Comments on: Look out Nike Fuel band, UnderArmour’s fitness strap measures WILLPower!

By: Amazonia

Amazonia — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:42:00 +0000

Perzactly.

By: Amazonia

Amazonia — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:39:49 +0000

You are missing the point. These help motivate people who don’t do that much YET. I bought the Fuel Band for my 14 year old son who doesn’t move enough in a day. The psychological point that this item triggers is like a game. You try and better your score every day. You have something to compare with comrades and cohorts. I have the Jawbone Up and it is good for me to see an increase in my movement and my sleep. If we were competitive athletes on some level (for me if I was 20 years younger when I was into training) I would buy the Pear Personal Intelligent Trainer. The simple bracelet devices are great for the average person to encourage an increase in activity and track progress. They are always one. The ones that go around the chest are for people training while training. Two different ideas. They may not accurately measure calories, etc. but as long as they are consistent in measuring against themselves, they will show progress and that is what it is all about.

By: SL

SL — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:34:24 +0000

MJ is right…Ya’ll some haters… These devices give you enough basic info for basic people to understand. I don’t think they are trying to provide an alternative for you “super” health nuts that want it to tell you your blood type and how many crunches you are from 1000, its there for the newb that wants get active and wants easy to understand information about their workout habits.

By: Mike Oxlong

Mike Oxlong — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:38:05 +0000

It’s a glorified heart rate monitor. Go check on POLAR products they’ve been doing that much longer and are very well respected for what they do. As far as this product goes, I can only compare it to the Nike FuelBand, for the way they are measuring levels of exercise. Fuel vs Will. Sounds very arcade like to me. In any case, I am aware of which zones my BPM (beats per minute) need to be for fat burning vs Cardiovascular training, soo… Cutting to my point — We need to EDUCATE the public instead of trying to capitalize on their ignorance when it comes to healthy levels of activity, exercise and DIET+Sleep. Only then, the true results will show and we won’t need bogus numbers, we will see it and KNOW it . Having said that, I don’t think it is the end of the road for products like this and until one comes out that is actually worth the steep price tag, i’ll stick to what’s been working for me until now, Actual Will Power.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:39:44 +0000

I think you’re missing the point. The average consumer doesn’t even pretend to understand those metrics (heart rate training zones?!). Maybe they’ll get there in due time, but meanwhile there’s an obesity problem running rampant in this country if you haven’t noticed. So if effective branding or social media APIs get someone off the couch who otherwise would have loafed, what gives you the right to be a hater??

By: lt

lt — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:25:00 +0000

They are making up names for their metrics because none of them accurately measure calories, etc. In a way it is good, because there is a lot of misrepresentation and garbage data in this space that just confuses customers. Why not just make up a stupid metric like fuel or will power, neither of which are even good analogs for what they are really trying to measure…