Are you addicted to your personal fitness device?

Absent Husband has become attached to his personal fitness device.  Without naming brands, it’s the type usually worn on the wrist and helps you track your fitness.  They’re actually quite ugly to look at, but users don’t seem to care and wear them regardless, like a badge of honour.

Like all good personal fitness trends, users can become addicted.  For example, they have been known to check it more often than they check their emails.  They become irate when they don’t have it on and they have to walk somewhere. All those steps wasted!

They spend the day waiting for the smiley face the device gives them when they’ve reached their target.  They will often go around the block if it means getting to their goal before the day is out.  This often makes them late. And even then they take sneaky looks under the table to check it throughout.  And of course, they will then bore you with you how many steps they’ve done.  What is really scary is that to users, the validation from these devices are often more important than human ones. 

Despite this, however, sales are rocketing and it can only be a good thing.  Keeping fit should never be mocked and I must admit I am tempted to get one.  However, that would no doubt lead to a competition between Absent Husband and me.  And that could be very exhausting!