- IT'S MOTIVATIONAL
Health issues are all over the media these days. Every week there's
a new study that says if you eat one particular thing, you'll
be healthier, and then the next day there's another study that
says the opposite. One thing that has been proven, and has never
been disputed, is that people who are active are healthier. What
most people don't realize is that being active doesn't have to
mean joining a gym or taking up jogging or hiring a personal
trainer; it just means moving around more. How do you define
more? Well, you don't have to; your BioTrainer will do it for
you. It gives you the opportunity to actually see how active
you are, as opposed to how active you think you are. We've all
heard that expression "the numbers don't lie", and
they sure don't. It gives your efforts a great boost when you
can look at your BioTrainer and actually see how hard you've
been working. You don't have to wait to see and feel results
in yourself; proof is right there in front of you. BioTrainer
is totally objective; it knows whether you're working or not.
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- BAR GRAPH
This is another neat motivational feature, and it works in both
the calorie and activity modes. Each segment of the graph is
worth a certain number of points, and each time you accumulate
that number of points, another segment of the graph disappears.
This is another great way to set goals for yourself.
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- IT'S CONVENIENT
BioTrainer goes where you go and does what you do; it's with
you all the time. You don't need to keep a journal, because you
can take a quick look at the display any time to see how you're
doing. If you're just trying to be more active, the evidence
is right there. If you're trying to burn calories, the evidence
is right there. If you want to know how your activity level relates
to your calorie burn, it's right there at the touch of a button.
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- IT'S INEXPENSIVE
You can get your BioTrainer for much less than the cost of your
gym membership or a few short sessions with a personal trainer.
And once you have it, it's yours: it won't expire if you don't
give it more money, and it won't cancel on you at the last minute.
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- IT'S EASY
TO USE
BioTrainer has only one button for operation. You don't have
to hold button A while pressing button B three times or anything
like that. You can easily access every single feature from just
one button.
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- IT'S MULTIFUNCTIONAL
BioTrainer can count your calories burned through activity, and
display them not only as a number, but in the bar graph as well.
Some people aren't interested in counting calories, though; they
just want to know if they're being as active as they should,
and BioTrainer can display a number and a bar graph for that
too. And if you're interested in both those things, you can switch
back and forth between the two.
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- IT REMEMBERS
BioTrainer has a memory (in case you're losing yours). It will
store your daily results for nine days, so you can compare today's
results with yesterday's, or with your results from a week ago.
This really can be a great help, because as you look back over
your results you may begin to see a pattern that's tied to your
daily routine. If that happens, then you can analyze what's happening
and make changes. Maybe on Monday, Wednesday and Friday the numbers
you see are lower than on Tuesday and Thursday. Maybe these are
the days you walk to meet the school bus. Now you see concrete
evidence of something that adds activity to your routine, and
you can do more of it.
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- IT'S MEDICALLY
VALIDATED
A number of studies have been done using the BioTrainer, and
basically, they proved two points. First, what we call "lifestyle"
exercise, just walking around doing whatever you do, can be just
as effective as structured exercise, such as an aerobics class,
for weight loss. I don't think anyone would argue that it's much
easier to do 5 or 10 extra minutes of activity spaced throughout
the day than it is to find an hour or two to take a class or
go to the gym. And the other important thing we learned is that
people who receive immediate feedback on their efforts, like
the readout on the BioTrainer, are more successful at increasing
their activity level and maintaining that increase, and therefore
at losing weight and maintaining the weight loss.
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- IT'S ACCURATE
BioTrainer was developed under grants from the National Institutes
of Health in the US. As a result, it contains highly accurate
medical technology.
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- IT'S COMPACT
BioTrainer clips right onto your waistband. It's not any bigger
than a pager and it only weighs 2 ounces. But even as small as
it is, it's got a good-sized readout so you can keep track of
what you're doing.
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- AAA BATTERY
BioTrainer runs a regular AAA battery. You can pick them up anywhere.
And it's easy to install the new battery; just slide the battery
cover over to the side, take out the old battery and put the
new one in. It's OK if the cover comes off; just slide it back
onto the track.
