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Galaxy Watch Fitness Tracked: Day 7

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Actions: Hard Workout Day, had to make up for the chicken nuggets the day before. 🙂

Fitbit Data:

  • Total Floors Climbed: 21
  • Total Steps: 18,034
  • Total Distance: 9.33 Miles
  • Total Calories: 5,000
  • Total Active Minutes: 108
  • Resting Heart Rate: 69bpm
  • Weights:
    • Total Time: 39 min (timer got paused, hence the discrepancy)
    • 114 avg bpm
    • Total Calories: 355
    • 1,704 steps
  • Elliptical
    • 2.14 mi
    • 139 avg bpm
    • 30 min cardio range
    • 4.3mph
    • 3,919 steps
    • Total Time: 30 min
    • Total Calories: 468

Galaxy Watch Data:

  • Total Floors Climbed: 1 (lol! I know I did more than 1!)
  • Total Steps: 14,097
  • Total Distance: 6.4 mi and 5.41 mi.
  • Total Calories: 3,769
  • Total Active Minutes: 203 (127 walking/76 min exercise)
  • Resting Heart Rate: 66
  • Average Heart Rate: 79bpm
  • Min Heart Rate: 64
  • Max Heart Rate: 156
  • Weights:
    • Total Time: 45 Mins 49 seconds
    • Calories: 613
    • Avg. Heart Rate: 109bpm
    • Max Heart Rate 133bpm
    • 1 min vigorous
    • 41 minutes Moderate
    • Steps:
  • Elliptical:
    • Total Time: 30 min
    • Total Calories: 306
    • Average Heart Rate: 140bpm
    • Max Heart Rate: 156bpm

Notes: Big day in the gym. Once again, i’m kinda tired of the Samsung Health UI. Not that fitbit is leaps and bounds better. It’s hard for me to tell whether or not I’m supposed to add the two distances, it SEEMS like it’s counting both my “active time distance” and overall walking distance. Adding them together this time get’s me over the fitbit’s data.

Galaxy Watch Fitness Tracked: Day 6

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Actions: Just a typical day off but did light house work. While I didn’t workout, I was painting my Family Room

Fitbit Data:

  • Total Floors Climbed: 9
  • Total Steps: 10,007 (had to walk in place)
  • Total Distance: 5.18
  • Total Calories: 3,933
  • Total Active Minutes: 0
  • Resting Heart Rate: 72bpm

Galaxy Watch Data:

  • Total Floors Climbed: 1 (lol! I know I did more than 1!)
  • Total Steps: 6,991
  • Total Distance: 2.89 mi and 4.79 mi. (Amazing that it has 2 different distances)
  • Total Calories: 2,787
  • Total Active Minutes: 111 (walking)
  • Resting Heart Rate: 66
  • Average Heart Rate: 72bpm
  • Min Heart Rate: 64
  • Max Heart Rate: 84

Notes: Still annoyed at the 2 different distances, my assumption is the 2.89 measurement is my active time and the 4.79 is the total since the 4.79 is closer to fitbit’s calculation.

Galaxy Watch Fitness Tracked: Day 5

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Notes: Once again, sorry for not posting the data on time. Been extremely busy and also very tired from exercise! Also switched to saying Day 5 cause 120 hours sounded a bit silly.

Actions: Saturday, lots of work to be done both in the gym and out. Lifted Weights

Fitbit Data:

  • Total Floors: 11
  • Total Distance: 6.23
  • Total Calories: 4,669
  • Total Active Minutes: 90
  • Weight Lifting:
    • Total Time 63 min
    • Total Cals: 725
    • Avg Heart Rate: 128bpm
    • 32 min cardio
    • 31 min Fat burn
    • Total Steps: 1,950

Galaxy Watch Data:

  • Total Floors: 6
  • Total Distance: 8,336
  • Total Calories: 3,697
  • Total Active Minutes: 63 min
  • Weight Lifting:
    • Total Time: 63 min
    • Total Cals: 852
    • Avg Heart Rate: 131bpm
    • Max Heart Rate: 160
    • 34 Min Vigorous
    • 30 min moderate

Notes: Nothing major, just the average day to day.

Observations: Since it was a Saturday, my total floors is MUCH lower since I’m not going in my office all the time and rarely go “Up” any stairs. Fitbit seems to be MUCH better at counting stairs throughout the day. My suspicion is that the same mechanism preventing the Galaxy watch from getting short trips is the same since I’m walking from the kitchen < 10 steps to my stairs to my computer. I’m liking both data points coming from the devices, but they are in fact very different.


Galaxy Watch Fitness Tracked: 96 Hour Update

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Once again, day off from the gym, got lots of sleep. Had several long meetings at the office. I wanted to go for a walk during lunch but I also wanted to each lunch away from the office since I didn’t bring food. Went out after work to celebrate my anniversary. Didn’t get home till 7:00PM and basically went to bed.

As of note, you may be noticing I goto bed early. I’m in bed for quite an hour or so before I fall asleep. Usually reading, playing a game, or talking to the wife. But occasionly I do get up and take steps but obviously they’re not counted and are generally less then 100 steps.

Fitbit Data:

  • Total Steps: 7,648
  • Distance: 3.95 miles
  • Calories burned: 4,119
  • Active Minutes: 61
  • Total Floors: 6

Galaxy Watch Data:


  • Total Steps: 5,815
  • Distance: 2.43 miles (See notes)
  • Calories Burned: 2,751
  • Active Minutes: 73
  • Total Floors: 2

Notes:

  • I’m starting to REALLY hate the Samsung Health app. When I open the Active Time for yesterday, I get the following information: Calories burned 2,741, Activity, 439. Distance 3.15 Miles. However, when I goto the steps counter, it says I went 2.43 miles and and burned 401 cal. I’m not sure which one is right, even on it’s own app it doesn’t agree with itself. I end up just using the Health app on the watch to gather data.

Observations:

Nothing major today other than it’s somewhat annoying when you don’t hit the goals. It’s not bad, but there’s a blank area there. I gues that’s the idea. The night before at the end of the day I have 9,800-ish steps, so I just walked around the house to get over 10,000. I didn’t care about the Galaxy watch side but it was there. However, this time I was ~2,500 short for Fitbit and 185 steps for Galaxy Watch. Already I’m wanting to lean toward Fitbit’s data overall, not that I took 10,000 steps but I tend to like their benchmarks better.

Galaxy Watch Fitness Tracked: 72 Hour Update

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Day off from exercising, went to office for long meetings, during lunch went to Costco.

 

Fitbit Data:

  • Total Steps Counted: 10,054.
  • Total Calories Burned: 3,884.
  • Total Distance: 5.19 miles
  • Floord Climbed: 12
  • 72bpm resting heart rate
  • Active Minutes: 0

Galaxy Watch Data:

  • Total Steps: 7,726
  • Total Miles: 3.31
  • Calories burned: 481
  • Total Floors: 2
  • 77bpm average (92 max, 65 min)
  • Active minutes: 114 walking
  • Calories Burned: 481 (assuming this is from walking)

Notes:

Nothing Major to note.

Observations:

There was a BIG issue I noticed today and had come up in the past. That’s using the grocery cart and walking around Costco. As I was doing this, the Galaxy Watch was clearly not counting steps. The Fitbit was from time to time but what I couldn’t discern was if it was doing it because I brought it up to view or if it was actually counting while my hand was on grocery card. Since there’s almost a 3,000 step difference and more importantly, nearly a 2 mile distance difference, that’s where I’m going to note the two. It seems the Fitbit is just much more sensitive. Once again, that may be good or may be bad.

 

Galaxy Watch Fitness Tracked: 48 Hour Update

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Woke up at 3:50AM, both watches immediately on wrists.

Went to the gym at 4:30AM, lighted weights for approx. 47 minutes including 3 minutes of elliptical as a warm up.

Removed both trackers at 7:20PM.

Fitbit Data:

  • Weight Lifting:
    • Total Time: 47 minutes
    • Heart Rate:
      • 30 minutes in Cardio Zone
      • 17 minutes Fat burn zone
      • Average Heart Rate: 131 bpm
    • Calories Burned: 590
    • 1,799 steps
    • 47 active minutes.
  • Total Steps For the day: 10,193
  • Floors: 8
  • Distance: 5.13 Miles
  • Calories: 4,370
  • Active minutes: 64

Galaxy Watch Data:

  • Weight Lifting
    • Total Time: 46min 51 seconds
    • Heart Rate:
      • Vigoroius: 31 minutes.
      • Moderate: 16 minutes.
      • Max Heart Rate: 151bpm
      • Average Heart Rate: 131bpm
  • Total Steps for the day: 7,882
  • Floors: 4
  • Distance: Can’t find this data
  • Calories: 3,419
  • Active Minutes:
  • Heart Rate Range: 74 -151bpm

Notes:

It seems, when exercising, the two devices have nearly the same performance from the two major things I’ll be doing. Lifting weights was good. Still seeing vastly different step counts. So far I think what I was mentioning was true, Fitbit is over what I actually stepped and Samsung is drastically under. This would be especially difficulting since the Fitbit appears to use movement in nearly any pattern and the Galaxy Watch tends to watch movement overtime to determine if you’re walking. It brings into question, what is a “step” really.

Observations:

The Samsung Health application on the phone is rather crap. Not that fitbit is the most direct UI, but at least I can view past data easily.
So far I think what I was mentioning was true, Fitbit is over what I actually stepped and Samsung is drastically under. This would be especially difficulting since the Fitbit appears to use movement in nearly any pattern and the Galaxy Watch tends to watch movement overtime to determine if you’re walking. It brings into question, what is a “step” really.