My Apple Watch lobs bits of wisdom to me on the regular.
“Yesterday you didn’t hit your workout goal.”
Yes. I know. I was in a car all day!
“Your VO2 max is low.”
Uh. I didn’t ask you to guess this. You also ignore cycling data sooooooo
And on and on it goes. Sometimes it tells me things I already know, like how little sleep I got.
The more confusing ones are prompts aimed at evaluating metrics I don’t care about or find meaningful.
My friends with Garmins fair no better. It’s a constant onslaught of being told you are doing garbage miles, overtraining or “detraining”?
The promise of smart watches is beautiful data transformed into coaching insights that help you achieve your fitness goals.
The reality is, even with sleep mode/do not disturb, my watch will buzz to prompt me to stand in the middle of the night. WHY???
I do take great comfort in the heart rate monitoring. It’s why I got the Apple Watch in the first place. Now I just need to figure out how to kill the annoying notifications.
My favourite is getting a reminder to “Move!” while I am sweating from effort in the middle of dance class.