Activity Tracking
I'm a Fitbit junkie. I love the data collection and it motivates me to just move throughout the day. The Fitbit is a pedometer with an accelerometer built in which allows for very accurate tracking of every move I make. My goal is to average 15,000 steps a day and I'm always game to pick up an extra flight of stairs by skipping the elevator. I've found on my Rick Steves tours that there are lots of options to get active, but group activities won't be too taxing. I tracked all my steps and flights of stairs for this trip with my Fitbit One so you can get an idea of what it would take to participate in each activity on this tour.
I've included my activity and step graphs for each day on this blog. I didn't reset my Fitbit clock to European hours so you'll see that I tend to start taking steps around midnight which is 7am local time.
Each of the bars on the graph represents a 15 minute time increment. Fitbit color codes the intensity in each of those time increments: Red for light activity, yellow for moderate activity and green for high activity. I've added in callouts to each of the graphs so you can correlate my activities with steps and flights of stairs. In the example day on the left, we toured Bruges.
Totals for the day: 16,299 steps, 11 flights of stairs |
Planning is DONE! Let's go take this trip by starting in Belgium!
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