Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Runtastic through their partnership with Fit Approach. I was not compensated monetarily, but was provided the Runtastic Orbit for review. As always, all opinions are my own.
What is the Orbit?
The Orbit is a 24-hour wearable that provides you with reliable, round-the-clock tracking to help you get a better sense of your daily movements, personal habits and untapped potential.
Great Features
- Track your Steps & Distance daily
- Monitor Sleep Duration & Cycles each night
- Keep an eye on Calories Burned
- Set & Reach Goals
- View Runtastic app stats using Orbit Connect
- Go for a swim with your Waterproof Orbit
I recently had a running assessment done and one of the things that we talked about was the amount of time I sit at work. I thought I was at least 40/60 with walking and sitting at my desk or in meetings. As it turns out, with one week of wearing the Orbit to work, I sit at my desk or in meetings a whole lot more than I walk. The impact of more sitting than not throughout the day was surprising and even more surprising was the impact on running form and alignment.
A sample of what the Runtastic Orbit can do:
STEPS: You can set a daily “step” goal and when you hit the 50% mark it will vibrate and again when you hit your goal 100%. On this day I exceeded my step goal. This was, in part, due to an early morning run around 5:30.
SLEEP: One of the coolest and most unique features is the sleep tracker. I’m a little embarrassed and a lot concerned about my 76% sleep efficiency. As you can see by the red I was up past my bedtime and started to wake up around my usual 4:00 a.m. I woke up 3 times during the night with the second time being the longest. On the graph, the red indicates “awake,” the yellow is “light sleep” and the green is “deep sleep.” My sleep efficiency hovered around 75% throughout the week.
Meet Runtastic Orbit
I have since started walking everyday at work during part of my lunch break.
More movement and less sitting!
Now, I need to work on more restful sleep and a higher sleep efficiency.
The Runtastic Orbit is available for $119.99 which is comparable to most wearables on the market and includes 2 color band options (black and blue) along with an easy-to-use USB. Additional color options for the wristband are sold separately: orange/yellow/red and green/white/steel.
What do you think your sleep efficiency would be? A lot of red or more green?
With a 24-hour wearable what would you track most often? Steps? Sleep? Calories? All of the above?
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I’ve been hearing a lot about wearable tech lately and would be really interested to see my sleep patterns. I feel like I haven’t been sleeping well lately, so I wonder if this could help pinpoint why.
I’m really interested in this gadget, Mike and I always wanted to get more info about sleep and also activity during the day. We love to analyze, well we are both engineers after all 🙂 Question: can we buy one and create 2 profiles?
Very cool! I have heard great things about this. I love my polar loop for these exact same reasons. 🙂
I’m really intrigued by this. I used to have a fitbit but returned it because I didn’t like it. This seems much more user friendly and I like the face of it better. I am intrigued mostly by the sleep tracking!
What a cool addition to put the sleep tracker in there! My boyfriend had a phone app that did that and he ended up getting super competitive with himself about how efficiently he could sleep every night. I think I definitely spend more time in yellow and red, the exception being that amazing green zone sleep I get on the nights I have a glass of wine or two with dinner! 🙂
I think I would use that for sleep, but might also check the calories. The steps would be interesting since I move around a lot on the job, but I don’t know if that information would change my daily activity level by a lot.
Thanks for the review!
I tried the Polar loop a few months ago and really didn’t think it worked well. I wonder if this is better. Did it bother you to wear it all the time?
I’ve been wearing the FitBit Force this year and really like tracking both my steps and sleep – I had gotten during the day since I work out first thing and this has helped me stay more active all day long. My sleep is awful but I already knew that:)
I love runtastic, but I haven’t heard of the orbit before.
I wore and reviewed the Fitbit and while I find these gadgets cool, they are not for me. I think they are great though for those people who like and need the motivation to keep moving and to track calories and even for those tech-lovers. I am not even close to a tech-lover, I am so old-school lol.
I am really intrigued by these now! Wish I could have tried one! Glad you are enjoying yours, I think the sleep tracker would come in most handy for me as I seem to be pretty bad at it….so maybe would give me some insights why. I would see a lot of red, thats for sure!
I was rocking mine at blogfest and it is a great way to keep track of what you are doing throughout the day.
okay, i need (want) this. My jawbone is dead and i’ve been looking for something to measure steps as well and that’s small!
Not sure I like wearable fitness trackers. But I only tried a FitBit One for like one week before I destroyed it. Ha. I know my sleep measurements would suck. Don’t need a tracker to tell me that. However, I do LOVE charts and measurables! Sometimes I over-obsess over them.
I currently have a polar loop, but this one looks pretty awesome too!
I’ve been thinking about getting a wearable to track things like steps and calories. I really wouldn’t use the sleep function much – I usually get enough, good sleep that it’s not my biggest problem.
I love tracking my steps, holds me accountable even on rest days. Also forces me to get up away from the computer and walk! It’s a contest with myself to get to 10,000. Monitoring the sleep just makes me anxious I sleep horrible. I stopped tracking it.
The Runtastic Orbit sounds great! I currently wear a FitBit Flex. I love how it tracks my sleep. And I love looking at all the steps I take each day. I find myself walking more than I normally would now that I wear it.
Steps and calories. I need to know when I am “low”. 🙂
this is so interesting! I have been wanting something to track my steps… but sleep sounds nice too!
I’m so fascinated by all the information that you can gather from wearables these days. I would be most interested in sleep because I know that I don’t get enough and my sleep efficiency must be terrible!
Well doesn’t this look nifty! I think I would be bad for sleep, seeing as I wake up a lot to use the restroom….BUT I don’t know if I would even wear one, since I have a tendency to become a bit obsessive with numbers….so I try and base everything how I feel 🙂
Any cons to the device?
This looks so cool and I’ve been seeing people wearing these bracelet type gadgets, but I never knew exactly what they were. I’d love to try one out and see my numbers!
This looks super cool- I like the display screen- I don’t have that on my Fitbit- I have to sync mine with my I-phone to see my numbers but does a lot of the same things. I too think the sleep function is fascinating- I love seeing my stats. I too sit a lot at my desk and it is a definite reminder to get up and MOVE! Happy Monday Jill!
I LOVE tracking my sleep and it is really interesting on how things affect it. The RunTastic Orbit looks really cool!
It’s amazing what the new wearables can do! I’m wear testing a new device soon…I can’t wait to see what my numbers are. I’m sure the sleep report will shock me.