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I would, but for a different job just for sustenance. I don’t love my job, but it isn’t a total grind either. I’m working because it pays. I live in a developing country and would use a good chunk of the $10 million (if I had it) to get out to, preferably, an English speaking developed country (it’s not as easy even then). Nevertheless, I think this could be a life changing amount (positive or negative) for most people around the world.

Do you use it for workouts, especially for longer periods everyday? I’m a constant Apple Watch user and workout everyday, but I do find the battery life lacking when I’m out on hikes for a few hours. My watch is only a few years old and is supported for watchOS upgrades.

My guess is that the sensors use a lot of energy (even when the display is normally off) and that the longer one uses it for workouts within a day (with the sensors continuously on [1]) and the older the watch is, the lower the battery life.

[1]: there is a setting to in the workout app to reduce the frequency of GPS and heart rate readings during walking, running and hiking workouts when low power mode is also turned on

I love my Apple Watch (it’s a few years old) and depend on it everyday to track things and keep me motivated to exercise and move. I do have to charge it for nearly an hour everyday, though like others have said I would prefer longer battery life (as opposed to getting a bigger and more expensive one like Apple Watch Ultra).

I wouldn’t be exaggerating when I say that it’s changed my life for the better. At the same time, I personally know people who have it but aren’t used to it or don’t use it for what it does best.

For anyone starting out, there is a bit of a hump to get over as you get some technique (I just used YouTube videos and feel).

Are you saying you learned to swim from YouTube videos and applying those lessons? Any recommendations on videos or playlists?

I’m confused. What if none of the tones or sliders match the sound of my tinnitus? Mine is a very low frequency hum or buzz. I find all the sliders on this page to be a high frequency sound.

It depends. But as GP also said, it can be because one is not exercising (that part of the body) regularly. Anecdotally, I have seen that soreness is not really observed when exercising regularly. Some aches and a little fatigue? Probably. But not really muscle soreness.

I just figured that I couldn't be dehydrated if I wasn't thirsty

This is what I learned, but from others online. I also learned that sometimes our body/mind may mistake thirst for hunger and we may end up eating some food instead of just drinking water (this is generalizing things a bit). This made me a little more aware of what I think of as hunger signals and I started tracking water intake (other than from food) everyday.

BTW, a tiny nitpick: it’s “led”, not “lead”, when you talking about the past.

I asked one of my teammembers – what’s up with that? “Oh, you know, there’s a release coming up soon, nobody wants to give an impression that they’re dilly-dallying around instead of working.”

This is what I’d worry about too. Apart from this, I don’t know how the chats will be used, who else might have some kind of access to those (IT, HR), etc. The pervasive monitoring of all network traffic makes it all seem like always being under the view of a panopticon.

I love working remote and don’t really want to go to the office (a tiring commute is one of the reasons; not having as much flexibility is another). But I’d be wary of off topic channels on Slack or Teams or any company owned/managed platform.

The disadvantage of feature branching is that it's very easy for management to cut costs on testing.

Have to agree with this. In a large (lower than 2/3rd in the Fortune 500 list) company with cost cutting as a constant mantra, our ever shrinking team hasn’t had a testing/QA team for several years. We never got to automating a lot of tests either. The developers create something and test it manually as per their limited knowledge. Then it’s the end users who do the bulk of the testing.

For my life workflow, I pay for these because they add a lot of value for me:

• Infuse, from Firecore (probably the best video player on Apple TV, iOS, iPadOS and macOS — you can throw almost any format at it)

• Owl, by Beonex (it’s a Mozilla Thunderbird extension that connects to MS Exchange and costs $10 a year)

• Bvckup 2 (Windows backup software) — this gets cheaper on renewals

On services:

• Apple Fitness+ (annual subscription is a lot cheaper than monthly), one of the best things that keeps me working out regularly

• Posteo.de for emails

Congrats on this launch! I love that there is no data tracking and collection outside of the device (it’s always a plus point). However, after downloading the app, I don’t understand the following in the Setup menu screens. Please look at these from a newbie perspective.

1. Time Period — not sure what this refers to. Why is the maximum only 30 days or one month? I think some text to explain that screen would help.

2. Resting Heart Rate — I don’t know what to choose and there is no information or link to sources that could help decide.

3. Metrics and Goals — what time period are those goals over? Is that related to the Time Period setting? Or is it weekly? Why are there goals and toggles for “Vigorous Exercise” and “Moderate Exercise” in addition to the zone wise toggles? How do these overlap with the zones? Again, reducing the goals and toggles and/or adding text and/or reorganizing this may help (for example, “Vigorous Exercise” could just be a heading for zone 5 and zone 4, “Moderate Exercise” could just be a heading for zone 3 and zone 2 — I don’t know if this even makes sense).

As someone else said, an onboarding flow with explanations and choices for settings could really help (and the user could be instructed that if needed, they can change these in settings later).

Looking at my “Vigorous Exercise” number on the main screen, I don’t know if I should aim to increase it or not. Some guidance on what goals to aim for, with the caveat that the user should consult a medical professional to decide on exercises appropriate for them, would also be useful.

Edit: I see that there’s some information in the Help & FAQ and About pages linked from the i (information) button, but it doesn’t cover everything from my feedback above. I still think these should be in the onboarding flow and easily accessible again within the app (without opening a web page).

But those who were least round were also at elevated risk of death: People with B.R.I. scores under 3.41 also faced a mortality risk that was 25 percent higher than those in the midrange, the study found.

The paper’s authors suggested the lower scores, seen mostly in those 65 and older, might have reflected malnutrition, muscle atrophy or inactivity.

“B.M.I. cannot distinguish body fat from muscle mass,” Wenquan Niu, who works at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing and was a senior author of the paper, wrote in an email. “For any given B.M.I., fat distribution and body composition can vary dramatically.”

So, if I understand it right, BMI cannot distinguish body fat from muscle mass and BRI can’t distinguish malnutrition or inactivity. This would mean that whichever metric you choose, you should look at it as well as beyond it.

On the same topic, the formula for BMI is a simple one (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) that you could calculate it on a simple calculator.

The formula for BRI is more complex: [1]

BRI was calculated as 364.2 − 365.5 × √(1 − [waist circumference in centimeters / 2π]² / [0.5 × height in centimeters]²), according to the formula developed by Thomas et al.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

This is not answered in your FAQ: any plans for an Apple Watch app with a complication to show something and/or launch it? I presume how it would work with the watch would be different from how it works with the phone.

I hate exercising most of the time. But I realized that it’s something that helps with health (when done optimally) and must be done. I push myself to exercise every single day, even if it means doing some lighter variations of yoga.

What’s important is figuring out what kind of activities you may like or manage to get into (going to the gym, running, group fitness, video based classes, etc.).

I’ve never been able to follow a routine by myself. What works for me are video based workouts where I don’t feel as if I’m doing it alone and I also get a good variety.

Another thing that helped me a lot is getting an Apple Watch and closing the rings everyday honestly. There are three activity rings to close each day — one for activity, one for exercise minutes and one for standing and moving a bit each hour. You can set each ring to whatever levels you’re comfortable with (increasing or decreasing or keeping it the same). You don’t need to keep going up or competing with others. The longer you keep your “streak”, the more motivating it is to keep it going.

If you like video workouts, check out the free Nike Training Club app. There are various other apps with free workouts.

If you get a new Apple Watch, you would also get a free trial of Apple’s Fitness+ service.

Apart from this, in the past I’ve also very much enjoyed game based workouts like Wii Fit Plus, Ring Fit Adventure for Nintendo Switch, etc.

A good starting target is getting moderate to intense exercise for about 30 minutes a day.

I wonder how it estimates VO2Max and how often depending on the model. On my Series 3, it seems to make a data point two or three times a month and it’s concerning to me because it seems like it isn’t trending up even though I have started to do more cardio exercises.

The description in the Health App under Cardio Fitness (the one that shows VO2 Max) says that it measure it only for outdoor walks, hikes and runs. If you don’t do these outdoor activities, it won’t measure or record VO2 Max. I’ve seen this reflected in my measurements. I do HIIT and cardio workouts at home, and it certainly doesn’t measure or record VO2 Max.

For me, with tinnitus in one ear (buzzing), what helps is moving (and stretching) the jaw downwards and sideways away from that ear. The jaw bone on the side with tinnitus also makes a low cracking noise every time I make this move. Keeping my jaw in that weird position (downwards and sideways) turns off the buzzing many a times. But it’s temporary. It’s also not easy to keep the jaw in that tensed position for a long time. On the other hand, keeping my jaws relaxed does not make it better or worse.

I’d love to know if there are any videos of exercises that could help reduce or cure this form of tinnitus.

Here's a very interesting study about how manual osteopathy on the temporal bones could help the auditory nerve/tinnitus. It's been a huge relief for me.

https://norcaloa.com/CAOT/articles-in-press/CAOT-101018

Is this something that only a medical professional should do? If not, I’d love to see a video of this. I can’t figure out from the figures what one is supposed to do.

I don’t know how good it is for the brain, but I put myself to exercise every single day even though most of the days I’m not in the mood. If I could be healthy or healthier without exercising, I’d very likely choose that. But I know that’s not possible, at least for me. Yet, I’ve been exercising for several years now without a break. I still don’t look forward to it. It’s not a lot. It’s just about 45 minutes a day. I just workout at home following video instructions (I get distracted or bored otherwise).

There are three things that made a difference: a) realizing that exercise can potentially make a positive difference to health [1] and that not exercising would turn out be a bigger waste of time in the future, b) getting an Apple Watch and closing the rings everyday [2], and workouts (with apps) on video by instructors so that I don’t get bored and keep looking at the time or figure out what exercises I should do. [3]

[1]: no guarantees because of complex factors like genetics, stress, environment, etc.

[2]: there was a brief period where the addiction to close the rings was done by just letting the watch be in workout mode without me working out, but that kind of lying to myself got boring too.

[3]: I know there are several programs with instructions and progressions that are freely available, but I get distracted and bored if I have to do something by myself and there’s no audiovisual guidance. I don’t like going to a gym either.

I've tried to eliminate single-use plastic from most of my life. It's incredibly hard.

I’ve tried too, and I agree that it is very hard. I rarely buy packaged and ready-to-eat food products, which eliminates a lot of plastic. But still there’s so much plastic when buying grocery and produce. Buying grains or other items from loose bins means insects, lower quality and what not. I’m happier with the lower plastic though.

For me, my hips start hurting after a run. My shoes are relatively new and I’m running on paved pathways or surfaces that are not too uneven. After learning just a little bit, I don’t try to take long strides, I don’t try the “heel strike” approach, etc. But running is quite difficult for me, both during and after. I’d really appreciate tips on avoiding the hip pain (I do some yoga too for the hips, hip flexors, quads, etc.).

I’m feeling some envy right now. I’ve tried running…or rather, walks and runs interspersed, at least once a week or more often. But my heart rate shoots up even at a moderate pace of 5mi/h (7.5km/h) to around 140bpm or higher (I’m 50 years old). I just can’t run (actually jog) continuously for more than one minute before breaking into a walk. Otherwise, I workout everyday, mostly cardio and some strength for at least 45 minutes a day, every single day. My weight is in the normal BMI range. I don’t know if this is how it is to be.