which is extremely impressive! its the reason I went for this model over one with a screen and I have walked a total of 113.2 miles in those 21 days. its accurate as well, I've compared it on the walks I do every weekend with my GPS sports tracker on my phone and they both come extremely close, (the Xiaomi always comes up slightly less ).
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