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GoWear fit Lifestyle and Calorie Management System | 
| Brand: BodyMedia
Category: Health and Beauty
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $179.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  158 reviews
Sales Rank: 101
Autographed: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 3.3 x 4.4 x 6
MPN: 100510
Model: 100510
UPC: 898363002003
EAN: 0898363002003
ASIN: B001HX36A0
Release Date: November 15, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Clinically proven to accurately track calories, steps, physical activity levels and sleep efficiency | | • | Helps you set healthy weight loss goals – and reach them | | • | Easy-to-use Online Activity Manager helps you monitor your progress over time | | • | Optional Display gives you minute-to-minute updates |
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Product Description
The comprehensive system that measures your daily activity to help you define and reach your individual goals. Ever wonder how many calories you re burning while walking, doing chores or just sitting still How efficiently you re sleeping. Or how active you really are over the course of a week. The clinically tested, GoWear Fit system collects this data and reports back with helpful, easy-to-digest information, including diet and exercise tips for reaching your fitness goals. It s simple. Simply attach the GoWear Fit Multi-Sensor Armband to your left arm it collects all your physical data throughout the day and week, including calories burned, physical activity, steps taken, sleep duration and sleep efficiency. It s personalized includes FREE 3-month subscription! Upload the data the armband collects to the GoWear Fit Online Activity Manager FREE 3-month subscription included (monthly subscription applies thereafter) for your personalized results and helpful suggestions. With your subscription, you ll receive your own web page that saves all the information from your armband, revealing insights into your habits, daily/weekly trends and tips for making positive changes. Discover the personalized way to reach your health and fitness goals. Order your GoWear Fit Multi-Sensor Armband from Brooksone today!
Amazon.com Product Description
Do you ever wonder how many calories you burn playing with the kids? Or how many steps you take on the way to work? GoWear fit is a clinically proven system that turns your body's everyday information into a tool to help you manage a healthy lifestyle. The GoWear fit armband measures how many calories you burn, how many steps you take, how physically active you are, and how much sleep you're getting. 
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Simply wear it during the course of your regular day, then plug it into your computer and upload your data to your personal GoWear fit Online Activity Manager. The Manager will help you establish your goals, track your progress, and give you tools to help you know how many calories you're eating, on average, per day. Want to know how you're doing right now? Purchase the optional GoWear fit display and clip it onto your shirt, pants, or bag. It'll give you minute-to-minute updates on your data--all day, every day! The GoWear fit Online Activity Manager is FREE for three months with Amazon purchase. A small subscription fee applies thereafter: $6.95 per month with a 12-month commitment, $9.95 per month for a six-month commitment, or $12.95 per month with no commitment. | | | 
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The System
The GoWear fit system is different from all other performance monitors on the market. It's not a heart-rate monitor, a GPS device, or a simple pedometer. Instead, it's a system that includes: - GoWear fit multi-sensor armband
- GoWear fit Online Activity Manager (subscription based)
- GoWear fit minute-to-minute display (optional)
click here for specifications | | | Multi-Sensor Armband
Your armband is a small computer that measures a variety of physical characteristics, including motion, steps, galvanic skin response, skin temperature, and heat flux. It's the only multi-sensor monitor that can accurately track: - Calorie burn
- Physical activity
- Steps taken
- Sleep duration
- Sleep efficiency
 | | | Your GoWear fit has multiple sensors. Those innovative sensors take five different "views" of your life:
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GoWear fit Online Activity Manager
Your Online Activity Manager is a personalized Web page that helps you see the information collected by your armband, including: - Daily caloric expenditure
- Daily caloric intake based on a nutritional tool with more than 30,000 foods to choose from
- Calorie balance
- Total physical activity (sedentary, moderate, and vigorous)
- Total steps taken
- Sleep duration and efficiency
|  The Manager is what makes it possible for you to view your data. It also features tools that allow you to set goals, record your weight and waist circumference, assess your average daily caloric intake, print reports for later review, and monitor your body's progress over time. Your monthly subscription gives you unlimited access to your data, the nutritional assessment tool, printable reports, and the ability to see your trends up to 90 days at a time. |
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Not Accurate at all! November 22, 2009
Kingfisher Music (Santa Fe, NM USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been using my armband for about a year now. I have found this product to be little more than a glorified Pedometer. The only exercise that this armband tracks is anything with hard impacts, not high impact. It does not track climbing a hill, because one walks slowly up a hill. It does not
track stationary rowing, weight lifting, any kind of strength training. It does not record lifting squatting, pushups, pullups.
I climb a hill that is about a 20% grade for three miles uphill. Even though I am sweating and huffing and puffing, all it seems to track is about half of my footsteps (I've counted and checked against the watch style monitor.) The amount of ergs or energy I'm expending is not really counted.
I also have an incline treadmill trainer. I don't get an accurate count of the exercise or energy I put out on it either.
This is, as it was explained to me by the manufacturer, because certain exercise does not have hard enough impacts (like a stepping while running).
Thus the glorified pedometer analogy. It does record running or walking fairly well.
As it is advertised on the website, it says it will track your activity all day long, even sleep. It does sleep fairly well. Don't buy this thing expecting that you will get any kind of accurate measure of any real work.
For example, one day I transferred about 600 lbs. of wood boards from a shed to my wood shop about 30 yards away, and stacked the wood on high shelves. Worthy enough work to exert some real energy. 60 steps were counted and about 50 calories burned according to the meter.
If the step is not a hard enough impact it doesn't count. This is why it does not record walking uphill. Slow or carfull walking does not excite the 3 way accelerometer
The tech support guy at the manufacturer and I had a long talk about all of these issues. They are aware of these drawbacks and he promised in about a month from when this is written, that they will be coming out with new firmware that will attempt to make the energy temperature/ moisture (sweat) sensors more accurate in their data gathering.
I discusses with him that they should really build a heart monitor into the armband and monitor system, saying that this is the data factor that they would need to really determine what kind of energy you are expending. Especially in other types of exercise that the accelerometers don't catch.
He said that they were working on this very issue and were trying to figure out the best way to achieve this.
I asked him if owners of the current system would receive a scaled down price because the current system does not deliver as promised, and his answer was that "when the new product is developed, that would more than likely be the case"
Anyway, I don't know how GoFit Wear can make any of the claims they do on the website. I do not feel that this expensive product is ready for prime time at this point. Maybe it will be when they include a heart rate monitor.
Until then, I would not consider purchasing this unless all you do is run or walk.
 Additional Purchase Required- Buyer Beware! November 20, 2009
scubagirl64 (Chicago, IL United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was shocked to learn that in order to use this product you must pay a website subscription fee otherwise the product is useless. In order to get the tracked calories from the Bodybugg/GoWear device and input your food calories, you must belong to the website. The product comes with a free 3 or 6 month subscription and after that you must pay for it. It is currently priced at $7.00 per month with an annual commitment or $13.00 per month with no long term commitment. The alternative is to purchase an wrist display for at least $80.00 which will only show you the calories you've burned but gives you no way to input your food calories. This product should come with software that you can use on your own computer to track everything. But at the very least, buyers should be informed of the additional purchase required before making a decision to purchase this item.
good device, awful customer service November 18, 2009
Pandatx (Texas USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was thrilled to get this device and I have to say it is pretty cool. However, the customer service is horrible. This is a HUGE issue since you have to purchase a subscription to use the device. Their website states that you can upgrade, change, or cancel your subscription easily. Um....yeah, no. I have been trying to do this for over a week now. They have a few different plans and I was wanting to upgrade. However there is no place on the website to actually do this. I cannot reach them by phone. They do not reply to email. I have put customer tickets in and have gotten very brief and unhelpful replies.
So, bottom line is that while I was going to upgrade I am now considering cancelling due to the poor customer service alone. That's a real shame. Bad business to have so many people unhappy with their service.
 Highly Recommended November 17, 2009
Madame Reviewer (New Brunswick, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am very pleased with this product, which I have been using constantly for 5 months.
The battery life is incredible - I wear the product nearly 24 hours, with the exception of showering. I rarely blug it in soley to charge. The battery appears to survive based on the short time it takes to upload your information to the site. Furthermore, when the battery is getting low, it will emit an unhappy beep and let you know. Also, BodyMedia recently made changes to their site, which allows you to see exactly how much battery life is remaining.
I really enjoy getting the feedback about my calorie burn throughout the day. I know which activities burn more or less calories, and can adjust my activity level accordingly in order to reach my burn level goal.
The description clearly states that you need to pay for the subscription to the software. However, the fee is low, and I believe well worth it. I enjoy uploading and looking at my calorie burn graphs. The food logging is also convenient and figures your daily calorie deficit out for you. The previous version of the software has some limitations, but they just released a new version (today actually) that has some promise.
They are receptive to customer feedback and I have only had positive experiences. I had trouble with the software because of my version of Java. Customer service was instantly available on the phone. He was very nice and walked me through the fix.
One thing that I STRONGLY RECOMMEND is that you buy the optional watch. I really find this helpful because it means that I don't have to always upload the armband to see my information. I often go days without uploading my band because I can get instant feedback on calories burned from the watch. It is a nice supplement to the system.
Overall, I would highly recommend this product for anyone who wants to be more active. Setting daily calorie burn goals will encourage you to be more active - take the stairs, park further, etc. All of these things add up - you will see this when using GoWear.
Is it a miracle product? No. You still need to eat healthy and exercise. But, it's very motivating and can be a great tool for increasing exercise, losing weight, and living a healthy life. I, personally, have found it very helpful in first weight loss, and now weight maintenance.
Great investment so far November 14, 2009
Brimley (Seattle, WA USA)
This arrived about a week ago and I have been wearing it since. The armband is comfortable and I adjusted to wearing it within a day.
My weight is down, so I am over-the-moon about that. The key to this system is the awareness and hard numbers at the end of the day. You can't hide from facts, and this thing shows you cold hard facts.
Get it. You won't be sorry.
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