#101: Exercising, me, or it's just my another "ambitious but rubbish" moves?
Yea, a new toy. I finally bought a fitness tracker.
I hung this Huawei Band 4 Pro onto Morgana like this on a certain evening and it tracked that this cat got an average 90 bpm heartbeat and saying it was sleeping the whole time the tracker was on it. Welp :P
Well, as a cheapskate myself, I sure take a looooong time before I finally punch in my credit card number and put in my order for it. Yes, I sure did that.
I've had one eye on this fitness tracker thingy before, but seeing how I do have a lack of exercise in my life, I thought "nah, I probably won't have any use for it" and keep pushing aside the idea of getting one times and times again. Also, at the beginning when this kinda thingy pops up on the market, I feel like they was focusing on it more as a smartwatch - a watch that happens to have a bunch of smartphone function and also happens to have all these sensors to track your movement, health and et cetera. Since I already got a plain old watch myself, I just brush it aside as I don't really need it. I worked hard to save my small allowance money back in my high school days to get enough to buy this Swatch watch, and I wasn't having any idea to get it replaced since it was still working perfectly fine. Yeah, I still remember when these Swatch watch was a thing among my mates back in the day, and before that I was just using those cheapo fake night market "G-Shock" watch and keep exchanging them when the battery runs out. I thought, why not finally getting a proper good watch and use it till I dead, and so I bought one some months before SPM exam.
Fast forward 9 years later after a strap change and 3 battery replacement later, MCO and lockdown happen and I'm super bored. Life wasn't super exciting and fitness wasn't super good. Finally the thought of "shit, gotta do something about this" came and that idea of getting that fitness tracker finally hits.
Gotta say, the lack of exercise was really bad since I've finished with my student year and starting that office working life. It was already bad back when working at office was still a thing - 9-to-6 job was more like 8-to-9 working life with those traffic to office and back home during the weekdays, and my fitness was so lacking that I can't do much but sleeping half my weekend off to recover back those lost energy. So, exercise when, I wonder?
And then the c-thing came about and working from home was finally a fad all over the world. No more need to face traffic every morning and night, but things didn't change much for me as I fell into the trap of maximizing sleep as much as I can haha. Yea, I failed to establish a proper morning and night routine, and the bad spiral continues and looping on day after day. Workload was a lot during the day, and nighttime was the only time I got off the laptop screen so I spend most of it on TV screen and YouTube till very late. Even without nothing to watch, my mind was unconsciously refused to sleep - "this is my relaxing time off work, I gotta maximize the time I spend here" instead of getting sleep to rest. Coz of how late I went to sleep, I was very much very sleepy after fajr and decided to just go back to sleep to at least complete that 6 hours minimum sleep time. And so, I went back to sleep until 9am before finally wake up and straight away switching on the laptop to start work for the day. Good morning then was completely off and broken.
And so, I decided to stop all this. I need something to at least bring me back to a more healthy lifestyle than what I have above, and I thought fitness tracker might be just what I need for it.
It kinda worked, so far. I mean, it does feels good to get to see how much I've exercise each time after a running session ends, and the thought of "next time, I wanna run a bit farther than this" keeps coming after that. Y'know, like doing something, anything, and getting any sort of feedback afterwards - you just feel sort of fulfilment and accomplishment with that feedback. With this fitness tracker, I got that feedback - I know how many kilometer I've done my running, I know how much I've exercise based on the measurement of my heart beat, and it measured how much calories I've burned too, not that I really need it. Feels good to see all these data, and then comes the feeling of wanting to get more data and so I'll keep doing exercise for it.
At least, I felt that a good spiral, a good routine is coming after having this fitness tracker.
Yeah, most of the measurement coming out of this device is overestimate at best, but it's alright. Especially those sleep tracking that this thing can do. I don't need a very precise, very accurate data for my sleep analysis - I believe I don't have any sickness that deemed to have those accurate data - but it estimated that I have only around 30 minutes of deep sleep during the night is just good enough. At least there's some sort of measurement that I got, and with it I can get more motivation to improve my sleep quality. At least, that's a step into getting a better night sleep. At least, that can give me the motivation to sleep rather than spending the night late to do something other than work as a façade of having a rest time.
Being a cheapskate again, yeah, this device might be unnecessary, but I gotta say it's a good motivator for me to have a better lifestyle. At least for me myself as how I've run a not good lifestyle I've talked about on the above.
As for now, I've started to do running at least once a week because of this fitness tracker. At least that's something, yea. Moving forward, I do hope that I can keep up doing these exercise, and keep improving upon it. I plan to do a short run in every other morning, hopefully I can do that and keep improving my lifestyle, my fitness. A fit body is never a bad thing, no?
