For some people, fitness watches are fun and helpful. For me, they fed a need for control that turned toxic fast.
. Seeing the actual numbers was just evidence that I was losing control of yet another part of my life. It was like if I berated myself about it — with hard numbers to back it up! — I could prove that I still had some kind of power.
I don't know if you know this, but being hard on yourself has never actually forced a pandemic to go away or made an injury heal faster or magically turned life back to normal. There were a lot of things I couldn't control — and it'll probably be that way for a while — but one simple, small thing I could do was give it a rest on the fitness tracking.
Currently my Apple Watch and my FitBit are both chilling in their chargers, and that's where they're staying for a while. I might strap one on when I can run again, but even then, I'm not sure; I don't exactly have a race to train for, and going out for a run without any numbers on my mind sounds pretty wonderful.
and calm that comes after a hard workout. You know that simple joy of movement that can't be quantified or tracked on your wrist or sent to you in a notification? I can't wait to feel that again.
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