![]() The MySports app also puts out these nice little photos showing your route over a picture of your choosing: Goals are always driven by data – and this watch gives you the data to achieve your goals. In fact – having goals in general was something new to me in terms of fitness. The Adventurer helps me understand my limits, while keeping me on track to meet my goals. We climbed Arthur’s Seat together, and the Adventurer keeps right up – telling me my rate of ascent, my BPM, and how long I’ve been walking for. For example – my wife (Eileen) and I went to Edinburgh for the weekend with another couple. While the watch does everything a high end fitness watch should – steps, calories, distance, duration, location, heart rate – it’s the fact that this watch fit into my changing lifestyle that made it such a winner to me. The watch has worked well underwater while I swam laps on a trip to Massachusetts, and I can’t wait to take it skiing in Chamonix, France next month. This changed my world – as it meant that I could vary my workouts (couldn’t take my phone into the pool) – especially on days when I wasn’t running – I would be able to track the other exercise I was doing and get a better picture of where I was that week. I was able to link the TomTom MySports app to MapMyRun so that my activities automatically uploaded to my MMR account. No longer did I need to carry my weighty phone on runs – my watch tracked my movement and distance. It even has separate modes for indoor cycling versus outdoor cycling, treadmill versus outdoor running, and skiing versus snowboarding.īeing a TomTom, one of it’s best feature was the GPS system and its incredible accuracy (it can tell when I cross the road on a run). Without any configuration needed, the TomTom Adventurer activity tracker has separate modes for tracking runs, hikes, swims, cycling, skiing. ![]() Understanding a healthy lifestyle is all about being able to track those activities – and this watch gave me the tools to do so. Running became something necessary for health, but I also wanted to go on hikes and spend days wandering through the countryside as well as rent bicycles and swim and ski! This was the lifestyle change I was after – not the night after night of running along the same pavement. It wasn’t just about losing weight and getting healthy – I was actually enjoying the outdoors and pushing myself to not just run, but explore. As I was getting more and more into the running, I began to understand that my lifestyle was changing. This worked OK for a little while – especially when I was running the same or similar route quite frequently. When running, it annoyingly bobs back and forth as I run. My phone, a Samsung Note 5 (not the exploding version) is quite massive, and barely fits anywhere. The app on my phone was working alright, but it was a pain to take out my phone, and make sure it was tracking my movements before tucking it into my waistband and beginning my exercise. Mobile fitness tracking helpĪt this point – I had lost a decent amount of weight, and had gained some fitness back. But, it was super bulky and did require me buying a dorky waste pack to carry my phone and keys with me. It wasn’t until I started using a running app on my smartphone that I actually started to get accurate calculations of distance and pace. As it turns out, my basic fitness tracker was doing a few calculations based on how I swung my arms and how long I was running for to estimate the distance traveled. ![]() As the days and weeks progressed – I was able to run for much longer periods without walking.Īs September came, I was regularly running four miles three times a week – or so I thought. I did this until, according to my fitness tracker, I had gone a couple of miles. As my heart rate declined, I begun jogging again. I started off running for as long as I could before walking to catch my breath. The watch itself was very basic – it counted steps and stairs climbed, gave distances in miles and kilometers, timed workouts, and recorded my workouts in the mobile app upon syncing. It still worked – so I installed the app and began to run a couple times a week. Looking to change a traveling fitness routineĪt this point, I dug out an ancient activity tracker that I’d had, but rarely used, a couple years ago. At not quite 5’10”, this was becoming a rather large problem (pun intended). Hovering around 265 pounds, years of little to no exercise, tons of travel with fruity drinks and a sedentary lifestyle had put me looking at XXL clothing and hypertension. As spring moved into summer last year, I found myself at the heaviest weight I’d ever been.
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