Disclaimer: I am using a Enduro 2, and not a Fenix watch. But i hope that this subreddit can give pointers anyway.
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So, i am beginning to use the "daily workout" suggestion from my watch. The last 3 out of 4 runs have been 32 min rest run with the pace 6:55/km. which is very slow for me.
Today, i did the same run, and was feeling very strong through the run with no issues at all. But the watch still gave me a 72 hour rest time!!! WTF? For 30 min run on the edge to walking?
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I have to admit, that running is my third sport. I do kettlebells workouts 3 times a week and ERG row 3 times a week. But come on. 72 hour rest period? Even though i do alot of training, i still have to work very hard to get my training status from "status quo" to "productive"
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Is there any thing i can do to make this more realistic?

So, i am beginning to use the "daily workout" suggestion from my watch. The last 3 out of 4 runs have been 32 min rest run with the pace 6:55/km. which is very slow for me.
Today, i did the same run, and was feeling very strong through the run with no issues at all. But the watch still gave me a 72 hour rest time!!! WTF? For 30 min run on the edge to walking?
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I have to admit, that running is my third sport. I do kettlebells workouts 3 times a week and ERG row 3 times a week. But come on. 72 hour rest period? Even though i do alot of training, i still have to work very hard to get my training status from "status quo" to "productive"
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Is there any thing i can do to make this more realistic?

So, i am beginning to use the "daily workout" suggestion from my watch. The last 3 out of 4 runs have been 32 min rest run with the pace 6:55/km. which is very slow for me.
Today, i did the same run, and was feeling very strong through the run with no issues at all. But the watch still gave me a 72 hour rest time!!! WTF? For 30 min run on the edge to walking?
​
I have to admit, that running is my third sport. I do kettlebells workouts 3 times a week and ERG row 3 times a week. But come on. 72 hour rest period? Even though i do alot of training, i still have to work very hard to get my training status from "status quo" to "productive"
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Is there any thing i can do to make this more realistic?

Technology has evolved the day to day life of individuals as it has completely changed the way of living and doing business. One of the modern trends and major resources in this is, of course, the use of mobile applications. Technology makes many things better and easier. Health and Fitness are no exception. Apps and smartphones have become a considerable part of today's culture and overruling everyone's life with their ease of use and significant features.

"How do mobile health and fitness apps help the user?" 

The market is flooded with numerous health and fitness apps each offering different advantages. A person aspiring to become more fit can choose from among these options. Let us take a look at how mobile apps help us stay in shape.
• Apps have made fitness routines more affordable and accessible:
You no longer need to go hunting for a yoga class or gym in your neighborhood or hire costly personal trainers to lose weight. Just look up a suitable app that meets your needs, install it on your Smartphone or Android and start pumping. Distance and money can no longer prevent people from exercising.
• Set realistic fitness goals:
There are many of us who aspire to look like supermodels regardless of our lifestyles. We may be trapped in sedentary lifestyles and jobs which offer little or no opportunities for fitness. Setting up an unreachable goal at the beginning of our workout regime can be the catalyst for starting the fitness regime, but is hardly sustainable. Apps like Couch to 5K help to set up realistic goals within our desired time frame. They take us to the next level of exercise only after we achieve the previous target. This helps in sustaining our exercise regime which is the hardest challenge for beginners!
• Apps help to monitor your workout routines:
There are mobile apps that will need you to put data like your calorie intake, your daily routine, your fitness regime, and your fitness goals. They will monitor your calorie intake and calories burnt throughout the day. They will offer encouraging comments throughout your workout regime and tell you how to perform a particular exercise. Myfitnesspal and Edmundo Sports Tracker are apps that store our personal workout history and motivate us to outdo our best performance.
Running apps like Runtastic help us to see our running progress. If you are bored of your running workout, you may use apps like Zombies run to change your regime and make it more interesting. This app turns your daily runs into epic missions. Each run you go on is like an episode of a zombie show and you’re the main character. All you need to do to get started is to start a mission and listen to the story as you run. What makes it more exciting is that you hear zombie sounds as you run and the only way to get away from them is to get moving. Often we feel dehydrated while running. There is an app to monitor your water intake as well! It’s called Waterlogged and it pushes you to take water at regular intervals during your run.
• Offer new ideas for your workout regime:
Apps like Jefit and Body fitness are advanced apps that suggest new resistance training workouts for specific muscles in our body. The Yoga app and Tai Chi are more apps that give specific pictures, instructions, and videos to improve your workout and stretch-on-the-go.
• Monitor our diet and suggest healthy methods of cooking:
It is well-accepted fact that for losing weight and improving our overall health, diet is as important a factor as our fitness regimes. If you are concerned about the food you are eating, there is no shortage of apps to advice you about healthy options of food to choose, the nearest dietary store or restaurant, healthy methods of cooking a particular foodstuff and calculate the number of calories you consumed and need to burn! MyNetDiary and CalorieCounter are two popular apps in this category.
• Apps help us to stay connected with people having the same fitness goals:
Some health apps like iMapMyRide, FitGang, and iMapMyFitness are linked to social networking sites like Facebook. They help us to connect with people having the same fitness goals and following the same fitness regimes. This helps to build an inspiring community of health lovers and even offer healthy competition among the members.
"So, what are you waiting for? Just download a suitable app and start working out."

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The family went to the fair today. I spent MAYBE an hour at most with my little guy in the baby chest rig. My back is screaming. I feel it throbbing as I lay in bed.
I’ve always wanted to get fit for weight management and physical appearance reasons. But I’ve never stuck to it.
I’m not horribly over weight, but I’m bigger than I ought for my height. It’s now occurring to me that if I can’t keep up with my six month old, how on earth will I keep up with a toddler?! Or a 5 year old?? And heck my wife is pregnant again, what am I gonna do with TWO who want to play?
I have a new real motivation to get in shape outside of self gain. What kinds of workouts are cohesive with helping with a baby at the same time?

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Context: I met a girl at a club in January, and we started seeing each other two or so weeks later. Where we live, it's normal to unofficially date for a while before one person (typically the man) asks their partner to officially date. Essentially we were "dating" for almost four months; I met her parents, spent a lot of time with her, and was about to officially ask her to date me before the incident in question. Our relationship was very stable up until this point with no big arguments, grudges, or other incidents of infidelity, and I was looking to introduce her to my family as well. We also go to the same uni where she is one semester below me and both our classes are quite large (90-100 students each). Additionally, our uni does not offer dorms, so both of us live with our parents in the same city since our families already live here.
First off, I'd like to start by saying that I understand that both in terms of the infidelity in question and the time my ex and I were together, this isn't as serious as some of the other posts related to infidelity. That being said, for reasons I'll explain later on, I don't have anyone in my life who knows the full context of the situation and I also need a place to get all of it off my chest, so here we go. This is my first-ever post, so I apologize in advance if this is too long or hard to read, and there's a TL;DR at the bottom.
The incident in question happened this past Friday (a couple of days after my birthday and a week before our final exams). She went to a bar with her friends before heading to a club where she got drunk and kissed a guy (who we'll call Steve) from her class at uni.
I know 'Steve' is, as she kissed him at a party we both went to right before we became monogamous; a moment I saw myself and nearly made me give up on pursuing the relationship further. She would have occasional run-ins with him between the party and last Friday, but they weren't close, and from what she told me they weren't flirtatious at all during these interactions (which were few and far between). She used to tease me with Steve because in her words he was the only person that affected me from her past and she wasn't interested in him whatsoever.
According to her, the kiss lasted only for a moment and wasn't hot or heavy. As soon as she kissed him she called me crying, told me what happened, and headed home. I was feeling kind of tired and since our exams are coming up this Thursday, I stayed home. I took a quick nap and woke up with her call. She was crying and frantic, so much so that I could barely make out what she was saying and thought someone had forced himself upon her.
I went over to her house where she told me what happened: she had kissed Steve, the same guy that nearly broke us apart before and all it took was for him to insist a little on the kiss for her to go for it. I couldn't wrap my head around it at first; I felt a mix of confusion, anger, and more notably pain and sadness. All I could make out at the time was "I'm going home, I don't know what to say right now. And you tell Steve that I better not see him anywhere outside of campus" That last part sounded very out of character for me, as most people who know me can attest to the fact that I'm very level-headed and kind. That being said, Steve was directly involved in two of the most hurtful moments of my life recently, and he knew that she was seeing someone (even who I was) when he approached her on Friday. My threat was not a sort of macho-esque need to assert myself over him, but rather a warning that I'm not sure I'd be able to control myself if I saw him because he embodies all the anger and pain I currently feel.
As I headed home I was bombarded with messages from her, apologizing and telling me she loves me (something I'd already felt, but that neither of us had mustered the courage to say to each other). I walked into my room and hit my wall several times, leaving bruises on my hands and waking up my dogs and my dad. He came into my room and as I told him what happened he consoled me as I cried and told me I can either forgive her and continue the relationship, or break up. I slept on it and decided that the logical move was to break up.
I went to her house and told her I couldn't forgive her, much less trust her after what had happened. We both cried and talked for about half an hour, and I went home completely broken. I then told my closest friends about it, and after a reinforcement class for one of my subjects, I called them separately. One told me that the situation sucks, but that I should focus my pain to fuel my workouts and that we could get girls if I came to visit him over the summer. Another told me that out of all the people cheating could happen to (including himself), he couldn't believe that it happened to me because in his eyes I'm one of the people who least deserves such a thing to happen to them. Both of them concluded that it wasn't as bad because the relationship wasn't too long and I can look forward to being single again.
As I mentioned previously, no one in my life knows the full context of the relationship; my house is undergoing renovations so I couldn't invite my gf to my house, and my parents wanted to meet with her for the first time without extended family, both of which never coincided in our time together. On top of that, I didn't talk about her much to my friends or family; my family respects my privacy and since all my friends were single during this period and I hadn't had any fights or problems with her, I didn't want to flaunt my relationship on them, as when I was single I'd feel a little bad about myself when my friends told me about how well their relationships were when I'd never had one.
My relationship with my ex was really good, as I mentioned we had no big arguments, but that wasn't because we hadn't encountered hardships, but rather that both of us were able to communicate openly and honestly. We were able to open up about our insecurities and share all sides of our personalities and our quirks. The only thing that bothered me slightly was that she sometimes hung out with a guy she'd kissed somewhat recently, as well as her interactions with Steve. That being said she wasn't close friends with either one of them, I didn't want to be possessive or toxic, and up until that point I had no prior reason to believe she'd be unfaithful so I chalked it up to my own insecurities, and kept it to myself. Since the incident, she's mostly respected my need for space, even if her friends haven't (supposedly not at her request).
Back to the present, I felt absolutely miserable from Friday night to Sunday morning, tossing and turning about what had happened. I woke up on Sunday to some messages from her saying she wrote me a card that I could pick up at her lobby or have a delivery boy bring to my house. I didn't mind heading over there so I picked it up with the doorman and went to a friend's house to study and finish up a final project. I didn't tell anyone about the card, neither did I open it until I headed home. I stayed for around 10 hours in my friend's house wrapping everything up, and while it was a necessary break from all the turmoil, the letter was gnawing at the back of my head the entire time.
As soon as I got home I opened and read the letter. I won't divulge what was said in it, as even though this is an anonymous post I'd still prefer to keep its contents private for me and her. Nevertheless, it was very moving, and it made me reevaluate my decision on top of my continued feelings for her.
All of that brings us to today: I just finished one of the best workouts of my life, listening to my saddest playlist throughout and passing bruise cream on my hands (they've started to hurt when I move them). I thanked her for the letter and told her that regardless of what happens between us, we should talk things out after the end of our exams, as right now we both need to focus on passing our classes.
I feel heartbroken, confused, and hurt, but at the same time I miss her and our time together. She was my first relationship and realistically the first time a girl truly cared for me besides my family and friends (I've never gone past one-night stands or hooking up at parties other than a couple dates). I'm worried that I'd be making a mistake by being with her again, as it goes against most of the advice I've received and I could just be head over heels because this is my first serious relationship. Furthermore, I'm also worried that because of what's happened I'll have trust issues - be it with her or someone else - that'll make things toxic. What should I do?
TL;DR: My girlfriend of four months kissed a guy at a bar. I broke up with her but I'm not sure it was the right decision because of how special our time together was. Should I give her another chance?

So today is my off day and it's my week 1 so what do I do? Is there things I should workout? I do lift but what can I do to improve myself for day 2?

It was the first day of my protein shake diet and I stayed busy all day. Did yard work, picked up, make the dogs some treats. Honestly haven't missed food today, I did almost eat something, but then I remembered. I think this is going to be a great little reset. I'm sure I'll be hangry by the end of the week, but its a fun challenge.
Did my first workout today in 6 weeks. Wow. I am not ready, lol. I did a small eliptical and then some squats and rows. I thought I was dying during my cardio, but I'll work my way back up. Tomorrow I'm going hiking, so that ought to take my mind off of food.
How's everybody?

Use this thread to discuss how your workout went today! What are you thriving at and what are you struggling with? Looking for tips/advice on exercise or diet choices?

Today I tried to bike three times, and I finally got a new Mi Band 7 to replace my old Mi Band 4. However, two out of those three times the distance was stuck at 0.00km, even when restarting both devices after the workout. The only time that distance data was recorded is when I started the biking mode from the app (Zepp Life, in this case). However, I do not want to get out my phone, I just want to start the mode on my watch. The app was open in the foreground in all three cases. I also want to use Mi Fitness soon, because I think that it would be better designed for my new Mi Band, and all of the watchfaces are free.
I also found out that if I press on any of the readouts on the main activity in progress page, the readout changes color. Why is that?

I consistently see my heart rate in the 90-100 BPM range while going on very casual walks/even getting up to use the restroom, I will hit these values.
But today, in the gym, I absolutely destroyed my legs, and was close to gasping for breath for well over 30 minutes. My heart rate was in the 80-100 region! The yellow zone minute? THAT WAS DURING A PLANK, the easiest part of the workout in terms of cardiovascular AND muscular demands. Am I missing something here, or is this thing literally only good for tracking steps?
Thank you.

Positive post for a moment. (28, F, 120lbs) I'm in a flare. It sucks. I've struggled so much in the last 7 months with ALL the constant symptoms that comes with UC. I've have 2 sigmoidoscopies, tried out 5 different meds, had an allergic reaction, started prednisone, attempted to handle all of THOSE side-effects. Lost 20lbs in 3 weeks, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't work, saw doctor after different doctor. Started Entivio, have had two infusions so far, no major changes, but also not getting any worse.
Started working with a dietitian. Hashed out the fine details of my.restricted diet. Gained weight back, maybe too much. 😅 feeling less ill. Got my appetite back. Removed stress from my life. Started getting outdoors more. Mentally feeling better, symptoms still bad, but there is slight improvement now. Today, for the first time in maybe close to a year, I had the energy and motivation to workout. I'm not a big gym person by any means, but I've been soo weak and sooo sick that I could hardly walk around without having to stop and catch my breath. And today, I ran around the block multiple times, getting some much craved exercise, feeling somewhat good.
Feeling somewhat good.
Not a big deal to most people. But this is a small win for me. And I wanted to share the hope and motivation to others. It's the small things.

Hi everyone, I (31M) just started doing zwift and a few days ago I did my first ramp test to start the FTP builder program. It gave me 212W as FTP and my HR went up to 187 during the test.
I did the optional zone benchmarking ride a couple days ago and it felt alright based on the prompts I was given. Today I did the first actual ride which I mistakenly did day 3 (why can't the app show the actual order?!) Day 3 - Foundation and my average HR was 159 and max was 176 which came at the end when I was doing the 100rpm for 5 minutes.
Does this seem too high for something that was supposed to be low intensity Zone 2? I've never measured my max HR but the ramp test was damn tough so I figured my max HR wouldn't be extremely far off what I maxed out at during that ramp test. I don't think any other factors would have played into my HR between today and the other day.
Should I manually lower my FTP? If so, by how much? Or should I just stick with what was given for a few weeks and see if it improves.
Thanks for all the input.

The pain over the past week has been unbearable and I've already been to ER. Everything looked fine but went to UC today cause of chest pain and they said I have Costo. This is one of the most painful experiences I've had. The rib pain, shortness of breath, chest pain, heart palpitations, trouble sleeping. Its deprived me of what I love to do. I cant sing, workout, run or hang out with people cause of this. I'm having trouble sleeping cause of the pain. I'm taking ibuprofen but I dont know what else to do. Someone tell me this gets better, its creating anxiety with me and all I want to do is cry all day.