Discovery Vitality in 2016

[jman]

All codes sent. Tx

Was obviously too late darn it

 

[abudabi]

Yep.. Went to twt, robdarussian, sdog and xcaliber

 

[StrontiumDog]

true story. nevertheless, you can still pause a workout in the polar app

Thanks, will try it

Did you guys notice how you are discussing capturing your heart rate in order to make Discovery happy and not as usable data for your own purposes.

True, but why would one want to use HR data unless one was a pretty serious athlete? I only bought a HRM to get enough points so as to not have to pay for visiting the bio for a fitness test. If I had known they would move the goal posts so drastically I would not have bothered.

 

[VBot]

The problem I have with Discovery and their Social Media team is that they still seem to be oblivious to the fact that asking the 'normal Joes' to exercise at 80% heart-rate for a mere 300 points is actually dangerous.

A lot of these people are unfit and they could push too hard. Sure you should know your limits and it's not worth it for a smoothy, but for a medical aid to encourage it, is reckless.

 

[krycor]

So I noticed today that I received 0 for timed event as HR info was marked as the only activity (one activity a day).. That's messed up, logging issue.

Edit:


The fascinating thing i saw was that it added 3k points.. no wonder people were easily getting their goals.. HR points were over powered.. gimping timed events though i think was stupid. Anyway.. knowing this i'm planning on cycling 4-5x 40km in the next week or two (yay i have leave) and getting my 12k or 15k extra vitality points for the year haha (i'm fit but this will be challenge).

Will update you guys on this

 

[Leader]

Discovery just a rip off

 

[StrontiumDog]

Hahah... Ratings now at 2.4

Looks like people are changing their 5s to 1s

So i put into a spreedsheet like someone suggested. Basically the 5's have 5 times the weight that the 1's have, so it's not a true reflection of what the average person voted. It will likely never go below 2 stars.

There are 300 1's and only 131 5's.
Out of 515~ total ratings, the majority are now 1's.

What would be a more accurate way to calculate the average person's rating?

 

[crashy]

Seems like Vitality has revised the HR zone intensities that apply to moderate and vigorous exercise.
Moved from 70% and 80% back down to 60% and 70% respectively.

see table.

Wow, does seem they have reverted (unless that's some old chart). Will be better to do the 60-70% and higher than 70% for vig training.

 

[cerebus]

Wow, does seem they have reverted (unless that's some old chart). Will be better to do the 60-70% and higher than 70% for vig training.

I sincerely hope this is true.

 

[StrontiumDog]

Wow, does seem they have reverted (unless that's some old chart). Will be better to do the 60-70% and higher than 70% for vig training.

Looks like the old chart. What page did you find that link at?

 

[crashy]

Looks like the old chart. What page did you find that link at?

Someone pasted it in this thread somewhere...

 

[crashy]

Someone pasted it in this thread somewhere...

My bad, seems it's still high - https://www.discovery.co.za/discove.../vitality/newsletter/var_heart_rate_table.jpg

 

[StrontiumDog]

Was obviously too late darn it

You got PM.

In case you don't claim it by 3pm today, next person to reply and quote me here will get it after you.

 

[jman]

You got PM.

In case you don't claim it by 3pm today, next person to reply and quote me here will get it after you.

Replied

 

[robdarussian]

So i put into a spreedsheet like someone suggested. Basically the 5's have 5 times the weight that the 1's have, so it's not a true reflection of what the average person voted. It will likely never go below 2 stars.

There are 300 1's and only 131 5's.
Out of 515~ total ratings, the majority are now 1's.

What would be a more accurate way to calculate the average person's rating?

Yup...for every 5-star rating, there needs to be 3 x 1-star ratings to bring the 5-star down to 2.
So 393 1-star ratings will take care of the 131 5's.

If you/we want it lower than 2, we obviously need more than a 3:1 ratio.

I also saw this, which shouldn't really affect anything, but you never know, someone might rate the page and not share the review publicly: https://www.facebook.com/help/500762053364226

 

[element1]

My bad, seems it's still high - https://www.discovery.co.za/discove.../vitality/newsletter/var_heart_rate_table.jpg

IMO, working out at 80% of your MHR for 30 minutes should be worth at least 1000 points... :twisted:

 

[StrontiumDog]

IMO, working out at 80% of your MHR for 30 minutes should be worth at least 1000 points... :twisted:

Doing pure cardio, running or cycling I think might be OK but difficult. Doing it with free weights, compound lifts, etc... I think would be dangerous for the sub-elite athletes out there.

 

[StrontiumDog]

IMO, working out at 80% of your MHR for 30 minutes should be worth at least 1000 points... :twisted:

Doing pure cardio, running or cycling I think might be OK but difficult. Doing it with free weights, compound lifts, etc... I think would be dangerous for the sub-elite athletes out there.

 

[krycor]

Doing pure cardio, running or cycling I think might be OK but difficult. Doing it with free weights, compound lifts, etc... I think would be dangerous for the sub-elite athletes out there.

Do 10-15 minutes cardio prior to weights. It really makes it easy to maintain that HR which is why I had no issues as I always did this.

 

[nadeem_k]

Any news for tomtom devices?