as a former triathlon coach, looking at what you are doing now, I would suffer death by numbers/data, in the age of power meters, lactate testing, and heart rate zone, too few coach the art of honing your own perceived effort, I know you love the numbers and the science my friend
I also like to pretend I'm a professional athlete even though it's becoming more and more clear that I'm not.
Thanks for sharing Dan's post on pre-updating on sleep trackers. I've worn a garmin watch for years, and find myself agreeing almost wholesale with his post. I can almost predict what my HRV score is going to be based on if I feel tired or like I have a sickness coming on. At that point, what is really the point of the watch? I feel like it was useful in getting me to pay more attention to my body in the first place, but now that I'm calibrated, it feels less useful.
I still wear the watch, mostly for the ability to track mileage of runs/bikes or for routefinding, but I recently instated a rule that I don't look at my sleep score for the previous night until after noon.
I like that rule. My watch has suckered me into thinking that I'm more tired than I actually am — a reminder of how easily my mind/body can fooled by a chart.
*smh* own up that you are a data fitness nerd
as a former triathlon coach, looking at what you are doing now, I would suffer death by numbers/data, in the age of power meters, lactate testing, and heart rate zone, too few coach the art of honing your own perceived effort, I know you love the numbers and the science my friend
I also like to pretend I'm a professional athlete even though it's becoming more and more clear that I'm not.
Thanks for sharing Dan's post on pre-updating on sleep trackers. I've worn a garmin watch for years, and find myself agreeing almost wholesale with his post. I can almost predict what my HRV score is going to be based on if I feel tired or like I have a sickness coming on. At that point, what is really the point of the watch? I feel like it was useful in getting me to pay more attention to my body in the first place, but now that I'm calibrated, it feels less useful.
I still wear the watch, mostly for the ability to track mileage of runs/bikes or for routefinding, but I recently instated a rule that I don't look at my sleep score for the previous night until after noon.
I like that rule. My watch has suckered me into thinking that I'm more tired than I actually am — a reminder of how easily my mind/body can fooled by a chart.