My bottom is killing me. Or, more specifically, it is my habit of sitting near-motionless on it for enormous periods of time.
Sitting is terribly bad for you.
Honestly, if it wasn’t for my hand lifting a coffee mug to my mouth, vultures would have been circling.
But I’m now one of those slightly unnerving workmates who vanishes without explanation every so often.
People probably have their suspicions – the pub, a digestive issue, both – but I’m doing laps of the building on the insistence of a little red bar on the face of the most attractive fitness watch on the planet: Garmin’s Vivomove.
The Garmin has proper, ticking hands, and doesn’t immediately give away that you are wearing an activity-tracking smartwatch.
It pairs with your phone via Bluetooth, and tots up graphs of your footsteps, hours of sleep and your runs and cycling. As an electric nagging device, it has a few tricks its rivals lack.
If the accelerometer judges that I am motionless, the column on the left fills up with red – and I have to trot around (a 180m walk suffices), to lose the red bar of shame.
On the other side of the face is an LCD step gauge, which turns white as you complete your day’s ration of footsteps – it adjusts based on what you did the day before, to offer encouragement without crushing your spirit.
The Vivomove is missing a few features – it doesn’t applaud when you climb stairs, one of the finest touches on Fitbit’s Blaze – but it outlasts others such as Apple Watch by about 364.5 days – with a battery that lasts a year. – Daily Mail