Ben Today’s healthspan sampler includes why you should have a workout accountability partner, why alcohol is horrible for fitness, and facts about the guy who went 382 days without food. Workout Accountability Partners Starting and keeping a consistent with a workout routine is a challenge. According to a 2019 study done by Strava, most people quit
Using ice packs incorrectly may be detrimental to your performance. This week’s content looks at how to properly cool yourself down. Read on to find out how to gain a performance edge by cooling down properly. By the end of that month he was doing 300 dips. Here is a professional athlete at peak physical
This week’s content looks at best practices to use when intermittent fasting and how to heal and bulletproof your knees by walking backwards. #1: Starve Yourself Properly (Best Practices for Intermittent Fasting) Time restricted feeding is a beautiful way to create harmony with eating and create harmony with the reward pathways. – Andrew Huberman If
This week’s content looks at how mixing high and low intensity can improve your exercise work capacity and how one man raised his 3 kids to become geniuses. #1: Mix Intensities to Improve Your Aerobic Capacity What we’re doing is actually making you move, but call it recovery… changing the focus not on the intensity
This week’s content looks at how eating more protein can improve your lifespan and how to correctly practice gratitude to get health benefits. #1: Double Your Protein Double Your Life We are not over fat, we are under muscled – Dr Gabriel Lyon The importance of muscle mass is understated. While there is a positive
This week’s content includes how to build good habits and how adding acute stress can improve your life. #1: How to build good habits to accomplish your goals You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Your goal is your desired outcome. Your system is
The Apple Watch is a jack-of-all trades when it comes to a smart watch. You can reply to messages, take phone calls, track your workouts and also do sleep tracking. The fitness tracking aspect of the Apple Watch is one of the main reasons why we like it. Not only does it have a variety of workouts you can track (like outdoor running, hiking, strength training, etc…), but your workouts’ data is stored in Apple Health which can be exported to other apps for further analysis.
Did you know you can use your Apple Watch as a remote shutter to take photos and videos through your iPhone? I started doing this as a way to improve my weightlifting and gymnastics skills without having to rely on someone else to film my activities. With the Apple Watch and my phone I have become a one man film crew and can finally confirm if my squats went “below parallel”.
Follow along and see how you can start doing this if you have an Apple Watch or are thinking of getting one.
Last March I decided to purchase a separate chest strap worn heart rate monitor, specifically the Polar H10 Bluetooth Smart HR Sensor, to use with my Apple Watch when tracking my workouts.
You might be thinking, why would you buy a heart rate monitor when the Apple Watch already tracks heart rate?
I bought the Eufy Smart Scale C1 to replace my old “dumb” scale so I could easily log my weight into Apple Health