If you can't take an hour out of each day to do an intensive physical activity (as in actually raising your heart rate, not just building up arbitrary points by moving around more), you're doing it wrong.
Taking regular time out for physical activity gives you fitness (real fitness) and focus (which helps you do your job more efficiently). These "fuel bands" are basically expensive ways to fool yourself.
> If you can't take an hour out of each day... you're doing it wrong.
So if you work a nine-hour day, take 3-hour evening classes to advance your career, get the required 8 hours of sleep a night, commute for 2 hours, spend 1 hour with your family, and then another hour for showering, dressing, breakfast, etc., you're doing it wrong?
I think a lot of people don't have an extra hour every day to spare. Your attitude is awfully condescending.
You may think I'm being condescending but I'm not. This is not my judgment of you or anyone else; these are the cold, hard facts of life.
If you don't keep your body in shape, it WILL fall apart on you. An investment in your body is an investment in your future. You can either be the 70 year old who runs marathons, or the 70 year old with a walker. The choice is yours.
There are a million reasons why it can't be done, but the funny thing is, when someone wants something bad enough, he tends to find ways to make it work.
I'm sure you can keep heaping more and more things on our fictional family straw man until it's impossible for him to do anything at all. That's fine. There's always one more reason why it can't be done or shouldn't even be attempted. But life is quite indifferent to our reasons, and plods on just the same whether we're in control or not.
It's really no skin off my nose how other people live their lives. I'm just pointing out the creeping dangers that lie ahead.
The fact that the points are arbitrary I think prevents someone from finding ways to hack or optimize it. If it counted calories, then you would look online for the best ways to burn calories. If it measured heart bpm, then you would find ways to cheat that.
I chose the fuelband because I know people who already have one. The social element is minor, but still somewhat helpful. The iOS app is really useful, and the device itself is really 'cool'. People swear by Fitbit or jawbone Up too. There are also some iOS apps that track a couple of those metrics on a budget. For my money, nike was the way to go.
Fitbit is another option as well. I've had that for about 3 months now and love it. I don't wear it when I sleep though, but for all other times. It helps me gauge days when I need to get more exercise in. http://www.fitbit.com
Taking regular time out for physical activity gives you fitness (real fitness) and focus (which helps you do your job more efficiently). These "fuel bands" are basically expensive ways to fool yourself.