Originally Posted by TheSquealer

I run and train 6 days a week.

Other than that, you clearly didn't read anything i wrote and saying "i got in good shape" is not the same as saying "this device is accurate". I use heart rate monitors (Polar blue tooth) when i do cardio and sprints and often when I train. I base all my training and diet around it. I use it for both aerobic and aerobic training and its a great tool for managing aerobic capacity and aerobic threshold (distance runs, tempo runs, sprints etc).

The most expensive Fitbit is not accurate, much less, the lower models. It's not close. The very fucking purpose of a heart rate monitor is to give you an accurate heart rate. Fitbits are not even remotely close. Furthermore, when its using that inaccurate data to calculate calories burned through the day, it can't be accurate if it can't measure heart rate. Surely even someone as dense as you can grasp that simple concept. IF it can't give you an accurate number for a 30 minute jog, how in the fuck is it going to give you an accurate number (calories burned etc) for a 24hr span? It can't.

The fact that you put a thing on your arm, exercised, changed your diet etc has nothing to do with whether or not the information that thing on your arm is giving is accurate.

To the OP... go to Best Buy and just ask as I did, how many of each type get returned. You'll quickly see what the exercising public thinks about Fitbits.