The BodyMedia® FIT System measures calories and activity throughout your day. That includes your time at the gym or
exercise class, but it also counts the calories you burn while shopping, playing with the kids, doing household
chores, and sitting at the movies.
In other words, when you’re wearing it, you’re measuring your life!
There are several other products that measure specific metrics during a specific part of your day. But BodyMedia FIT gives you a comprehensive view of your total activity on a daily basis. For example:
A pedometer counts steps, but we burn calories while sitting at work, lifting weights, and playing soccer with the
kids. Pedometers have no way of considering these distinct events because their view of calorie burn is: steps X
weight = calories.
People spend about 3% of their day walking or running.
An "accelerometer" system measures how much you move. A simple accelerometer view of calories is: movement X
weight = calories. Of course, smarter systems will try and account for walking-movement as opposed to
running-movement, but accelerometers don't have much to say about calories when you're not moving – when you’re
watching TV, eating dinner, or lifting weights.
People spend about 30% of their day moving.
A heart rate monitor measures calories during strenuous activity – like running, rowing and cycling – in a complicated manner that’s basically: Heart rate during physical activity X some personal information = calories.
While heart rate monitors can be good devices for understanding how your body functions under vigorous circumstances, they don’t measure calorie burn otherwise, which means you get an incomplete view of your daily expenditure.
People generally spend about 25% of their day being physically active.
The BodyMedia FIT System measures a more complete matrix of characteristics, and is therefore able to give you a better picture of
how many calories you’re really burning all day, every day.
