Activity Meter

I've been tracking my steps with Personal Trainer: Walking since it came out and I really like the performance of these little Activity Meters. The game is lame, just to get that out of the way, but these things are durable. That is, unless you're my wife and you accidentally leave it clipped to your pants (twice!) when washing your clothes. That kills them. After she washed her second Activity Meter I decided to continue the game alone, tracking my steps and trying to unlock all the pictures by myself. Takes much longer but I'm almost there finally.

It's a real simple device. Just clip it to your pants or put it in your pocket and it tracks your steps each day. It will hold total daily steps for up to a month and detailed hourly steps each day for a week. All I really care about is total steps so I turn the game on once a month to dump all my steps on the game. The way you do that is by pressing the button on the Activity Meter while pointing it at the card in your game and the info is transferred. Pretty simple process. My Activity Meter has been dropped, squished, kicked, scraped, etc. but still works like a charm. Also, there is a light on the device that will flash red with each step. Once you reach your step goal it will flash green with each step. Kind of a small victory each day when I look down and see it flash green.

Great device, poor game.

I wanted to pick this up since being a janitor I walk around a lot. I wont now.

Yeah, the game itself is just a bunch of needless charts. Some fun ways to interact with you step counts, but you soon realize it isn't that much. I thought they would have found a better way to implement this idea better.