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GoWear fit Display Device | 
| Brand: BodyMedia
Category: Health and Beauty
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $79.99
as of 11/27/2009 07:10 CST details
You Save: $20.00 (20%)
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 217
Autographed: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 3.3 x 4.4 x 6
MPN: 100515
Model: 100515
UPC: 898363002010
EAN: 0898363002010
ASIN: B001HX36AA
Release Date: November 15, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Minute-to-minute updates on how many calories you're burning | | • | Includes different modes that allow you to view your results for today and yesterday | | • | Can be worn as a watch, or clipped to your shirt, pants or bag | | • | Help motivate you to take the stairs, park your car in the furthest spot etc |
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Product Description
For use with the GoWear Fit Multi-Sensor Armband (sold separately). 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. The watch-style display provides minute-to-minutes updates on your physical activity to help keep you in sync with your daily fitness goals. The GoWear Fit Display, in a convenient watch style design, provides real-time data, including calories burned and physical activity. Easy to wear and use. The GoWear Fit Display can be worn on your wrist, or clipped to your shirt, bag or belt. An integral part of the GoWear Fit system. For a completely personalized fitness program, purchase the GoWear Fit Armband (sold separately). Upload the data the armband collects to the GoWear Fit Online Activity Manager (monthly subscription required) 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 Display from Brookstone today!
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 34
 almost like the display better than the armband.. October 27, 2009
A. Whitacre (Playa Vista CA)
well... not really. But I definitely use the display as a motivator when I exercise. I've set targets for both "vigorous" and "moderate" exercise and only the display lets me know how what I'm doing is counted -- sometimes the "moderate" seems as tiring as the "vigorous". I would hate to put in an hour at the gym and find out only after I downloaded the armband that I hadn't met an exercise goal for the day.
I agree that it looks clunky and I have a watch I like better, so I usually just put the display in my pocket, on the waistband of my gym shorts, or on the table next to my exercise bike.
as for the cost: not expensive for a piece of calibrated equipment. its more than a pedometer, cheaper than a good heart rate monitor. the Armband is a great piece of equipment, but the display allows you to monitor yourself during the day to progress toward your workout goals.
Life Changing Device - Best Investment Ever! October 22, 2009
K. DeWeese (Bay Area, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I decided a long time ago it was time to lose weight for the 2nd time in my life. The first time I lost weight, I lost 70 pounds in 4 months while popping Ephedra pills. I gained ALL of the weight back, plus 20 extra pounds about 4 years later. What I didn't realize was, in order to maintain my weight, I needed to still watch what I was eating and how much I was exercising. Ephedra gave me a false sense of security since I thought that if I gained weight, I could just take the pills again.. WRONG! Not only were the pills taking a toll on my body, they were expensive and finally they were banned from the US.
Here I am, 10 years after my first big weight loss, and I am trying to lose 70 pounds once again. Without pills and crazy shakes, without starvation or fad "no carb - high fat" diets, I am doing this my own way, and the way I can live with for the rest of my life.
I purchased the GoWearFit armband and monitor together, I thought that the price was a bit high, but now that I am using these gadgets, I see that they are well worth it. It was pretty easy to use, but I am web and gadget savvy and I work on a computer all day, so I was able to hook and sync everything up pretty easily. You need to make sure you charge the armband first via the USB cord into your computer before you can do anything. It takes about three hours to charge! Read your booklets and get to know your device. RTFM!
I went to the [...] website and signed up for an account. I used the special code that came with my device to sign up for the membership, I think I got three free months with the purchase of the product. Please note that I use a PC and I find that the website ONLY works with Firefox. I tried to use the Activity Manager in Internet Explorer and it wouldn't load.
Once I logged into the Activity Manager, I filled in all of my info (weight, age, height, etc.) and synced up my armband to the monitor. It was a little tricky at first try, but I held the button on my sensor for a few seconds and the "happy beeps" followed, meaning it was synced up.
I LOVE knowing my sleep patterns because now I am seeing that I wake up several times during the night. I also see that what the treadmill says as calories burned is actually LOWER than what I am actually burning (and vice versa on other machines) so I am extremely pleased to finally get an accurate count of calories burned during my workouts. The monitor lets me know when I've reached my goals such as steps taken, calories burned and I can also set reminders that help me remember to take my medication everyday.
As far as logging in your calories for three days to get an average count, please, oh please, do be honest with yourself. I ate good for the first two days, but bad on one of the days (didn't plan that!) so I feel like my goal is pretty reasonable, and with hard work everyday, I do reach my goal. The only adjustments I've made was cutting down bad snacks and eating fruit instead, no bread during dinner time, I don't cut my portion size down, but what I do is give myself half of what I'd usually eat and fill the rest in with cooked cabbage as a filler. For instance, I made whole wheat penne pasta noodles last night with marinara sauce, and ground beef, served myself half of the portion I would normally eat and put cabbage and zucchini mixed in with the noodles. My husband hates vegetables so I couldn't make any for him, but he's very thin, so it's okay! For people trying to lose weight who do not like vegetables, I gotta say, you really need to try to eat them unless your doctor says you are allergic, you really have no excuse. I pan fry my cabbage in "I can't believe it's not butter" spray and it turns out fantastic. You can shake a bit of Mrs. Dash seasonings in that and make it zesty or spicy. I swear, it's good.
Everyone I show this product to is very impressed and wants one for themselves. When I was walking to my friend's car last night after watching movies, my monitor beeped to let me know that I reached my goal of burning 2913 calories for the day. I was so happy! This is an excellent motivation tool! If I come home from work and notice I need to burn 400 more calories before midnight, I start dancing in my living room or go out for a brisk walk around the neighborhood to make sure I get closer to my goal.
 display discrepancy October 13, 2009
Jana M. Weber (Wyoming)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have noticed that calories per hour on the display does not jive with the calories on the graph on the computer. It is almost always considerably lower. For example, it will show 4-6 calories per hour on the graph where the display never indicated anything over 3.0. This is disappointing.
Great device (whole system)...am losing weight September 15, 2009
Evansmommy
I've owned this for a month and am very happy with it. The display works great and is not unweildy. I haven't used the clip on...I just use it on the watch band.
The Go Wear Fit armband/display appears to be fairly accurate (that is, I'm losing somewhat close to what I should be based on my daily calorie deficit). I've lost 5 pounds so far...which is about what I was aiming for. (Could not exercise last week for the first time and I gained a pound even though I maintained a daily calore deficit. Grr.)
I was pleased with how simple the GoWearFit is to use. I didn't think I use the meal logging/calorie counting part of the program, but it is so fast and easy, I have been using it faithfully.
I wear the display constantly and use the "trip" feature to guage the intensity of my workouts. I find this very helpful. I also find that when I keep an eye on the calories burned per minute using the trip feature, I can maximize my calorie burning efficiency (for instance, turns out that if I skip my cool down and walk the track instead, I burn calories at a much higher rate than if I just walk the track at the same pace after I've been just sitting around). I am so glad I got this watch.
problem resolved quickly and professionally September 8, 2009
sweetpea (Richmond, VA)
I have this product for myself and was ordering this one for my daughter. The product itself I highly recommend. The one I ordered and received from amazon was defective. When I called amazon to report the problem, I was very impressed with how my issue was immediatly resolved and I had a new item in 2 days. I highly recommend the display device and ordering from amazon!!
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