Stairs

A few weekends ago, I was challenged by a friend to do more steps than him. Of course, I won ;-) But I noticed he was wearing his activity tracker on his wrist while I was wearing mine on my waist. As I noticed several times before, when I had an activity tracker on my wrist, these devices tend to capture some movements even if you don’t actually walk (while typing energetically on the computer or while driving for instance). So I took the opportunity of a small trip to wear 2 activity trackers, one Fitbit One on my waist and one Fitbit Charge HR on my wrist.

I continue to explore data about my physical activity in 2013 ( see part 1). We moved from an apartment (on the third floor of a building) to a house (with two floors) on July 1st, 2013. I was wondering if the change would have an impact on the number of floors I climbed: I now have to climb to reach bedrooms and go down to go in the living room. A standard house. ...