Discovery Vitality in 2016

I was concerned that switching over from pure cardio to the super circuit would not net me the 300 pts... but I still manage to do it. Just need to make sure I push heavy-ish weights for the the entire time between the beeps. The running easily gets the heart-rate up.

Tonight's session was an avg of 151bpm and my 80% is 144. Thanks to this program I'm vastly more fit and only about 3kg's away from my goal. (this last stretch is a biatch though :D )
 
TheJman said:
Yup, exactly the same - I can only imagine how difficult it is for proper athletes...
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For those on the performance category getting points is not difficult, they tend to be a side effect of the hours of training you are doing. While training for Ultra Trail Cape Town, I was getting over 2000 points a week. Recovery HR is less of a problem when you stop for a minute or two on a 4 hour run.
 
Anyone have any insights into the new level 6 and 7 high performance assessments?

I already get the max points for level 5 so keen to try these out next year.
 
At the gym now on cardio machines. Averaging above 70% of max HR is a walk in the park. 80% takes some effort however.
 
[-]Anyone else finding Polar workouts not syncing last few days?[/-] <edit> I forced the Polar app to sync and got the points </edit>

It would appear that the limit of 10 x 50 points awarded for 5k steps only applies to one's total Vitality score for the year, the limit doesn't seem to apply to the weekly active rewards goal.

And now miraculously I see they are giving me hundreds of points of healthy food again, no explanation given for the lack of points for September and October!
 
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abudabi said:
I was concerned that switching over from pure cardio to the super circuit would not net me the 300 pts... but I still manage to do it. Just need to make sure I push heavy-ish weights for the the entire time between the beeps. The running easily gets the heart-rate up.

Tonight's session was an avg of 151bpm and my 80% is 144. Thanks to this program I'm vastly more fit and only about 3kg's away from my goal. (this last stretch is a biatch though :D )
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Geezus, how old are you? My 80% is 155 bpm
 
Have two slots open in my Vitality Active group if anyone wants to pm me their email address. Dropping some poor performers
 
So yesterday I needed 350 points to get diamond.. today it shoots up to 850. This is the 3rd time I see the points adjust upward for no reason

I think next year I will capture point events weekly a nail them

Anyone else notice points deviate every so often?
 
krycor said:
So yesterday I needed 350 points to get diamond.. today it shoots up to 850. This is the 3rd time I see the points adjust upward for no reason

I think next year I will capture point events weekly a nail them

Anyone else notice points deviate every so often?
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A follow up.. points awarded for the last month seem exactly as expected so it seems like points from the distant past was 'adjusted' to zero which is insane.

I have a few print outs of the table points throughout the year and busy trying to spot what's been removed.
 
^^ That is a bit worrying. I made diamond again by a few hundred points last week. Could maybe add another 500 points to that buffer over the next week.
 
Well I planned this three weeks ago and we worked according to plan ie this last week (Friday night) we needed 250 points.. wake up Saturday morning app crashes.. restart, check and it's 850 (what it was tuesday, we did 3x Gym + 1x hr@80% /2 people, 2 days 600 pts ironically).

Now 850 is easily obtainable going to gym thrice for me.. but that's the point when it might change next Friday? I sent a snotty email asking for an audit but I know they will do bugger all and claim some other issue.. FYI, from captures of points 1.5 months back I know there is trimming of fitness points, just not sure what as this weeks points appear present. Will do a spreadsheet and see if all 0 rated points have pairs.

Also this is not the 1st year I've seen this happen and usually you tend to have a 2-5k point recalc which has happen to me about 2x out of the 5yr I've actively been monitoring one year it adjusted under gold after 1st week in Jan but I had a complaint open with pics so it bumped up a few days later. Discovery Vitality points are really flakey so yah as said before last year I'm on this tread mill.

@StrontiumDog I suggest taking pics of it as they tend to adjust the system a LOT the last 2 weeks as complaints roll in. I usually cruise to finish in October but with the constant changes and having to get 90k I took a bit long. The one year I noticed recalc I finished points 2nd last week.. the other time I was over by 8k which dropped to 4K post adjustment.
 
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