Welcome to Fit to Be Real.
And a little extra.
Happy New Year!
2024!
We made it.
I like the positive swing you had on that one.
I was gonna go down and then I went up.
Yeah, you made it.
That is a choice.
So that's very good.
Yeah, we did though.
Convincing myself on air.
I think collectively everyone was happy to see 2023 go.
Yes, but I am in my Christmas depression right now,
which I've talked about and very sad it's over.
Again, it all went too fast.
Did you do any of the tips that we had talked about
in the hearing up for holidays stuff?
Like were you exhausted on Christmas morning?
No, I wasn't.
I was not exhausted on Christmas.
I was exhausted yesterday.
So that's when it all hit me.
But not on Christmas morning and I was so happy.
But you know, what I also didn't do on Christmas Eve,
I didn't drink wine.
Which for me, I usually drink a ton of wine
and then stay up till 3 o'clock
wrapping the last minute presents
and then get up at 6 o'clock.
And I didn't do that.
And I enjoyed it a lot.
But did you have fun at Christmas Eve?
Oh yes, I made up for Christmas Eve on Christmas.
Oh, okay.
Oh, did I have fun on Christmas Eve?
Yes. Oh my gosh.
Without drinking.
Yes, yes, yes, I did.
I did.
But it can be done.
It can be done, but you can also make up for it the next day.
I didn't realize that.
I mean, I wasn't bad.
I just like, I was like,
I'm gonna drink wine today because I feel good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So let me feel bad.
But yeah, I am.
I'm like, oh, it's over.
It was all a blur.
It was all a dream.
I know.
It's sort of, I was telling somebody yesterday,
it's like your wedding day.
Like everyone says stop and take a second
because it's gonna go by so quickly.
And then it's over, it's over.
Luckily for Christmas, we get to do it again next year.
But it is.
Well, you might get to get married again.
You never know.
I hear he passed out on Christmas Eve.
He did.
Didn't help you out at all.
He did not.
He drank a lot on Christmas Eve,
went to put the kids to bed and also went to bed.
So yes.
I was tired.
You were?
I was tired, but I think I was in,
I didn't do all of the food lifestyle health tips
that we put out.
So I was like groggy from junk food.
Junk food.
Yeah.
Cause I didn't drink,
but I'm like poisoning myself in that way.
I was.
I'm not doing that right now.
No, like you can feel that.
You just feel like I couldn't open my eyes
and they felt very heavy and sunken in and dark.
And I haven't had dark eyes ever in my life.
I don't get those dark circles.
Unless I'm extremely tired or sick.
And I couldn't, I really was at my pinnacle of unhealthy.
Right.
Was it my monkey bread?
It could feel it.
Yeah.
And my monkey bread doughnuts.
I know.
I showed up on Christmas morning with monkey bread
and Victoria showed up with monkey bread doughnuts.
It just, it was for us, it was Christmas Eve, Christmas,
the day after Christmas, second Christmas.
And then a surprise 70th birthday,
I almost didn't say it cause I thought it was a surprise.
It's over, you can say it.
Yeah.
A surprise party and with visitors that stayed for the week
and then a brunch after the party.
It was a nonstop junk food craze.
Yes, all while we never took a day off from teaching.
We never slept.
Except Christmas morning.
So it was junk food on top of being tired,
on top of visitors, on top of, we never got a day off.
I don't feel, yeah, we did not rest or relax or recover.
Yeah.
Like we didn't get that Harry Potter day.
No, we did not.
And I don't know if we ever will again.
No, that's, you know, we will.
I'll make it happen.
Well, you didn't make it happen this year.
So you know what, we're moving on.
Well, we'll get a day off maybe in March and then we'll do it.
We'll do it like a random day in March.
Okay.
I approve.
Okay, good.
That was our Christmas recap, our holiday recap.
Our new year's Eve was, I was in bed by 10 30.
I was in bed by 11 30, but then woke up at midnight
when I heard all the fireworks.
And then I watched the countdown.
Oh my gosh, no, I was out, old.
You were with me.
No, I left.
We were playing games with our family.
And I said, okay, I'm done.
Bye.
Yeah, she left.
And I left at 10 30 and you did continue.
And then I was in bed because you worked all
because I had clients the next day.
We did not get a break.
However, we're very happy to be here.
We're very excited to be talking about this today
because today is a very good topic for number one,
January, getting into the new year.
Whether you're a fitness pro or fitness is your goal
for this year and you're just getting into it
in your beginner, fitness tracking is a thing.
It is.
And we are going to talk about the best ways to do it
and the not so best ways to do it.
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
This is your first one in 2024.
I know.
And I did it like it's in my voice box now.
Like, hey guys, I'm Carly.
Like I can do it.
If somebody came up to me on the street,
it would sound the same.
So the best all around watch.
And this was shocking to me,
but the best all around watch for fitness,
for counting steps, for having like an actual watch face,
just to have a watch on your hand,
is the Fitbit Charge six.
It can check your skin's temperature.
Stop it.
And your 24 seven heart rate reading.
And take ECGs and track your activities and sleep schedule
in it's a Google app.
Google FIDE is what it says app.
I would have loved that when I was pregnant with Melody
because I was, I don't know if a lot of people know this,
but I went through fertility with Melody.
And when you leave fertility, they wanted to monitor me
and they knew that I worked out a lot.
So I had to wear, they wanted to track my heart rate.
Yeah.
And then it got up to a certain number.
I had to like take it down.
It beat.
Yeah.
But it was a full on vest.
Strap on to my chest.
This would have been so much better and easier
because if it checks your heart like that,
I bet it would like beep and then I could just take it down.
I had to wear a full on body armor.
I forgot, I totally forgot about that.
Mind you, she was also very pregnant.
So it was, there was a lot going on.
And I had a lot of hair.
So there was just a lot of a lot.
So yeah, the Fitbit Charge 6 is the best all around
for everything that you're looking for.
And it's not going to break the bank,
which is another piece as to why it's the best all around
and not like an Apple product.
I wonder if it's just cause it's not Apple,
like they're more inexpensive.
Well, we're going to get into other brands
that are very expensive.
I'll wait, that are an Apple.
I'll wait.
Yeah, wait your turn.
So for like $130, you're going to get this Fitbit.
And love your life.
Oh wait, my favorite feature of this,
the battery lasts one full week.
Shut up, you don't have to charge it every day.
Stop.
It lasts a full week.
Yes, that is the only watch that does that.
That's insane.
One full week of battery life.
Oh my God.
Runner up watch best all around is a Garmin Vivo move trend.
That's what it's called.
So I like the look of it
cause it looks like an actual watch.
If you're a watch wearer, I'm not.
No.
I wear it to work out and to walk and track like my miles.
But I don't, they're the only features I use on my watch.
I don't let messages come in.
I don't take phone calls on it.
Neither do I.
There's no other point other than my affirmation apps
that come out on the watch,
which we'll talk to talk about as well.
So this one, if you're like somebody who wears a watch out
like on a Saturday.
It's a piece of jewelry.
Yes.
Or you know, to actually know the time.
It's actually at the time.
It looks like a nice watch with the rubber band,
but it's a metal watch head and it looks, it looks beautiful.
It's wireless charging, which is a good thing.
Okay.
So that you can charge it with anything.
Like you can charge it anywhere with a station.
You know how most other companies change
every time they come out with a new product
or a new level to the product.
You have to change a charger.
A new charger.
This one doesn't do that as wireless.
Oh, it's pretty cool.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
And of course it does all of the regular tracking things
that you would want it for fitness features.
Obviously the GPS is amazing.
Well, that's what I think of when you say Garmin.
I'm like, map quest on the top of my car.
I think Garmin was after the Tom Tom.
Tom Tom.
Tom Tom was after good old fashioned map.
So.
Wow.
That's what I think of.
That is amazing.
It's about $270 on all platforms.
As the runner up.
270.
As the runner up.
Okay.
Yep.
And it does the heart rate monitoring
and the sleep tracking and the,
I do like it does incident detection.
What does that mean?
I think if you have an accident.
If you fall.
Okay.
It does contactless payment as well.
So you just hit your watch to the,
I think the square or whatever.
I'm not there yet in my like 2024 type of living.
Oh my God, no.
I'm not tapping.
Like I just figured out my credit card
or my debit card can tap and I don't like it.
Yeah.
It's too space age for me.
I agree.
I totally agree.
Remember when it stopped from swiping to inserting?
To inserting.
Yeah.
I'm still there.
Very weird.
And that's a lot.
So I don't know if I'm into like tapping my watch.
I don't know why you guys listen to us.
Okay.
Best watch if you have an iPhone.
In Apple Watch.
Apple Watch.
Series nine.
So the title for that is best watch
if you have an iPhone.
And it really is amazing.
If you have all the Apple products,
you need to get the watch.
If you care about fitness tracking or sleep tracking
or even your heart rate monitoring.
So the series nine is the one that I think
is the most recent one, right?
Yeah.
But it does everything.
It has new watch faces.
They redesigned the whole app for, you know,
the watch app on the phone that you get.
Yes.
Like when you get the phone.
Yes.
All of that is a little bit upgraded.
And then they really switched up their health related features
which is the heart rate and the sleep tracking.
It's a little bit more accurate.
So Andrew sleeps with it
because he likes to track his sleep.
Oh my God, I can't.
I can't either because I'm like,
oh, take it off.
I want it away from me.
Charge it.
But he'll wake up in the morning and say,
let's see how much sleep I got.
He's like, oh, I got four and a half good hours.
And then two hours that was restless.
I'm like, oh, why do you want to know that?
I was there.
Like you were there.
Then you feel it.
But no, don't you ever wake up and go,
I guess I didn't sleep well.
And then you have proof that you didn't.
Yeah.
Well, so really quickly,
side note, but also right on par.
I listened to a podcast.
Mm, shocky.
Melly R.
Oh yes, Melly R.
She was doing a recap of all of her favorite interviews
of things that she learned over 2023.
And one of the, I forget what doctor it was,
was talking about the importance of having water
in the morning and waiting 45 minutes to eat
or drink coffee.
No.
Listen.
Why?
Do you do this?
You might ask.
Why?
Stupid.
I was swallowing my coffee.
Sorry.
Is because there is a chemical that while we sleep builds up.
And right now, it's the actual name of it is escaping me,
but it's the groggy chemical.
It's what they're calling it.
And it's that feeling when you wake up
and you're just like out of it and you can't,
you're not like fully there when you get out of bed.
We always try to not feel like that when we get out of bed.
But I think 99% of the time, that's how we feel.
So if you wake up and you go right to coffee
or you go right to make food, that build up of that chemical
doesn't get released.
And so it stays in this pocket because your body goes
to drinking, digesting, instead of letting
that look itself out, clearing it out, basically.
So what happens is if that doesn't clear itself out
because you've now eaten or drank coffee,
you want another cup of coffee at one.
And then you want another cup of coffee at four.
Yes, describing me.
Yes.
So it's this groggy chemical that you
have to let fully disperse.
And then you won't.
Maybe you'll have another cup of coffee at two,
but it's not because you feel like you need it
because you can't get through the day.
Right, it's because you're addicted.
Yeah.
Yes, that's a different chemical problem.
OK.
That's very interesting.
Yeah, it's true.
It's accurate.
And you're doing life wrong.
So the next one.
I like how she just throws those Easter eggs in there.
Is that mean what I think it means?
I would like to throw eggs at you.
Easter eggs, like, you know, when
you're dropping a little hint or a bomb or something.
I think it's a Taylor Swift reference, honestly.
And I'm not cool enough.
I, yeah.
We'll look it up.
We'll fact check the Easter eggs.
Sherry, let us know.
OK.
If you want a watch for the best budget tracker,
because it's only $100.
Oh.
Only $100.
It's another Fitbit.
It's the Fitbit Inspire 3.
And it's a simple health tracker.
It'll do steps, sleep, let you know when someone's calling you.
You think it's a knockoff because it's so cheap?
Yeah.
Type of thing when you're searching on the internet.
But it's only $100.
People get discouraged, or not discouraged,
but they'll go away from something that's like,
oh, that's only $100.
It must be useless.
It must be cheap or not work.
Or like a generic brand.
Yeah.
It's not.
I love.
So generic.
It does.
It does all the basic.
It's basically like a basic, basic thing.
Nothing sparkly, shiny, or really exciting.
I used to see a lot of kids at the dance studio with Fitbits
as their first watch.
I mean, now everybody's getting Apple Watches
and they're like 10.
But I used to see a lot of Fitbits.
Not so much anymore, but.
That's nice.
OK.
Next one.
The best running watch for runners.
Oh, tell me, tell me.
Obviously, it's a Garmin.
I'm sorry.
We are not sponsored by them and never will be after that.
It is a Garmin.
Really?
Forerunner 255.
That's what it's called.
It scored an 8 out of 10.
Wow.
Over the Apple.
This is just for running.
I know, but still.
Because it has a multi-band GPS support, let me tell you.
And a barometric altimeter.
We're runners.
Cool.
A compass.
You wouldn't know how to use it anyway.
It does have improved sleep tracking and Bluetooth
compatibility and all that stuff.
But it estimates about 30 hours of continuous use.
I mean, that's a lot.
Yeah.
Not a week.
But it's more than daily, you know, whatever.
It does a daily greeting and it does weather info.
It literally says, and other tidbits.
So in terms of running, I think it's because of the accuracy.
You know how when you and Andrew run
and you're wearing two watches, your miles will be different?
Yes, they are.
This has more accuracy so that they probably
would be more alike if you both had a Garmin.
Right.
However, these are about $350, $400.
Yikes.
Should have asked for that for Christmas.
It's too late now.
I mean, you wouldn't know how to use a compass.
So it doesn't matter.
No.
And you know she knows never eat soggy waffles.
However, you imagine her running being like,
never eat soggy waffles.
But I wouldn't know how to use it.
Am I a waffle?
Yeah.
I wouldn't know how to be like, oh, that's South is home.
No, that's not for me.
She's like, I want to go soggy.
I'm going never eat.
I want to go soggy.
Best for Android owners is the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6
and Watch 6 Classic.
So they're two different watches.
They're both Samsung Galaxy, but Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic
for Android phones, which is like its own world I don't know.
Yes.
I do not know the Android other than it comes up green.
And it really messes up my text messages
when one person has an Android in a text thread.
But I digress.
Yes.
So in addition to all the usual health features,
it has auto workout detection.
So you don't have to go into the watch
and be like, I'm about to work out.
This is the kind of workout I'm doing.
It knows.
Sometimes Apple watches do that where it's like,
it seems like you're running.
Right.
So this one just has it automatically.
And then it'll just start tracking.
It doesn't have to ask you to start it.
Start it.
It doesn't work for you.
Every time I'm like, oh my gosh,
I forgot to start my watch and the workout is over,
it would have already started for me.
Great.
Yeah.
And then the big one is that the FDA has cleared
its irregular heart rate notifications and blood pressure
monitoring.
Oh.
So yeah.
That's pretty cool.
Seems legit.
Our teacher, Justin, just started wearing a glucose monitor
while he teaches.
Why?
Because he's having dips while he teaches
and it just seems a regular frame.
Our Pilates teacher, Christina, also does that.
But it's more of like she's tracking.
Yeah.
So something like this.
Now, I know that's glucose and not heart rate,
but it does the same thing.
Like it's going to be a little bit more accurate.
And oh, wow, my heart does this.
And then my oxygen levels go up to this.
Should we be doing that?
You're alive.
You're fine.
OK.
It sounds like a lot for me.
Oh, the Watch Six classic is 430.
The Watch Six is 300.
That's a lot.
It's a lot.
But you know what?
You wear your watch every day.
Yeah.
You use it every day.
You track every single workout if you're going for a run.
Like you have to kind of weigh out the usage
if you want to put dollar signs to like each minute
or each whatever.
It kind of pays itself, I think, pretty quickly.
Yeah.
No, I guess you do have to do that.
Because when you see a big chunk of change like that,
you really do have to dissect like, well, you know,
I wear it every single day.
How many minutes a day?
Like it is paying for itself.
Yeah.
And there are a bunch of other watches.
There's a bunch of other brands.
Those are just the top ones.
And really, you find what you like.
And you base your metrics off of what you have on your wrist
and what you're doing and then go from there.
That's that.
That was interesting that Apple was not the number one.
I would just think Apple owns the world.
It was.
That's why it was on all of the talk show articles
and stuff like that.
And I think it was more of like, the new series is coming out.
Let's push this one a little bit harder.
So that's why I did a little bit more of a deep dive
to find some more accurate.
There it is.
First deep dive of 2024.
We are going to completely shift gears right now,
like the gears of a watch.
Get it?
Yeah.
We're going to talk about fitness tracking anxiety.
That's not completely switching gears.
No, it's just turning.
I'm sorry.
We're going to completely turn gears right now.
We're going to turn the side.
And we're going to talk about fitness tracking and anxiety,
which gives you anxiety.
Yeah, which is very common.
I honestly, I'm going to start this off by saying,
it starts very young, I feel like.
And my daughter, Melody, asked for a smartwatch
last year for her birthday.
And I said, why?
Why do you want a smartwatch?
She said, I want to see how many steps I take a day.
Where did she get that from?
I don't know, because I don't I don't track that.
You don't talk about it.
No, I don't.
I don't even track it.
Like, I it's not a thing for me.
Well, your watch tracks up for you.
Well, I know.
But like, I'm not into like, I need 10,000 steps a day.
Like, I don't care.
Right.
So I I'm not like, oh, my gosh, I need to make it.
I'm only at eight.
I need to get to nine.
She's never heard that before because all of her friends
are talking about it and they're tracking.
How how many did you get today?
How many did you get today?
Scary.
Isn't that crazy?
And she was eight.
She was eight.
So I think the anxiety over that kind of thing
is starting earlier and earlier.
But if you are an adult, I know I have fitness tracking anxiety.
And Victoria specifically gave me this portion
because she said, just talk about yourself.
But I do.
And one, I'll tell you, I'll tell you at the end what
one of my goals is for this year.
But there is no denying that the watch can give you anxiety.
How many times do you start a workout
and everyone you look down and everybody's
starting their watches?
Or do you finish a workout and everyone's
stopping it right away because they want to make sure
they get every single second?
I mean, we see it every day.
Well, you do the thing.
I used to do this where you still move a little bit
if you're not at a number you don't like on the watch.
Like if it's on 59 and you would like to round it to 60,
she shakes a little bit more.
Or your runs in place.
Oh, yep.
Well, I mean, a lot of people do that.
You get very fixated on the numbers.
Yes.
And that really is the number one anxiety-induced fear
of wearing the watch.
And one of our teachers, Jacqueline,
stopped wearing the watch.
And she felt she said it made her feel really free.
Like it's still the same workout.
She still gave 150%.
She just doesn't know the actual number.
And I might try that.
You should try that.
I might try that.
Because you do the thing.
And a lot of other people do.
I just swim with Carly all the time.
That if you forget to turn it on or you forget to wear it,
she does.
Oh my gosh, we have to do it again.
We have to start over.
And it's a joke.
It's a total joke for class.
And it's fun.
And everyone just like laughs.
But there's a part of that where it's like, you get so upset.
Oh yeah.
I'm like, what a waste.
What?
No.
I know that.
And I only have five jokes in my joke book.
And that's one of them.
And I've been using them for 13 years.
So there's that.
But also it's like, seriously, what a waste.
But it's not.
You did it.
It's done.
Your body doesn't even know you're wearing a watch.
I know.
All right.
So here are some of the ways to avoid watch-wearing anxiety.
So the number one is to set small, easy goals.
So if you're new to working out and say you just
got a watch for Christmas, don't have your goal.
Be I must get 10,000 steps.
Which, by the way, is not realistic or science-spect.
10,000 steps.
That was something that the watch companies or fitness
companies put out there.
And everybody ran to it.
And it's actually not scientifically based
that you need 10,000 steps today.
Really?
No, it's not.
But if you're new to working out and you're
used to sitting in an office, you're not
getting 10,000 steps on day one of your Apple Watch.
So that's going to set you up for failure right away.
Right.
Because then you're going to be running up and down
the hallways or running around your house like, take it down.
Just take it down.
Or you'll just stop trying.
Exactly.
Because you won't make it.
And there are prefixed settings on these watches.
So you have to be careful of what they already
have set as your goals.
And you have to go in and manually change your own goals.
Well, that's little side A. Side A?
Indent A?
Indent A of this one is to ignore any default or automatic goal
settings.
Because that's for the general public that's not for you.
It's not for you.
So that's manufactured for the watch company
and not necessarily going to fit in your day.
And if it's telling you to stand up and walk,
you may be able to.
You may not be able to.
So really, really set your goals smaller, especially
if you're new to working out.
Don't go for 10,000 steps right away.
Get up to it.
Sure.
That's a great goal to get long term, but not day one.
Really just get outside and take a walk and start adding up.
The second one is, D, prioritize streaks and challenges.
So we're not a challenge-based gym, fitness studio.
We don't do 30-day challenges.
We don't do like turkey trot challenges.
We don't do that.
You challenge yourself individually.
You challenge yourself every time you actually get up
and get into a class.
I was going to say the challenge is showing up.
It's showing up.
And that's pretty much our challenge.
But if you are a challenge-focused person,
it's not really great for you to be wearing a watch
to see what other people's are, because then it just
turns into comparison, which is not great in the long run.
If you are a very competitive person
and you are in one of these challenges,
say with a group of people on your watch,
or you're just in a challenge at your own gym,
you run the risk of getting run down, risking injury,
because you are not able to stop.
I am a competitive person.
Not so much that I need to win, but I like a good challenge.
With yourself.
With myself.
How other people.
Right.
But what I'm saying is I won't take a break.
I will run through injury.
I will work out through any illness I'm feeling.
Any watch addiction that you have.
That's the truth.
So challenge isn't great for me on a watch.
And if you are a competitive or feel
like you are unable to take a rest day because
of that competitiveness, it's not
great to be in an Apple Watch challenge.
And I think sometimes when I would do that,
I would be like, oh, just push through.
And then you end up with Achilles tendonitis.
Like I just did.
I wasn't in a challenge, but I have a hard time stopping.
Stopping.
And a lot of it has to do with, man,
I got this amount of calories yesterday.
I got to do the same today.
Sometimes people let that watch dictate their daily life.
And that is when it becomes a little bit scary or an addiction.
And yes, I'm looking at myself in the mirror.
So when people post their calories from any gym
that they go to, there's so many friends
that go to different places.
They don't work out together.
And then they post their workout or what their watch metrics
are.
Same goes for if you're with friends or anyone in the same class
that you're in and you post your watch.
No one's going to have the same calories.
Everyone's body burns differently, very, very differently.
Carly and I are so different according to the watch.
And it makes so much sense that when
you see this stuff, you have to think about that.
Oh, I didn't burn 400 calories in this 30 minute weight class.
I'm not doing a good job.
Oh my gosh, that's not true.
That's almost impossible, by the way, too.
Yes, very much so.
But some bodies, it's more alarming for them to be in a workout.
And if you're new, you're going to burn a lot more at the start.
So if you've been working out for a long time
and you're trying to compare to these watches,
it is not a comparison you want to get into.
It's sort of, it is a joke.
Like when I forget to wear my watch or if I forget to turn it on at the end of class,
I'll just say, oh my gosh, I got what you got.
Just tell me what you got and that's what I got.
It is a 100% joke because every single person in the class
is going to get a different number.
And I'd love actually to see that.
Anybody wearing a watch, I'd love to just be like, wow, you got this, this, this.
And not one number is the same.
Yeah.
And let's be clear, that is an estimation.
Exactly.
All watches are estimations.
That is not fact.
Yes.
It goes off of what, like how tight is your watch?
Is it going to really pick up your heart rate better than if it's a little bit looser?
That is one of the main factors.
So there's your watch list, but don't buy one.
I'm just kidding.
The next one is refocus when injured, ill or going through difficult times.
Basically, don't push yourself when your body cannot be pushed.
And that is due to an addiction to your watch.
You can actually set your watch for a rest day and tell your watch to tell you that this
day is rest day.
So if you really, yeah, if you really need your watch to tell you what you do, because
sometimes that's kind of person you are, make it set that your watch tells you to be in
recovery mode and take a break for a day because your watch told you.
So you must do it.
A little trick.
That's cool.
And the last one is review and reflect.
I mean, really take a second.
Are you addicted to your watch?
Are you addicted to the numbers on your watch?
Are you comparing?
Are you getting anxiety if you forget your watch?
Are you getting anxiety during a class or during a workout if the numbers aren't high
enough?
I mean, all of these things matter.
And if you're saying yes to a lot of them, even not all of them, but a lot of them, that
means you have fitness tracking anxiety and maybe it's time to take the watch off for
a little bit.
Yeah.
I know that I can be like that.
And one of my goals for 2024 is actually to work out less.
And I wrote it down and I'm going because I do work out not just at Seafit.
I go for runs more for my mental health because that's when I make up my songs for Seafit.
So I'm working on Seafit.
That's not mental health.
I know.
No.
But a little bit, it's like, oh man, I worked out so hard yesterday.
I need to work out so hard today.
And it has become a little bit of an addiction and I don't need to work out so much.
Take the watch off a couple days a week.
And yeah, I set it here.
So I guess I have to do it.
Go for you.
Yeah.
That's huge.
It's a hard one for me.
That's huge because that's something I texted her and I'm like, why did you just work out?
What are you doing?
And you'll have some excuse or some reason.
And sometimes it's valid.
Not all the time.
And not most of the time.
But it has become a scary mental place of having to keep up with yourself.
Right.
It's all about me.
As it should be.
I mean, that's beyond it.
It's all about me.
But it is more of like, I want to spend less time a day working out and having more life
back because I'm spending a lot of hours a day working out or thinking about working
out or putting my schedule together around working out, which you should do.
Plan in.
Your workouts is absolutely what you should be doing.
But there is a point when you go overboard.
And I have jumped the ship and I'm swimming back.
So that's my goal.
That's one of my goals.
And now you set it out loud and we have a six months check-in.
So we'll see how you feel.
But the watch definitely plays a part in obsession of body composition and obsession
of over working out over doing it too much.
That's what I mean by over.
I mean, I'm not lying that when I am working out, sometimes I will do 50 extra jumping
jacks to make it.
So I got X amount of calories just because I like a certain number.
And that is when it becomes an obsession with your watch because had I not been wearing
the watch, who the heck knows?
Well, you would have just felt good.
You got you got classed down and you even happy and you would have gone on all of your
day.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
That's really great.
There are pros and cons to the watches.
There are so many pros that has not fitness related to the watch.
Oh, yeah.
So one of that's what I said earlier.
A deterrent of the watch is that it can give you notifications too many times.
It disrupts your day or it tells you you're not moving.
You better start moving.
And that can be maybe a mental headspace that feels like you're getting in trouble or you're
not doing a good job.
Right.
However, first of all, silence is notifications.
Second of all, there are apps like calm, calm.
Oh, I thought you were going to spell it like a different way.
No, it sounds like calm.
So calm.com is the same thing.
I was waiting for you to spell it a different way and I was like, that's how you spell it.
No, calm.
It's an app where meditation is the primary focus.
However, they do a lot of other amazing somatic and breathing exercises.
It's very mental.
Yeah.
And it's called calm.
I have it on my phone.
I did it because I wanted to get better at meditating and you can track just like fitness
how many days you're meditating.
You want a long streak so that there's all for the greater good.
However, on the watch, it can pop up like you need a moment of breathing for yourself.
My watch always tells me to breathe.
The watch has its own feature.
Apple watch we're talking about has its own feature to do that.
Calm will pop up like the notification.
The actual, I don't want to use the word guru, but that like Jay Shetty has his own
piece of calm.
Got it.
He'll pop up and be like, you should listen to this at seven minutes and then maybe I'll
have the time to do that.
But it reminds me to tune back in.
And then another one is called the I am app.
I space A M.
I love when you spell things the way they're supposed to be.
It doesn't sound to me.
They sound weird.
So it's an affirmation app and you can do it for body positivity.
You can gear the app to what you need help with.
Yeah.
It's self love.
So you you'll get affirmations.
That's just about like reinforcing yourself.
Oh my gosh.
I always see this pop up on your phone.
Yes.
It's on a timer.
I mine is like every you can do every 15 minutes or you can do every hour.
You can do like mine starts at six a.m.
I'm not a stalker.
I just your phone is always going off.
I'm like, what is that?
A banner comes down with an affirmation and I have mine like all over the map of different
things.
Body positivity is one of them.
But if you are an obsessive person right now with your watch and your stuff and you need
a little bit more body positivity, self love type of stuff, it's a great app.
And then guess what?
All I do is read it and move on.
Yeah.
I just sit there.
I don't say it three times and turn around and wink in the mirror.
I wait, wait, but can you know we're doing that?
That's got to be a tip.
I just read it once and that that's enough to like sink in and move on until the next
one pops.
Yeah.
No, I like that a lot.
And I've seen it on your phone.
It pops up on my watch too.
Yeah.
And it's really great when my watch is on water mode so that I don't hit it and it stops.
But then that pops up and then that's stuck right there too.
However, there are a lot of good things that can be notifications on your watch for mental
and physical health, which is basically what we're talking about because they're connected.
And there is a very dangerous place that they can go and there's a very happy place
that they can go for yourself.
So if you have an addictive personality, you just have to think about more purchases
that you're making.
So this might be one of those things that this is your addiction.
Oh, yeah.
There's no other way to say it.
Definitely.
It's addiction.
But it always has been since we first started, but not until maybe the past couple years
I've been trying to, what's it called, beat my own records.
Yeah.
I'm not in competition with anybody else.
I am trying to up my level constantly, but in doing that, it's taking a lot of my life
away.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And I think that's true for a lot of people when anything, when you try and up the level,
like too much, there's a, there's a happy medium and I got to find that happy medium.
Well, this is the year to do it.
Yeah.
I've already told you when this watch burns out and it's already started, like the battery
is not lasting a whole day.
But now mind you, we start so early that maybe it does, but we're not making it to our night
classes because the day has been since 4am.
I have to recharge my watch around three o'clock or else I won't make it to the night one because
it, we get up at like 445.
So maybe it's not actually burning out, it's probably a mix of both.
This is a real decision.
Guys, this is a real time.
Aha.
It's a mix of both, but it's not charging the way it is and some, and I don't, if I
don't make it to three, I don't charge it.
I'm like, screw it.
And then you won't wear it at night.
When it dies, I won't be wearing it.
When I walk, I won't be, I'm not buying another one.
Right.
I don't wear a yoga anymore.
I, because it doesn't matter.
It hasn't helped me.
Yeah.
So why, it also hasn't hurt, but it's not, you know, what's the point at this point,
except I do like the notifications for like the meditation stuff.
Well, but Louis just got a gab watch, which is a kids watch that can text and call the
four people on the list.
And that's it.
It's really for emergencies, but he's been texting me a lot and I've been getting it
on my watch and I don't want to miss that.
So I, I will be wearing it, but I think that I will be turning it off for some of my workouts
that.
You just turn your, your phone on and you'll hear those notifications because your phone
will be on.
No, I can't do that.
That's not a goal for me in 2020.
Well, can't win them all.
Can't win them all, but that's good.
That's a great goal for you.
Yeah.
And we'll see if I stick to it.
You will.
It's hard.
It's hard, but you will.
And you'll do it in increments.
You can't just like, take it off all together.
Just like that first goal that I, or the first little step I said, setting small goals.
Like I'm not going to just decrease my activity by 90%.
I will eventually lower and lower.
Yeah.
And to the things that I want to do or the things that I enjoy doing, I want to get back
to like enjoying like my fitness and my tracking and stuff like that.
And right now I'm not enjoying it.
So that, but those are small steps.
You got to take small steps.
If you just try and like knock everything out, you're going to fail.
You're going to, it's not going to stay.
It's interesting.
You have a fitness tracker on your wrist, but you're ignoring your fitness.
Come again?
Do you know?
Like when you get to that point, and I actually think there are way more people that are like
you right now with the watch that you're, you're wearing something that is tracking the
workouts that you're doing.
It's doing its goal.
It's doing its purpose.
It's giving you metrics for your calorie burn and the mileage that you're doing and yada,
yada, yada.
But you're ignoring how your body feels.
Right.
You're not doing the fitness part of the fitness tracker.
If you were doing see if it's extended, you're lifting weights for 30 minutes.
You're ignoring, you're not even listening to your body to be like, how did I feel?
What presses harder today?
Are my legs sore?
Right.
Did I, did I get to do more in each 40 seconds or am I tired?
You're not paying attention to that.
No.
You're looking at your watch for the numbers.
Right.
So there's a big piece of injury in terms of your brain and your body that you could
be doing to yourself because you're not, you're not actually aware of your, of yourself.
I know.
Do you look down at your watch during class?
Never.
You never do that.
Not until it's over.
Because to me, I like to go, oh man, I did that class yesterday and I got this at the
end.
Like I won't push any harder.
The class that I give is the class that I give.
Like I can't, like that's just what I do.
But I like to be like, why?
I did the same class yesterday.
Why?
But it doesn't matter.
Did I enjoy doing the workout?
Then it was effective.
Boom.
13 years in the biz just figured it out.
Wow.
I say this to her every day.
Every day.
When she goes, oh my God, this is all I got.
I'm like, are you kidding me right now?
She at first goes, okay.
I'm like, oh my God.
What are you doing?
I mean, we have the, what she's saying, she's brilliant.
She didn't come up with what she just said.
I have been saying this to her for almost a year now.
One whole year.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to listen now because I want to go back to having fun in my life and not
caring so much about the stuff that does not matter.
And one of the things that does not matter, there's so many things that don't matter.
But one of the things that don't matter is one of the things that don't matter.
One of the things that doesn't matter.
Oh, awesome.
Cool.
Pick which one is correct.
Pretend I said that.
Great.
Is the number on a watch during a workout.
It doesn't.
It is such a small thing in the big life picture.
Just have fun when you work out.
And that's why I love what we do because it is so fun.
So if you take away the, for me, not for everybody, for me, the negative part, which is looking
down at my watch, then I'll have more fun again.
And that's really the point.
Your real tip is to do that vision board on the back of your phone.
Screenshot either your notepad of typing your goals out or pictures that represent your
goals and making it the background of your screen.
And that it's a subconscious.
You're looking at it every day.
You don't even know that you're looking at it when you're going into different apps
on your phone because it's the background to your phone.
And by the end of the year, it's just more of a reinforcement every single day.
Truly subconsciously, after like a week of seeing it, you're not going to notice that
it's there, but you're going to see that your goals unfold with all the action you're going
to take.
That's crazy.
I never even thought to do that.
That is your real tip.
And that could include having your watch.
Maybe you have a picture of a watch because you would like to care a little bit more about
your workouts and you want to get a fitness tracker and you want to start paying attention
to what your heart rate is doing because it's really about the heart rate.
Or maybe you put that watch up there to be like, Hey, take it off.
And now for your real extra tip of the week.
It's called Watch Me.
James Brown is here, everyone.
What does Watch Me mean?
I'm saying Watch Me, by the way.
Do you want to spell it?
W-A-T-C-H-S-P-A-S-M-E.
What does Watch Me mean?
It's a two-parter.
It means Watch Me, take my watch off for a week.
Take it off for a week.
Try it.
If you like it, continue it.
If you don't, put it back on because maybe you need that those calorie counts or those
step counts to really motivate you because some people do need that and that's okay.
But if you can, take it off.
Take it off for a couple of days.
Watch Me, take it off with the other...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait, wait.
I'm sorry.
Watch Me, take the watch off.
That's not what it's called.
The other part is Watch Me.
Now track what you do with your watch.
If the watch is what you need to motivate you, track yourself.
Are you loving this class and that's why you're getting more calories?
The joy in this class, you're having so much fun.
Is that why your calories are higher?
I hated this one.
I was not into it.
That's Carly's class.
Definitely not mine.
Did I not push myself hard enough?
Watch Me.
Watch Me, watch my watch.
Now that doesn't mean that you can compare a cardio class to a weightlifting class.
You're going to get two different calories.
But really what it means is to find the joy with or without the watch in your workouts.
Watch Me, watch Me, freaking watch Me.
It took a turn.
I like it though.
That's good.
It's becoming your own metric for your mental headspace with your physical workouts.
I'm going to give you this extra, extra tip.
Do you know how to know if you really got a good workout in?
The way without a watch to know if you're having a really good workout is if you are
unable to hold a conversation while you're working out.
If you're unable to hold a conversation, it's a good workout.
You did a good job.
You don't need a watch to tell you that.
There's no trick.
That's it.
Well?
That was really informative.
I'm very excited we have the chat.
Yeah, I feel like it got deeper than we intended to.
It always does.
When you're talking about the Apple Watch or the Garmin.
The Garmin, the Fitbit.
It ended up with addiction and reality.
There are so many different avenues you can go.
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