Archive for the 'Nike Fuel' Category

GOT (‘Til It’s Gone): Gamification Of Things

« 29 November 2022 | 6:00 | Apple Watch, Fitness/Training/Nutrition, Nike Fuel | No Comments »

You Janet Jackson fans will recognize what I did there in the post title (wink). Greetings all. We humans have been presented with methodologies and processes aimed at motivating us to to things for a reward, for decades. Oxford’s Dictionary defines gamification as : gam·i·fi·ca·tion/ˌɡāmifəˈkāSHən/ noun Think of the many times you’ve been presented with […]



POTD – 19/365

« 19 January 2019 | 22:42 | Nike Fuel, Photography, Technology | No Comments »

Life is a sport, make it count. Happy 7th birthday to the NikeFuel Band. I won’t wax poetically about this fitness tracker because I’ve provided a number of previous blog posts I’ve done that go into depth about my relationship with it. Breaking with the one-photo-a-day approach, I’ve included a few of my favorite video […]



POTD – 10/365

« 10 January 2019 | 21:18 | Daily Musings, Fitness/Training/Nutrition, Nike Fuel, Photography | 1 Comment »

Playing the numbers… Greetings good people. I’ve never purchased a lottery ticket, but definitely been “living by the numbers” for almost ten years. I have been working out in the gym, solely (aside from those varied hiatuses) with pen and pad, pretty much regularly after college. The Nike+ iPod Fitness tracking system made me start […]



Farewell, FuelBand….it’s been a sheer pleasure.

« 1 September 2018 | 1:12 | Apple Watch, Daily Musings, Fitness/Training/Nutrition, Nike Fuel, Technology | 3 Comments »

Greetings all, It’s Friday, 10:31PM EST to be exact, and I’m glad that the start of a long(er) weekend is here. This post is about the end of a journey, a journey that began with the use of what became a fitness tracking device I became very fond of. While I won’t rehash all my […]



Calories to NikeFuel Points – An Experiment

« 29 November 2017 | 0:35 | Apple, Apple Watch, Fitness/Training/Nutrition, Nike Fuel | No Comments »

Greetings readers, In my last (longgg) post, I discussed why I have, in 2017, begun using the NikeFuel Band. In all the research I’ve done, I wanted to determine (via some crude experiments), what many have tried before – How many calories burned make up 1 NikeFuel point? As a recap, the Nike website says […]



Why the Nike FuelBand SE in 2017 – “Band on the run”

« 24 August 2017 | 15:30 | Apple, Apple Watch, Fitness/Training/Nutrition, Nike Fuel | 24 Comments »

So, I’ve found the Apple Watch fitness capabilities a welcome and useful way to track my general fitness activities AND found the entire process it uses to motivate me, especially in the area of consistency. The apps that I use integrate perfectly with the Health app, I’ve had no issue with sharing my Activity data […]