Is anyone else annoyed by those watches and phone apps that track your sleep patterns?
I was given a Garmin 920xt watch for my birthday in November, and I started tracking my sleep. At first, I thought it was cool, but I really didn't like wearing a watch to bed at night, so I downloaded a "motion detector" sleep app for my iPhone.
Now I find myself competing in my sleep...literally.
Mark
can we do the sleep competition after the ice cream challenge?
gimme 3 mins and i can be asleep
on the couch before dinner, after dinner, wake up and go to bed...you name it
must be all that washing of my suit at 5:30am
can we do the sleep competition after the ice cream challenge?
gimme 3 mins and i can be asleep
on the couch before dinner, after dinner, wake up and go to bed...you name it
must be all that washing of my suit at 5:30am
LOL. I used to be like that too and once I went to bed someone could have stolen the bed out from under me without waking me up. But not so much as I've gotten older. Now I wake up more, can't always fall back to sleep instantly, and don't know how much restorative sleep I'm really getting. Thinking about one of those watches with sleep and HR monitor and possibly a GPS for running.
Now if I had a chance to set a WR in sleeping, maybe I'd look into my phone's sleep tracking app. ;) But the problem is that even with the technology, shouldn't there be (as in marathon swimming), an impartial observer. Look at th problems that arose in verifying Diana Nyad's swim. Yet I'm not so sure I want any observers in my room while I sleep. If cats are accepted as observers, sure. Otherwise, I guess I'll have to pass up this golden opportunity for fame and fortune. ;)
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I brought my phone with me to bed last night, so that if I woke up, I would just put on my headphones and listen to the latest Podcast from Brenton Ford's "Effortless Swimming" out of Australia. I find his interviews and topics intriguing.
Ironically, I woke up at 3:13AM, put on my headphone, pushed play, and listened to the latest upload: "Escaping Sleep Deprivation." The first suggestion it had, by the way, was DON'T BRING YOUR PHONE TO BED!
I actually found the podcast very interesting, and I would highly recommend the subscription to swimmers out there: Effortless Swimming by Brenton Ford.
