Crossfit with Apple Watch

I am short on time, but figured I'd go ahead and post some crossfit/apple watch feedback, as I've searched the term 2754 times and maybe someone will appreciate it (-:   I'm not a science person, or a kinesiologist (though I will be a PE teacher soon!!) so this is just normal-type human opinion.

First wod with #applewatch. Not super impressed with the visual feedback but I'll keep exploring. Bottom #s are lifts, #sevenminutesofburpees start at the 141 heart rate. And for 64 minutes of warmup lifting and burpee hell, I'm so glad #crossfit isn't about a measly 250 calories! #Vidstitch

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Day 1 - Not as impressed as I could be, but I think it's user knowledge, and app development, more than the watch.

Basic notes:

WARM UP
I did a 1000 M row warm up, with an eye on "calories".  Based on Consumer Reports review of the Watch, the calories should be pretty on target...which confirms the fact that the Concept 2 is WAY off.

Watch - 20 calories
Rower - 57 calories
Not caring about calories - priceless. (-:

Interestingly, my heart rate was 130 after doing a moderate warm up with the row, PVC work, kb swings and push ups.  I didn't feel taxed.

LIFTING
I then did 5 x 3 quick squat snatches, at 75%.  Now, I get that this might be more of a heart rate boost if my 75% were 100 plus pounds, but at 65#, I was hitting around 113 bpm with each set.  Using the Workout app, you can choose to see heart rate, calories, or time elapsed.  It's pretty easy to just raise your arm and see the # or just work out and review the data after.

Negative - the heart rate tracking is supposedly pretty accurate, but it only takes it every 15 seconds or so.  And a quick power lift doesn't take too long.  Additionally, if you know more about science than I do, and want to measure your recovery in quick time, it could be a challenge.

I have tender sensitive baby wrists, and typically do a set or two with no wrist wraps, and then add them. I tried moving the watch above the wraps, and I didn't feel like the reading was accurate (it was still skin to skin, just high on my wrist.  I then moved it to where it was closer to my hand, and got more variation in the numbers.  I suggest more toward the hand, but again, my weight is less than many, and it may just get in the way.

METCON
I figured 7 Minutes of Burpees would be a decent wod so far as heart rate goes, and it was day 3, last bit before a needed rest day, so I didn't want to push a barbell wod.  I worked steadily (unbroken for the full 7 minutes) and hit 141 bpm in the first 15 seconds, but hung out between 130-120.   I feel like that's lower than I'd like, but my speed was impacted by Annie on Monday soreness, and it might have kept my met con down.

So far as watch goes - at some point, my grunting must have sounded like Siri, because she popped up and I couldn't see the time toward the end.  (Dumb on my part, should have set another timer!)  So I ended up trying to swipe and change while burpee-ing.  That was annoying.  Maybe there's a way to lock the screen and I just haven't found it yet, but if not, I'd like that.

FTR - I did 89 burpees.  Dang swiping.

OVERALL
There has to be a better presentation of information, or a better app to use alongside Workout.  I need a pie chart or something.  If anyone knows of anything, let me know.
I like the visual feedback during a Wod, but the end data presentation is bleh.  I feel like it measured what I'd like measured for the most part, but I look forward to development of CrossFit centric third party apps.   Right now, it shows up as only "other" and theres a lot of progress to be made there.

Sugar Detox Day 1

1 January 2012

Today was a no WOD kind of day. Not intentionally, however, I made the mistake of discovering tomorrow’s and the Um, are you kidding me? factor made any notion of a taxing workout vanish.   I'm learning quick that Hero WODs suck.  

Monday is a “Holiday Schedule” at the box, which means, no regular class times.  Instead we sign up for times. This is fine, except, I usually work out in the morning, when very few people are there. When there are a lot of people, things have to be shared.  Because I still need to use the training bar (15lbs) on a few lifts, well, maybe most, this isn’t so hot for me.  Last time, I ended up completely short changing myself on squats because of this and I didn’t want to do that again.  I’ll have to be more vocal this time perhaps, or maybe just try harder.

Also, in my regular class, I’m very much the weakling (said with love and pride that I'm less a weakling every day) and everyone already knows that.   It’s not a big deal, and clearly not a deal breaker, as I am signed up, it’s just something that makes me a little aprehensive about going.  

As if THIS isn’t enough:

Tomorrow's WOD:

"Hidalgo"

For time:

Run 2 miles

Rest 2 minutes

20 Squat Cleans (135/95 lbs.)

20 Box Jumps (24/20")

20 Overhead Walking Lunges (45/25 lbs.)

20 Box Jumps (24/20")

20 Squat Cleans (135/95 lbs.)

Rest 2 minutes

Run 2 miles

U.S. Army First Lieutenant Daren M. Hidalgo, 24, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, assigned to 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, based in Vilseck, Germany, died on February 20, 2011, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. Two weeks prior to his death, he was hit by an earlier improvised explosive device. Despite his injuries, he stayed in country and on patrols rather than return home. He is survived by his father Jorge, mother Andrea, brothers Miles and Jared, and sister Carmen.

What I ate:

Breakfast - Leftover steak from Outback (6oz), broccoli - 1/2 cup because baby e  likes to steal bock-ee.  Coffee with Splenda, canned Coconut Milk and Cinnamon.

Snack - Coffee with heavy cream, and splenda. (Starbucks with a friend)

Lunch - Chicken Tenders (2), cooked in skillet with bell peppers, and more brocolli.

Snack - Celery with a mix of Almond Butter and Coconut Butter.  More than I needed, but Charlie and I were both starving after lunch with the only protein source in the house being fish or tuna fish.  It was yummy, filling, fat.

Dinner - Ham 3-4 oz, Pumpkin-Coconut mash (added Honey, but excused it by the fact that this was our “starchy” side dish to go with the ham, as opposed to any kind of dessert), grilled Zucchinni, more Broccoli, but this one was in a fun processed butter sauce because I grabbed the wrong bag at the store.  

Dessert - Coffee with splenda and coconut milk.

Clearly some things I could have done better, but not much a trip to the grocery store won’t fix.   Coffee consumption went way up, and I only had two bottles of water (total of 48oz).  

I will see you guys tomorrow, assuming I survive.   I am not scared of the 2 mile run.  I’m not even technically scared of the 2 miles before 2 after, though my straight through 5 mile time is 1 hour, and I don’t know if  I can make it in the hour we’ll have to do it.  It’s the stuff in between!  I’ve been really disappointed with my squats.  I am much weaker at these than I should be.  Is this because I’m not doing it right, because I really am that weak, or because I’m freaking scared of dropping the bar?   My previous squat clean was 43/45 #, but I think my squats were really too shallow to count.  Today, I’ll be thinking about wanting to finish that second run, and I don’t imagine I’ll be willing to sacrifice too much time on the squat cleans.   The clean is great, too light really, but getting over the fear of falling on my behind in that squat is blah.