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Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Re: Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Post by radlad »

jeroenhd wrote: post #22
Ethee wrote: post #9

The biggest thing for me is I don't understand how people can sleep with these watches on, it's so uncomfortable to me personally which is why the different ring technologies appeal to me more. I just wish either Garmin made one or that there was one I didn't have to buy a subscription to use.

When I started wearing a watch, it constantly distracted me and cause minor annoyance all day while I got used to it. At some point it just started blending into the background. Now, when I wear my watch on my other hand, I still have the same problem, but I don't notice my watch normally anymore. I've slept with my watch for a while (stopped because the battery is crap and I need to charge it every day or it won't l…

> I've slept with my watch for a while (stopped because the battery is crap and I need to charge it every day or it won't last past noon the next day) and I've had the same adjustment period.

I'm guessing this is an Apple Watch? Garmins typically last a week or more.

Re: Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Post by asdff »

byproxy wrote: post #39
what_was_it wrote: post #36

> exercise-induced fatigue impairs complex cognitive tasks Apparently your study is strictly about cardio. Heavier compound lifts can surely knock me out for 30 minutes to 2 hours. I don't know how in the heck people train in the mornings. But a lot of this is because they are complex cognitive tasks.

Mornings (~6am), I often walk ~40min to my gym, do heavy compound lifts (~1hr total with ~2-3min rest between sets), walk ~40min back, and I tend to feel fine by the time I get back home. It's usually at the end of the day where the fatigue seems to catch up to me.

You’ve built up endurance already. The hard part of working out is getting to the point you got of not being completely sore for days after a single workout. I think that puts a lot of people off from consistent routines. I remember the first two weeks of track season no one could walk up stairs we were getting worked so hard, puking after ladder workouts 5 days a week. Eventually that petered out over the season but that initial hump from insufficient activity to being active is massive, and I don’t think a lot of us on the team would have surmounted it without essentially peer pressure and mutual support in suffering.

Re: Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Post by asdff »

Ethee wrote: post #9

The biggest thing for me is I don't understand how people can sleep with these watches on, it's so uncomfortable to me personally which is why the different ring technologies appeal to me more. I just wish either Garmin made one or that there was one I didn't have to buy a subscription to use.

Golf watch is another beffudler to me. I don’t want anything on my wrist when I swing. I don’t even want anything in my pockets.

Re: Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Post by byproxy »

asdff wrote: post #44
byproxy wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mornings (~6am), I often walk ~40min to my gym, do heavy compound lifts (~1hr total with ~2-3min rest between sets), walk ~40min back, and I tend to feel fine by the time I get back home. It's usually at the end of the day where the fatigue seems to catch up to me.

You’ve built up endurance already. The hard part of working out is getting to the point you got of not being completely sore for days after a single workout. I think that puts a lot of people off from consistent routines. I remember the first two weeks of track season no one could walk up stairs we were getting worked so hard, puking after ladder workouts 5 days a week. Eventually that petered out over the season but…

Oh, yea, for sure. One thing that keeps me consistent is that I know what happens when I take > 1 week off (which is sometimes unavoidable) and attempt to get back into it. DOMS⁰ for days.

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness

Re: Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Post by asdff »

runjake wrote: post #2

I've tracked sleep using a number of devices and algorithms and I haven't found a single one that regularly aligns with what and how I feel. I know it's tracking real data, but the conclusions feel completely made up. What are other people's experience -- especially from those who are more bullish about sleep tracking?

I’m surprised people need this data. Are they not aware if they had a good night sleep? Always had been obvious to me.

Re: Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Post by cyberpunk »

asdff wrote: post #47
runjake wrote: post #2

I've tracked sleep using a number of devices and algorithms and I haven't found a single one that regularly aligns with what and how I feel. I know it's tracking real data, but the conclusions feel completely made up. What are other people's experience -- especially from those who are more bullish about sleep tracking?

I’m surprised people need this data. Are they not aware if they had a good night sleep? Always had been obvious to me.

I think it’s more a way to explore the effects certain other behaviours can have on your sleep quality; for instance does a magnesium supplement help you get more deep sleep, what about workout timing does it effect how long it takes to fall asleep or interruptions and so on.

I don’t trust the raw numbers at all, really, but since i’m wearing the same sensor i can use it to spot trends at least.

Or that’s what i tell myself anyway…

Re: Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

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Post by pixl97 »

fifilura wrote: post #12
Ethee wrote: post #9

The biggest thing for me is I don't understand how people can sleep with these watches on, it's so uncomfortable to me personally which is why the different ring technologies appeal to me more. I just wish either Garmin made one or that there was one I didn't have to buy a subscription to use.

People used to sleep with watches 50 years ago too. You just get used to it.

How didn't they sweat their watch to corrosion? Or is that just a me problem when wearing something on my wrist?
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