bertusras Posted February 19, 2018 Posted February 19, 2018 Thanks, mainly indoor cycling (spinning), some mountain biking over weekends and a little bit of jogging. If she carries her phone with her during all of the above, I'd just go for the strap as that's the cheapest solution. Sniffie 1
Frosty Posted February 19, 2018 Posted February 19, 2018 (edited) Hi all. Looking for recommendations for a vitality friendly heart rate monitor for my wife. Her polar FT 60 gave up the ghost after some years of service. We both had our share of troubles with signal quality of the polar chest belts and units. Must preferably be something not so big and masculine looking. (She is quite small and dainty! ❤️) Looks like Garmin and vitality are having compatibility issues?Garmin and Vitality do have compatibility issues, but they do seem to get resolved. Something not so big, and masculine looking... consider the Forerunner series. There are small units that don't cost an arm/leg, eg. FR30 or 35. The benefit of the 30 is that it has wrist-based HR which is perfect for running/gym/day2day - you'll thank me later. Add a strap when MTBing and it will give you everything you need. A Fenix is a guy's watch - big and bulky. edit: you can ditch the need to carry a phone with a HR belt.https://explore.garmin.com/en-ZA/forerunner/ Edited February 19, 2018 by Frosty shaper, Sniffie and Dexter-morgan 3
Dexter-morgan Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Garmin and Vitality do have compatibility issues, but they do seem to get resolved. Something not so big, and masculine looking... consider the Forerunner series. There are small units that don't cost an arm/leg, eg. FR30 or 35. The benefit of the 30 is that it has wrist-based HR which is perfect for running/gym/day2day - you'll thank me later. Add a strap when MTBing and it will give you everything you need. A Fenix is a guy's watch - big and bulky. edit: you can ditch the need to carry a phone with a HR belt.https://explore.garmin.com/en-ZA/forerunner/ with Unboxed deals from Garmin you can get the FR25 with strap for R1899 and its a GPS/activity tracker with Bluetooth, Pink and Purple available. Frosty 1
shaper Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Another tough year getting to gold !! ..... time to sit back and enjoy the benefits and smoothies Blokman, Dexter-morgan, Frosty and 6 others 9
Sniffie Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Another tough year getting to gold !! ..... time to sit back and enjoy the benefits and smoothies Bliksem! Well done. Need 120k points to reach gold. Still another 70k to go. Will have to talk to wife and adult son to start pulling their weight! Vetplant 1
mecheng89 Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Another tough year getting to gold !! ..... time to sit back and enjoy the benefits and smoothies NO MAN, I'm just shy of 11k. What on earth did you do? Everything?
fanievb Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Another tough year getting to gold !! ..... time to sit back and enjoy the benefits and smoothies selective screenshotting I see why you hiding your vitality age?? we still need 52680 to keep diamond
shaper Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 selective screenshotting I see why you hiding your vitality age?? we still need 52680 to keep diamondDoes Vitality age make a difference?... if that interested age is 51
Vetplant Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 NO MAN, I'm just shy of 11k. What on earth did you do? Everything? Prediction:-Vitality Age Questionaire - Free 2500 points-Health Check - Free Up to 20 000 points- HIV test - Free 5000 points- Fitness tes - R400, (claim back from savings) 7500 points- 33 workouts @ 300 pionts, thus 4 a week ; 10 000 points Done, assuming no points for events, which would make it even quicker than the 300 points per workout. Very doable
mecheng89 Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Vitality is volkak, tried all weekend to link a garmin device for the gf and it just says error...Then I look this morning and it logged sundays run and gave me points but didn't give me anything for saturdays run at all. In all honesty am thinking of moving away from discovery, they are just so full of ****. Reading above they are now accusing people of falsley claiming points. Previously have had the issue where you run 100 miles and get same points as for a 42km marathon. They then said they don't want to give points for excessively long races, but then they give extra points for doing an ironman>For which the reply was they want to reward the people for training so much- Like we didn't train for 100 mile trail runs. Common logic would state that they have no effing clue and sit in the tower trying to cover themselves and not lose out too much to the people who actually are fit, whilst praying on the couch slobs and failing new years resolutionists each year...Boet, that's some SERIOUS running. But we work in metric here . I understand their case. 9000 points is the absolute max, because each individual event is on the extreme "side of the distance scale. In all seriousness, We all know that Vitality is actually targeting the couch potato to get more active, not to get the already active even more active. I'm sorry to break it to you, but they know exactly what they are doing.
shaper Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Prediction:-Vitality Age Questionaire - Free 2500 points-Health Check - Free Up to 20 000 points- HIV test - Free 5000 points- Fitness tes - R400, (claim back from savings) 7500 points- 33 workouts @ 300 pionts, thus 4 a week ; 10 000 points Done, assuming no points for events, which would make it even quicker than the 300 points per workout. Very doablePretty much as above, with 3000 points for IM70.3 EL and about 4 x 21km road running races at 1500 points each. I know of 2 friends who hit gold on the 06 February!! Seems I was slacking Vetplant 1
jcza Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Another tough year getting to gold !! ..... time to sit back and enjoy the benefits and smoothies Show off!! shaper 1
The Ouzo Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Stuck on Blue status crew checking in. must go and get my assessment done.
shaper Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Show off!! More to show how easy it is... If I can do it before the end of Feb... then there no reason for people not to do it before the end of the year !! Vetplant and Neverfit 2
thisismyotherbike Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Another tough year getting to gold !! ..... time to sit back and enjoy the benefits and smoothies More to show how easy it is... If I can do it before the end of Feb... then there no reason for people not to do it before the end of the year !! Are we doing the humblebrag thing? Try getting everyone off their backsides when you have a dependent or two Anyway, here's mine. It does take doing all the tests and pitching for some races. shaper 1
JCA12 Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Dam that's impressive points guys. On 27 000 points now. Still have a way before Gold
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