I am not good at regularly posting to this photo blog. So I’m not going to - that’s fine. This is basically going to be me talking into the darkness. I realize fully that I’m the only one paying attention to anything on here, and that’s absolutely fine. Sometimes I need something slightly more long form than a twitter thread, so this is going to start being just a blog about whatever I’m into. Which is fine with me. It’ll still have photo stuff, because I’m always doing photo stuff - I mean next week we’re heading to Alaska and Denali to explore and see some amazing things. Hopefully I’ve got some interesting things to show when I get back.
Anyway.
A big push for me in the last little while has been improving my health and fitness. So I’m probably going to talk about that a fair bit on this blog. I’m not here for advice, and I’m not here to say that I’m some sort of expert. As someone that used to be fit, and now decidedly isn’t, this is simply going to be the outlet to vent some frustrations and some things I’m trying and learning from. I will probably also talk quite a bit about shoes. Don’t get me started right now.
I’m a numbers person. I love data, analyzing trends, finding small things I can change to make the sum of the bigger picture progress and develop. While the scale seems very stingy with decreasing it’s number, I’m looking for numbers. I’m looking for things that I can track and things I can point to as small successes along my way. Apple Health, the Apple Watch Series 4, and the activities app have been massive data accumulators for me. The biggest (and only, to be fair) complaint I have, is that while using the iPhone and Apple Watch is fine for just checking some numbers and looking at quick things, I’d love to look more into them and dig deeper. All of that, I feel like using my iPad Pro would be fantastic for. I realize that it’s probably a niche market, but it couldn’t possibly be that difficult to bring some of these features to a bigger screen.
I was told that Strava is a good app, that has a robust online presence with a lot of good analysis options and information, but it doesn’t seem to integrate terribly well with Apple’s activities app. I guess that’s the issue here, I want to have some native fitness information to dig into on my iPad. Strava is fine for when I’m actually running, but if I’m swimming (which is apparently something I do now) or working out in the gym it doesn’t really calculate the data as well as the Apple native stuff does on the watch.
If you have good options, please let me know. I also just grabbed the premium version of Nike Fitness Club, so hopefully I have a bit more variety in my workouts.
Anyway, that’s what I’m doing lately. If you read all of that rambling, I’m impressed with your ability to translate my incoherent thoughts into something actually reasonable. .