My trainer told me about it and I’m going to an info meeting in a few days.  It will probably be expensive, but here’s what I know so far.  You wear this little sensor thing on your arm like an iPod.  It figures out your exertion and calorie use through skin temp, motion, heart rate, and the like.  It can save 2 weeks’ data I think, but you’re supposed to download off it to your computer and web.  Your trainer can even check out your stats from his/her station.  The idea is that you can figure out your metabolic rate, see actual burns and deficits in detailed graphs and figure out how to eat and/or train.

Anybody know anything else about it or have experience?  Thanks in advance.
Suzanne

Hi Suzzane..

I’ve been waiting to see if anyone knows about this, but since they havn’t I’ll weigh in…

sorry, I’m not familiar with the system, but I am an advocate of monitoring (you can’t measure what you don’t monitor.....a saying at work)......

keep us informed how your doing if you go through with it sounds cool

My friend’s heart rate monitor tracks each workout....then he plugs it in his computer (actually its bluetooth, so all he does is turn on the program on his computer, and it downloads it to the program.

It tells him how long he went...what is heartrate was the whole time....what his cadence was (this one is set up for biking), the elevation he went, the miles, how long he was in his’target’ heartrate etc......its pretty cool, with graphs and all

Let us know what you foung out (and how expensive....although probably worth it)

I went to the Body Bugg seminar last night and it seems really cool; measures 5 things about your body while you’re wearing it: motion, skin temp, skin galvanization, ?? 

Download your data to the web, log your calories, and you get graphs of your calorie burns and your deficit/surplus of calories. 

The best thing about it is you see how many calories you can burn in your daily life OUTSIDE the gym and of course, cut the guess work out of your exercise/food program to find out why you’re not losing or gaining.  I think it would help with the “portion size denial” we all slip into because if you log a deficit of calories but gain in weight or body fat, you know something’s amiss. 

Downside:  very expensive - $399, which includes 2 training sessions and 3 months of the Apex web subscription. 

Seems like a great tool, but I don’t know if I can buy that much of a gadget after having bought my PocketPC Phone just a few months ago.  We’ll see.

I don’t want to sound like a downer, but I don’t see the real point in this. When it comes to me, all the systems we use to loos weight and get in shape have a purpose, to either weigh less, or be at a certain health and fitness level. I guess my question is, what goal can you reach by having this senor?  It seems silly almost to track everything to such a degree when most of life is not very straight cut. I think no matter what system you use, things are not going to be perfect and you’ll be getting either good or bad results with or without some device which tells you that you should be loosing weight. Just because you have a device that tells you all these things about your body doesn’t mean that it gets you into shape or gets you eating better. It seems like a very expensive scale to me, and I only use my scale once a day so, to each their own. If it is the right thing for you, then great, go with it and have a blast; but I really don’t think its practical to track everything when it’s best to learn how to deal with issues in life and use a system which can work on paper.

Hi Skylar,

I have tracked my food for over a year, and it seems to help me keep track....and notice when certain foods cause me to feel bad, or gain etc....

I also have tracked my exercise, weight every day, and I can monitor what exercise really helped me feel fit, etc....

Like you said, to each their own, because I know some people that have no problem at all, and never track anything, and they do great!  This just works for me, and I found that whatever tools you need, for your own personal journey, that helps you achieve your goals, are all good.

I think it would be a great eye-opener to someone who thinks they’re doing everything right, but are gaining or maintaining. It would also be a good alternative to gastric bypass, at least to try this first.

But for those of us who are doing well, it seems a bit of a waste. However, anything that gets you on the right path and makes it easier for you to be healthy is worth it. I’ve spent at least that much over the years on diet gimmicks that measured nothing, and made me sick.

I’ll stick to my food journal.

Bree