Ratty

I struggle to get my heart rate up in the pool so don't get points for a swim (other than the gym visit) With cycling on the road, I can manage 70% for 30 min, but can't get 80%. With running I can just jog on the flat road and I get over 80% For me my heart rate fluctuates a lot with different temperatures so the hotter I am the higher my heart rate will be. Need to dress warm if I want my points. I think with swimming I just don't get hot enough.

I want a breakfast voucher !!! I love the power oats.

Mine was spinning nicely, then almost stopped on one of the bigger prizers and then started spinning again and landed on a coffee / smoothie voucher. Oh well.

It works the same as the team / individual rewards. Friday is the last day to achieve it, but they allow a few days for peoples info to get in and only award it the next Wednesday so we have to wait until Wednesday to spin. I almost missed mine as I forgot my watch yesterday so didn't get my 100 points for 10000 steps. Needed 300 points today so had to go run in the howling wind. Vitality Rewards works for me :-)

. Just WOW !!! This thread has really been an emotional roller coaster. You forgot just how small and fragile babies are and I can't even comprehend holding a baby as tiny as Karmi. She is a little superstar and is absolutely gorgeous.

Team Reward only in place until end of October :-( I wonder what the people at work think when I come into the office every day with a Vida-e coffee when we have an expensive coffee machine in the office. I got 4 rewards this week: 1 individual, 1 team, 1 surprise, 1 vitality drive and still have 2 from last week So total 6 rewards to use !!!

I don't know how women deal with this. I would hate my husband to see everything I spend money on !!!

Garmins Vivofit HR + is around the 4k range. I LOVE mine. Can use it for running, cycling, open water swimming and even used it to my surf the other day

But they will no longer care if I make it or not.....

I haven't had any crashes, but have already found 3 bugs. The funniest one being that my most consecutive goals is between 23 Apr and 29 Jul - now I know that's not true as I had a baby on the 3rd June and missed 3 weeks....

Exactly, but they are doing away with the team reward so I will no longer have that incentive. The smoothie isn't enough of a reward as I actually find it harder work to use the rewards than earning them and am often giving them to friends / family.

Its a negative change for me. I don't stress too much if I let myself down by not getting the points, but having my team mates seeing my points makes me ensure that I make the goal every week (and we *** each other out if we don't make it). They should maybe have given people the option.

My heart rate is a lot higher when shaking my arm (if I am short 1000 or so steps) than when I am walking. It actually goes up to +- 140bpm's.

I was exactly like you before I decided to active the shoe booster and Vitality baby both which have numerous flaws. Everything else works fine for me.

I can't wait to get back to swimming some decent distances. Was training with a great group of master swimmers who pushed me, but had to stop swimming with them in September when I fell pregnant as I had issues with my iron and blood pressure and kept on feeling like I would pass out in the water (especially in the hot gym pool). Only 5 weeks to go and then it won't be long before I can start again :-) Looking forward to getting back in the dams for open water swims as I love the freedom. Then its just getting up the guts to get in the ocean.