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28 Apr 2018

How to Choose a Fitness Tracker to Suit Your Needs

The first fitness trackers produced were primarily step counters, but they’ve evolved into much more. They now use sensors to track your heart rate, calories consumed, sleep quality, and body fat percentage.

They’re available in a variety of colors, shapes, materials, and sizes, and whatever your fitness goals are, you’ll find a fitness tracker to help you meet them.

While it’s nice to have a variety of options when choosing a fitness tracker, the volume on the market today can make choosing one difficult. However, you can narrow down your choices.

Consider the following five key features when making your decision about which fitness tracker is right for you.

Design

The type of design you prefer boils down to where you plan to wear your fitness tracker. If you think you’ll wear it only when you exercise, you’ll probably want a different design than if you plan to wear it to work.

Many fitness trackers are worn around the wrist, but some fitness trackers are worn as necklace pendants, clips, and rings. Many of these designs look like jewelry.

Some fitness trackers resemble traditional watches, with a large watch face connected to a narrow band, while others look more like bracelets. In the past, fitness trackers all had a similar, athletic-looking quality, but their designs now vary considerably.

Battery Life

Battery life is an important consideration. Many fitness trackers need to be charged every few days. You plug them into a wall outlet or computer when their batteries run down.

While most require frequent charging, some trackers operate using cell batteries that last anywhere from a few months to a year.

Corresponding App

Research the corresponding app before purchasing a tracker to find out if it monitors all the data you need. Check and see whether the fitness tracker you want is available online or whether it’s available only for download. Make sure it has an intuitive user interface.

Waterproofing

Waterproofing is another feature to consider. Many fitness trackers are water resistant and can handle a little rain, but if you plan to do plenty of outdoor activities, you may want to opt for a waterproof option. Moisture can shorten the life of a fitness tracker.

Calorie Counter

Many fitness trackers monitor how many calories you consume and burn each day. Some tell you if those calories came from fat, carbohydrates, or protein.

By monitoring your activity level and energy expenditure rates, the calorie counter can also tell you how many calories you burn each day. It shows you how your caloric intake and burn varies over time and lets you compare your day-to-day results. This evidence may provide you with all the motivation you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Wearing a fitness tracker is a great way to meet your fitness goals. When you’re deciding which one to purchase, think about where you’re going to wear it, its battery life, corresponding apps, and whether the device counts calories burned and consumed. Once you’ve chosen the one that’s perfect for you, commit to wearing it every day. It can motivate you to move more, eat better, and live healthier.

27 Apr 2018

Combat Leaders Field Guide

A guide to small unit dismounted combat operations, extensively updated to include both the latest doctrine and lessons learned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

The Combat Leaders Field Guide covers the equipment, operations, and individual combat skills essential for soldiers and others who must act as infantry.
This book is essential for Army infantry leaders at the platoon and company level, Special Forces troops, Air Force security and patrol services, Marines, and other Army branches who operate as infantry when needed.
The basic skills all soldiers must know to prevail on the battlefield, including battle drills for offense and defense operations, patrols, construction and emplacement of fighting positions, use of weapons and artillery, mines and explosives, land navigation and map reading, communications, individual security and camouflage, and combat medicine (first aid).

The Combat Leaders Field Guide, is, in my opinion is a must have for all those that are preparedness minded. It shows a lot of techniques and skills that are unavailable unless you have earned the knowledge through a stint serving in the military.

I think this book is an indispensable addition to a prepper library as it is a good way to learn basic patrolling and other military techniques that would be essential to defending a fixed site like a farm or retreat.

26 Apr 2018

The Complete Walker III

When I was growing up, I lived on a state park and spent all my free time in the woods. What time I didn’t spend in the woods was spent with my nose in a book.

I checked The Complete Walker III out from the local library so many times that I filled up several of the little glued in checkout cards.

This book is jammed full of great backpacking and walking tips. I love how he made some of his own equipment and shows how to both lighten your load as the hit on your wallet when buying gear.

If your a prepper, and want to build a bug out bag, then this is a very useful reference.

The Complete Walker III is not the newest edition, and that is a fine book also, but being older, this book is cheaper used, and I have an emotional attachment to it, as I did spend so many hours dreaming over it’s pages.

I have always wanted to hike the Appalachian trail, and this book fueled that dream. I can’t call it a goal, as I don’t have any plans to actually do it, but it would be something awesome to do.

25 Apr 2018

Cooking With Home Storage

Cooking With Home Storage is one of the first prepping books I bought, and one of the few books that I have bought more than once.

The authors, Layton and Tate are masters of home food storage. I would recommend a prepper buying any book on this subject written by either of these smart ladies.

They are the food storage equivalent to Jeff Copper in Firearms.

Cooking With Home Storage has useful guides to long term food storage, great recipes, and other tips to make life a little easier, and more comfortable.

You would be well served with having this book on your shelf, I used it quite a bit as I started to learn how to store food.

Now that I have more experience and feel comfortable in storing my own food, I use this book as a cookbook because it has some great recipes.

This book has all manner of useful information that is essential to know when you are planning to live off of stored food. When you are willing and able to go to the store to round out a recipe cooking is easy. However, when you have to make substitutions because you have only what you have, cooking is harder.

24 Apr 2018

Country Beans

I picked up Country Beans just to buy something is a really cool store I visited in East Tennessee. I am sure glad I did. This book is the same book I used to make the Tofu and bean milk, as well as the bean flour I used to bake the bread, which opened the door to the acorn flour I used to make the bannock.

This book covers lots of material – from how to reduce gas, how to speed up the bean cooking process, and how to turn beans into a variety of other things. Who knew you could use beans in desserts?

If you are a long time reader of Dave’s Homestead, then you know I believe the basics of any food storage program needs to be wheat and beans – But bread and beans can get old quick.

This book is a great tool to prevent appetite exhaustion by giving you MULTIPLE ways to cook beans.

I have gotten a lot of projects based upon this book, and the concepts lead me to discover several more.

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