Discovery Vitality in 2016

[Xino_sam]

Am I right to say that max amount of points you can get for steps are 100, and that is >10 000 steps?
Darn I made my 300 points everyday with >13 000 steps

 

[abudabi]

Yep... *poof*

It's gone.

 

[element1]

300 points for 30-89 minutes of vigorous HR... 89?? It should be more like 30-59.

Anyways, it is to be expected that they would alter their targets to align with their economic models.. Active rewards must've been getting costly for them.

 

[abudabi]

Ja but what irks me is that they say no.. "It's to combat the cheaters".... which in my mind is a copout.

Go after them but don't punish everyone.

 

[Tinuva]

Yeah I really enjoyed getting 600 points for 61minutes vigorous HRM at 70%.
These new rules will make it a new kind of challenge I dont like.

 

[Tinuva]

Yeah I really enjoyed getting 600 points for 61minutes vigorous HRM at 70%.
These new rules will make it a new kind of challenge I dont like.

 

[gifs]

Ja but what irks me is that they say no.. "It's to combat the cheaters".... which in my mind is a copout.

Go after them but don't punish everyone.

Removing support for reputable devices like Suunto just shows that it is not about combating cheaters.

 

[abudabi]

From here : https://www.discovery.co.za/portal/individual/vitality-news-fitness-devices

Members currently using Suunto and TomTom devices linked through MapMyFitness – for either activity tracking or heart rate tracking - will continue to earn Vitality points, as these device companies are currently working on an alternative solution to integrate with us directly and we hope to have feedback from them in the coming months. No new device linking will be possible for future users of these devices from 18 March 2016.

 

[StrontiumDog]

Wow, if I was to aim for 300 points I'd probably kill myself. It was aiming for an average above 70% of max that had me feeling faint, with the odd heart palpitation, hence I haven't been to gym in 3 weeks now.

Was almost pointless buying the Polar H7 and Loop now :/

 

[km2]

Hmm so I'm getting the feeling from this that even though Garmin is a supported HR platform, it will only support "native" Garmin devices (i.e. the problem with other platforms was that they "do not distinguish between third party data or self-reported data"). Without being able to use a third-paty app like Wahoo Fitness this is really going to be difficult to make work. And they STILL can't sync from Fitbit HR devices.

 

[Napalm2880]

Members currently using Suunto and TomTom devices linked through MapMyFitness – for either activity tracking or heart rate tracking - will continue to earn Vitality points, as these device companies are currently working on an alternative solution to integrate with us directly and we hope to have feedback from them in the coming months. No new device linking will be possible for future users of these devices from 18 March 2016.

This is really ridiculous :wtf:

 

[abudabi]

Hmm so I'm getting the feeling from this that even though Garmin is a supported HR platform, it will only support "native" Garmin devices (i.e. the problem with other platforms was that they "do not distinguish between third party data or self-reported data"). Without being able to use a third-paty app like Wahoo Fitness this is really going to be difficult to make work. And they STILL can't sync from Fitbit HR devices.

This pees me off cause i've just spent money to jump through their hoops.. And now i wont be able to t use it.


Granted not thousands... But i hate spending money on something and then not using it.

 

[Blu82]

The new rules also removed swimming data from swim trackers like the Garmin swim which means I just lost 600 points a week. Devices that accurately capture heart rate data during a swim are on the expensive side at the moment. This is now the part where a decent Fitness device instead of the Apple Watch would have been a good idea.

 

[twr]

This is ridiculous, what was so inaccurate with strava?

 

[cYcLIc]

As someone who averages around 6000 points a week, I must say that these changes are incredibly unfair. Limiting moderate exercise to a max of 300 and upping it to the old vigorous is a load of BS.

 

[Alacrity]

Joh... so they bumped moderate up to "more than 70% of max HR" and vigorous to "more than 80% of max HR". Never mind about the time extensions.

The program was supposed to improve our health but to keep getting 1200 points on the new system is going to be bad for our hearts! It definitely can't be good to have it at >80% for that long every day!

So soon they will have to pay more for all the heart related issues!

 

[Tinuva]

Well everywhere I read online, moderate starts at 50% to at most 75%. Vigorous at most 75-85%. 80-90% is a bit over the top if you ask me.

 

[Superm00]

For me to achieve 80% average heart rate I need to be at around 160bpm for 30 mins just to get 300 points. That is NOT healthy at all. And I just bought the muvit heart rate monitor to use with runkeeper, haven't even received it yet but now have to return it because it's useless.

 

[km2]

I presume all these changes have happened due to the rollout of the Apple Watch promotion to Discovery's US market that is being reported on today, and that's prompted them to go super conservative with the points and devices.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/share-fitness-data-apple-watch-cash-37332066

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/03/02/share-your-fitness-data-for-apple-watch-or-cash.html

 

[hellfire]

For me to achieve 80% average heart rate I need to be at around 160bpm for 30 mins just to get 300 points. That is NOT healthy at all. And I just bought the muvit heart rate monitor to use with runkeeper, haven't even received it yet but now have to return it because it's useless.

I'd like to see how they react to a refund request on hardware bought based on rules which keep changing