Discovery Vitality [2019]

[abudabi]

If you want to be sick and skip a goal, do it in March as it has 5 Fridays.

 

[milan188]

I have my secret way of achieving a goal without doing anything

 

[TedLasso]

I have my secret way of achieving a goal without doing anything

Do tell

 

[ros_b]

I'm on 106 consecutive goals.

I travel a lot, and generally when I'm out sightseeing it's dead easy to get in 10,000 steps, but I love how I'm "forced" into going for at least one early-morning run to get a 300-pointer. I usually research a good area to do it, meaning I'll go along the river or find a park that I otherwise wouldn't have visited. In Moscow I used to take the metro from my hotel, get out at one stop and run to another. Got me out around some areas I wouldn't otherwise have seen.

If the weather or area is not conducive to outdoor exercising, I've downloaded some HIIT routines onto my laptop that easily get my HR up to 80% avg over 30 minutes, with no equipment, just jumping around my hotel room. Three of those per week and I'm sorted. 900 pts is piss easy if you have a HRM.

 

[StrontiumDog]

Does anyone know if Sportsmans Warehouse will accept / capture your healthygear number without having the physical card present? I've misplaced mine. There's a couple things I want, the online stuff I can just enter my number but the one item is instore so I wasn't sure how I was going to pull that one off...

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The only way for it to become less is, if you dont reach that goal for a total of 2-3 months if im not mistaken, then it starts going down by 50 points? (Somebody will have to vouch on that, im not too sure)

It's not very consistent in how and when it drops for different people. For me my last weekly target achieved was 700 points 9 November. After that I had reached 45,000 points for the year so I haven't bothered to make goal since then. By the last week of December (possibly as early as mid-December) my target dropped to 650 and now this past Saturday 5 January it has dropped to 600. I'm undecided as to whether I will keep underachieving or whether I will start trying to hit goal again.

 

[milan188]

Do tell

Would love to but I'm sure Discovery will find a way to block it and ruin it for everyone that are achieving their goals normally.

 

[Nathan1082]

Yes they can capture it from your discovery app or just the code.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Do tell

I was told by a friend he tricks heart sensor by flashing lights on the sensor or something, not 100% sure how he does it.

 

[beefymoocow]

I was told by a friend he tricks heart sensor by flashing lights on the sensor or something, not 100% sure how he does it.

I was told by a friend if you give your heart rate sensor to someone and the person runs with it. You get the points.

 

[Joka69]

Cool it was how I was thinking I would do it too.

I wish I could parkRun on a saturday :/ I start work at 08:30 most saturdays so If parkrun were at 07:00 it would be absolutely AWESOME!

But WRT being sick I mean like the flu or so, you technically aren't allowed to excercise while you are sick so it kind of defeats the purpose in my opinion, but I am preaching to the choir here.

I wouldn't say not allowed, you dont have to "run" at the parkrun to get the points, you can walk as well.

Also, try and see if you have a MyRun in your area, that is on a Sunday, and also 300 points.

 

[cfvh600]

Points for 5000 steps not counting towards vitality points only towards vitality active goals. Anyone else confirm this?

My wife got 50 points for 5000 steps on 3 Jan.

 

[Claymore]

The quickest is the 30min workout at 80% of max heart rate = 300pts.

I'm struggling with that now. My 80% is 137, and I really have to push myself to get there, and that's not fun at all. So now I do my weekly Parkrun, and then I have to do three other runs at 70% of max HR, since HR of 120 is easier to keep to.

 

[Peder]

I wouldn't say not allowed, you dont have to "run" at the parkrun to get the points, you can walk as well.

Also, try and see if you have a MyRun in your area, that is on a Sunday, and also 300 points.

Would be awesome if I could get to a myRun but it seems they are in the outlying areas of the city
But thanks anyways

 

[Peder]

I have my secret way of achieving a goal without doing anything

Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it?

I know sometimes I also need to make a plan to get all my points because there just isn't always time in the week, But I try my best not to cheat.

Yeah I know I'm contradicting myself...

 

[786bassa]

My wife got 50 points for 5000 steps on 3 Jan.

I did a ride on friday using my garmin expecting to get 300 points..Garmin sync with discovery but only 50 points was allocated for steps

i had to send discovery a screenshot of my ride in order to get the points

seems like there was some issue on friday with vitality points

 

[walterl]

Because last weeks goal was spread across the end of last year, and the beginning of this year, my points for December 29th - 31st have not been calculated.

Anyone else experiencing this? It means I didn’t hit my goal last week.

I have the same issue, my parkrun from 29 December have not been calculated. Do we have an e-mail address where we can report this?

 

[milan188]

Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it?

I know sometimes I also need to make a plan to get all my points because there just isn't always time in the week, But I try my best not to cheat.

Yeah I know I'm contradicting myself...

It does but I only use it when I need to. E.g when I'm sick. Stuck at work or on holiday.

 

[Recallza]

I have the same issue, my parkrun from 29 December have not been calculated. Do we have an e-mail address where we can report this?

Would the 300 points have changed your Vitality Status?

 

[walterl]

Would the 300 points have changed your Vitality Status?

No I already had enough points in June/July 2018 to make Gold and maintain Diamond status, but it will make me miss my Vitality Goal for the week

 

[hj2k_x]

It's quite easy when using a device to measure your heart rate.

My mindset is on the fitness and not the hoops that you have to jump through for discovery. I was exercising anyway so I might as well take advantage of the benefits that Vitality offer.

Is that 105 weeks in a row?