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The Fitbit Inspire 2 is a versatile health and fitness tracker designed to optimize your workouts and monitor your overall well-being. With features like 24/7 heart rate tracking, a Daily Readiness Score, and a 1-year Fitbit Premium trial, it empowers you to achieve your fitness goals while keeping you connected to your digital life.
S**E
My Inspire 2 is pretty accurate - and when it is not - it is amusing
I bought my Inspire 2 a couple months ago, and I just love it!What I use it for is as a heart rate monitor and to track my sleep. It has a really long battery life - I recharge it about every 10 days (it sends me an email to remind me when it needs charging). It is also really lightweight.My normal forms of exercise are: weights, treadmill, walks (our neighborhood is quite hilly), and yoga. My fitbit does really well at tracking my heart rate on walks - and it leverages my phone's GPS for distance. It sometimes does well at tracking intensity on the treadmill, and sometimes not. How tightly you wear the watchband affects if it misses beats. An amusing aspect of the heart rate monitor is - that something about going shopping at Costco with my wife sometimes causes my heart rate to go up quite a bit. I think it is we naturally shop at different speeds. I try to fob the increase in heart rate off as the romance of shopping together, but my wife is not buying it... The fitbit will report those bouts of high heart rate as exercise. Normally, though, the heart rate is pretty accurate - I was in the hospital for a little while - and one of the things I liked to do was compare my fitbit's heart rate measure - with that of the hospital's heart rate monitor. In general they were within 1 beat of each other. I use the Active Zone Minutes feature of fitbit to help me track my 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week. Active Zone Minutes can be more or less accurate, so I don't follow them religiously, but more as a motivator to do more.As a sleep tracker my fitbit is also very useful. I am trying to get more sleep -- and having an objective source of data gives me feedback on how I am doing . I have noticed though, if you sit really still for a long period of time, such as in an emergency room, it interprets that as sleep. I suppose sitting quietly is a form of rest, so I don't feel too bad about that.I find my fitbit very motivating -- it causes me to do more exercise than I would have otherwise. I think the mind set that it promotes is very helpful. It makes a great watch. For the most part it is unobtrusive. If you already have a smart-phone, and want to improve your health, the Inspire 2 is reasonably priced for what it gives. So far I have not used the Premium features that much - so I don't have an opinion on that at this point.Cronometer (a nutrition tracking app - that can also be used to track biometrics) can be linked to my fitbit, and automatically grab some metrics - I find that very useful too. Fitbit is mostly focused on exercise - I find it easier to use Cronometer to track food, blood pressure, blood glucose, weight etc...I did also try the fitbit smart scale but it did not work well for me, so I manually enter weight data into my fitbit app.The Inspire 2 is definitely a keeper and, for me, well worth the money.
M**A
Big Motivator
Bought the Inspire2 two years ago for tracking exercise minutes and sleep time. I have had no issues arise from any of my routines, including swimming. Its exercise tracking against my heart rate seems quite accurate to me as does its sleep tracking.What was unexpected was how much the tracker motivated me to make sure to meet my daily goals. All of my stats (weight, heart rate, sleep, etc.) have improved significantly since I bought the Inspire. I also like the slim look of the watch---just wish it had an emergency button. A big thank you to those who helped develop this watch.
B**Y
My quest for good sleep
As an elderly guy of 70 years having some trouble sleeping, I decided to get an Inspire 2 Fit-bit to track my sleep. My first night sleep showed I had only slept about 4 hours starting in the early morning hours giving me a fair rating, although I would consider 4 hrs to be poor. Assuming the watch needs to calibrate for a period of time, I found that the second night seemed to record properly with about 7.5 hours sleep giving me a good score. The 3rd night was not rated as a good night and the unit recorded several chunks of sleep instead of combining them into one chunk for the night. The following night the unit again divided my sleep into 2 different chunks. I don't know why it does this. I've programmed my sleep start at 10:45pm and end time for 7:30am for 7 days a week, both in the watch and in the app. I would think that the Fit-bit sleep chart and score would be calculated based on these time settings even if the person was up during the night for a bathroom break. The sleep chart should then show this as an awake period at that particular time. When the unit divides my sleep time into 2 or more chunks, I have to edit the time assigned after the fact for that sleep period. The Fit-bit forums suggested I change the sleep sensitivity from "sensitive" to normal but I found out that the sleep sensitivity setting is already set at "normal". I was able to get the full sleep period by deleting the incomplete sleep logs for the night and entering it manually. Make sure to enter the start date first followed then by the correct AM or PM time followed then by the end date and time. The app will get confused if you mess up on this and it may then leave a simple chart with no score, however you can delete it and try again.The unit is a bit too thick to allow me to lay my arm comfortably under the pillow when sleeping but I've learned to adjust for that. Battery life is excellent as mine went a week and still had about half the charge. I've noticed my phone battery was draining significantly quicker due to the Bluetooth usage, so I prefer to have the unit gather data for a day, using a one-time per day sync in the morning. This would however, effect it's notification options from your phone. I sacrificed these functions and simply closed the phone app and turn off Bluetooth on my phone except to sync the unit.I have now used this for over a year and although I'm able to combine 2 or more chunks to get a sleep score, I sometimes have to delete recorded sleep time in the evening while watching TV or at the computer. If the unit thinks I'm asleep during those times, might it also think I'm asleep in bed when I'm really not? My particular biology might be out of the normal to result in these records. My scores are typically around 78-82 with a high score of 90 (excellent) and a low of 59 (Poor). The 59 score was below my age margin for REM sleep and deep sleep and was likely due to supplement adjustments or something out of the ordinary.Although the technology of this device is quite remarkable, don't fall into a trap thinking this device is a highly accurate display of sleep data. The anxiety created from receiving an undesirable score may actually harm your sleep. My wife would keep telling me to quit relying on it so heavily. I am now to the point that if I have forgotten to put it on for the day or evening when I go to bed, I will just shrug it off and not worry about it. This watch is quite an example of engineering but remember it's inherent limits in gathering data. It can't monitor your brain waves but makes sleep interpretations based on data from it's sensors, comparing it to a database of common readings for your age group which may or may not be close to your actual results. Just remember that it is a tool to help you and it is best used to show your personal trends from day to day. It's likely more useful in checking your movements and heart rate during the day. After all, it is called a "Fit" bit and not a "Sleep" Bit and since sleep can be related to exercise, I have begun to focus more on the exercise data from the unit.If you are trying to make adjustments to improve your sleep or any other section of the Fit-bit program, it would be nice if there was a place to enter notes for each day/night that could be reviewed as needed? (thunderstorm that night, sick, etc.) This lack of a personal daily notes section is a shortcoming in my opinion. Check my other reviews and may God help you in your quest for good sleep.
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