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Pool Running: Do Fitness Trackers Record It?

10/23/2014

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In this riveting tale, I don a swimsuit and wear three fitness trackers to answer the question: which fitness trackers accurately capture pool running and pool walking. Read on to find out which ones win, and which ones fail!

Both pool running (aka "aqua jogging") and pool walking are forms of the same land-based exercises, but performed in a pool. The purpose? A great workout with much lower impact on the leg joints, spine, and rest of body. People whose body screams “no!” when they try to go for a jog may find salvation in pool running or pool walking — the exercise is a favorite among people recovering from injuries to the lower body joints, or with past injuries that would be exacerbated by further joint/skeletal impact.

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Striiv MyLand: Cost & Earnings for Level One Plants & Buildings

10/16/2014

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For those owners of the Striiv family of products (Striiv Play, Striiv Smart, Striiv Touch, Striiv Band, Striiv Fusion, or the iOS/Android App), you may find yourself wishing you could optimize your game strategy in MyLand. For you, I've made the following table! This has taken many steps and much MyLand earning on my part...

This table shows the Level One cost to buy, earnings, time until you reap earnings (in hours), the resulting rate of earnings in terms of earnings per hour, and the energy cost it takes to fully plant or build the item. In three future posts (which I'll link to from here), I'll present similar tables for Level Two (which is here), Level Three (here), and Striiv MyLand Level Four data (here). 

Finally, I sum it all up with thoughts about strategy: that post is here.

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