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Anyone ditched wearable tech?

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Garmindecisions · 20/11/2023 18:55

For the past 4 years I’ve had a garmin for all my runs and an Apple Watch for other exercise & just for all the useful features (Apple Pay, controlling Spotify etc)

Anyway I’m running fine but my pb days are probably behind me.

I stopped posting anything to strava about 2 years ago. This helped comparison being the thief of joy. Garmin connect has been useful but I’m wondering what the point is really.

I was looking on eBay and could sell both watches easy enough.

Has Anyone done this? Why am I tracking my stats? What am I doing with this info? Is it helping my mental health really??

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Garmindecisions · 20/11/2023 19:25

Ooh interesting. Yes I’ve never tracked my sleep. What a horrible metric.

a friend of mine was woken by an alert about a heart rate change. It was just a glitch but really scared her (and ruined that nights sleep!)

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Diversion · 20/11/2023 19:08

I was given a watch by a friend who had replaced theirs with a more up to date one. It counted my steps and monitored my sleep. I got rid after about 3 months. Getting stressed that I had only 5 hours of sleep which is quite usual for me as I rarely sleep really well and that I had only done 5000 steps that day really did not do me any good at all. Am I sleeping better? No. Do I have days when I still do 5000 steps? Yes. Am I stressing about it now? No

SuspiciousLampshade · 20/11/2023 19:02

I got a normal bog standard watch that I loved the look of last summer, after my Garmin died on me. Best decision I’ve ever made. Every now and then after a long walk I wonder how many steps I’ve done but now I exercise for myself rather than for the ability to share it on Strava, I don’t feel bad not getting up and moving every hour, and I’m much more content with my activity level (but I’m generally pretty active anyway - I’m sure for some it’s a good motivator if they need to get a kick up the butt to move)

If I feel like tracking a run or whatever I just use the GPS on my phone in Nike Run Club for example. :)

Naimee87 · 20/11/2023 18:57

Good for you! No all those statistics are rubbish for your mental health. Exercise because you love it not because you want to be in constant competition with yourself! Chuck it all away i say.

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