{"id":10108,"date":"2015-08-03T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=10108"},"modified":"2015-08-03T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:13:56","slug":"fitness-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=10108","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

People complain because their Fitbits, Garmins or Apple Watches aren’t perfectly accurate.\u00a0 Here is some perspective.<\/p>\n

This is a pedometer:<\/p>\n

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It is what people used to wear to calculate distance.\u00a0 It was inaccurate, noisy and unreliable.\u00a0 It only measured distance and it was accurate within about 20%<\/p>\n

This is a Fitbit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It is what people now wear to measure activity.\u00a0 It is much more accurate and reliable than a pedometer.\u00a0 It isn’t perfect yet but it is getting better. For measuring distance it is accurate within 5%.\u00a0 It also measures time, heart rate, steps, calories and stairs.<\/p>\n

Life is good and getting better.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People complain because their Fitbits, Garmins or Apple Watches aren’t perfectly accurate.\u00a0 Here is some perspective. This is a pedometer: It is what people used to wear to calculate distance.\u00a0 It was inaccurate, noisy and unreliable.\u00a0 It only measured distance and it was accurate within about 20% This is a Fitbit: It is what people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2D2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10111,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions\/10111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}