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What I find interesting is this trend of people physically capable of walking using these motorized carts to get around. I can't tell you how many 20 something I saw in those things on my last trip to Vegas. It was like a road rally there were so many of them. Some would park off to the side of a restaurant and walk in effortlessly (clearly they did not have any kind of a disability).
We've been at an amusement park in Orlando the last few days and it's the same thing here. In the meantime, I'm 40 years older than some of these youngens and logged over 20k steps yesterday.
It's very disappointing to think there might not be a cart available for someone that really needs it because of these youngsters.
What is really bothering you? The features on a Fitbit watch, or that I said I was happy?
Are you one of those people who believes happiness correlates with stupidity or self-absorption?
You are overreacting to a small thing - a watch.
Doesn't matter to me, my intent is to focus on the present, and what makes me happy.
Please excuse me now...I'm going for rejuvenating walk and track my steps.
I wear an apple watch. I use it to track my steps as a guide to my activity level for that day. At the end of my day I always check my steps, and if I'm low, I may go for a run/jog. It's also quite interesting to see how your steps per day fluctuate even when you don't exercise. A particular busy day where I'm running around doing errands may get me 5,000-10,000 more steps than a leisure day - no exercise factored into both.
After all, if you're using walking partly to control weight/burn calories then just keep in mind it's not really that important what you do in any hour in a dedicated exercise program, but what you do over the entire day/week/month and devices like the fitbit/apple watch/etc allow for tracking this. You may find that you get more steps in per day doing a bunch of errands than when you do a brisk walk for 1 hour (your exercise routine) but afterwards lounge around the home for the rest of the day.
And maybe it's tracking my personal data, but I don't care. Makes for an interesting discussion though if insurance companies could get hold of that info.
Yikes. Look more into what those functions are collecting and where they are going.
It's distressing that people are not only voluntarily signing up for surveillance like this, but paying for it!
Was there anything wrong with just walking and living life without it being monitored?
Doomed.
There's nothing for them to be collecting, other than my steps, heart rate and sleep data.
Why would you be worried about anyone seeing that? The bigger question is why on earth anyone else would be interested in seeing it. The answer is: They're not.
If someone wants to monitor steps or whatever, and makes the walking more enjoyable, none of my business. Likewise if someone doesn't use a monitor. What matters is we are getting exercise and enjoying it.
E-scooters ? Ha. Have encountered some young and apparently healthy people using e-scooters on the lake trails I walk. All they are getting is fresh air. Doesn't bother me. But if I think one is going to run into me then he and the scooter will end up in the lake. And I will keep on walking.
My doctor is on the 4th floor and I prefer to walk up rather than get elevator with someone who is likely sick, long ride up.
Last time when I got to the floor I sat in the hallway trying to get my heartrate down lol for the usual BP readings and a nurse walking by asked if I was OK. No I wasn't gasping for air but it was nice she asked. Walking back down afterward was much easier.
I don't think less of people who don't/can't walk. My husband has gone thru dizzy spells, probably from RX pills, and he is generally health and definitely in shape. I have asthma and heavy exercise can cause heavy breathing. Walking is good for both of us physically and mentally.
My doctor is on the 4th floor and I prefer to walk up rather than get elevator with someone who is likely sick, long ride up.
Last time when I got to the floor I sat in the hallway trying to get my heartrate down lol for the usual BP readings and a nurse walking by asked if I was OK. No I wasn't gasping for air but it was nice she asked. Walking back down afterward was much easier.
I don't think less of people who don't/can't walk. My husband has gone thru dizzy spells, probably from RX pills, and he is generally health and definitely in shape. I have asthma and heavy exercise can cause heavy breathing. Walking is good for both of us physically and mentally.
Unless someone is physically handicapped or old enough, I don't see an excuse not to be able to functionally walk to accomplish day to day activities. If they're so cardiovascularly unfit that they cannot walk up a flight of stairs, that's all the more excuse to walk up the flight of stairs. More physically inactivity will just lead them to worse and worse health outcomes. Now if you're 100 years old, or are paralyzed, well then you have a legitimate excuse. But for the rest the excuse is becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.
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