My Apple Watch drives me nuts. For it to count exercise minutes, I am pretty sure my heart rate has to be at or above 130. And I get the logic behind that...but I never, ever close that ring. I don't go to the gym or do high intensity workouts right now for a variety of reasons, but I do get (what I consider) a lot of exercise throughout the day. I average 10,000 steps, I lift and move heavy objects at work a few times a week, and I'm out there gardening or hiking every nice day I can. Some days I'm taking three showers because of how sweaty I'm getting. I can spend an hour digging a trench in the garden and I look at my stupid Apple Watch and it says 1m exercise. (Literally, this happened two days ago) UGH!! And yet, mowing the lawn counted as exercise.
I even manually start a "workout" with the workout app in the watch. I do like to see my heartrate and estimated calories and things, but then it's over and I haven't moved that stupid exercise ring.
Does sweating even matter? Does a heart rate between 110-125 do anything for me? Am I just so fat and out of shape that any exertion feels like I'm working out and makes me sweat, but really it's not that hard and I'm just pathetic?
I'm so frustrated with it. The scale is moving, so that's not my concern in this post...(I hit Onederland this morning yay). I just want my current level of exercise to count for something and not feel like a waste of time.
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