Exercise Tracking Devices
INTRODUCTION There are three kinds of adopters to modern exercise gadgets--early adopters, non-adopters and slacker adopters. One of the most popular exercise gadgets during my long lifetime, besides the 50's rollerskates that tightened with a key, first appeared around 2007. That would be the Fitbit. This device is a big hit--the company has sold over 100 million devices to more than 28 million people. I was a non-adopter, until very recently. I was all for anything that got people moving, but I personally didn't recognize the value of a device for motivating or tracking activity. Being into exercise, fitness and varied endurance forms of athletic competitions, I poo pooed, scoffed at and dismissed tracking movements as a distraction and a nuisance. I exercised almost daily for eight-plus decades and can't recall wishing I had an activity tracker. AN EPIPHANY However, after discovering that my health insurance company would provide a $160 tracking device for free, I deci