My Journey With Health And Fitness -Ignoring My Fitbit

Today was the end of week 3 of strength training and it was deadlift day. Last week I had managed to slightly increase my maximum from 105lbs to 110lbs. This week, with the help of a very encouraging partner, I really decided to push myself. During the last exercise I managed to lift 130lbs! Yes, that last lift was a bit tough but I got through it. Can’t wait to see what I pull of next week.

I have one of those Fitbit Premium apps that monitors everything. I really like to check how I do in terms of steps, calories, distance, cardio minutes, sleep (not usually very good) and other health indicators. These all help me determine how hard I need to push myself (really, 6 days a week I push myself pretty hard) and they often work as a motivator. I’ve been doing this for 5 years now and normally it helps me stay on track.

Yesterday however, I got really pissed off at my Fitbit and basically ignored it for the day. I checked it first thing in the morning and it told me I was not training hard enough and was at risk of losing some of my fitness level. It told me I needed to up my cardio load target for the day to between 269 and 369. Cardio load is a personalized score that lets you know how hard you pushed your heart. Thursday I had the same target but missed it by 12 points which is no big deal according to me but Fitbit seems to disagree.

The reason this kind of ticked me off is because Thursday I walked 36,000 steps or 24km. I clocked 485 zone minutes (heart in active or peak zone with peak zone counting as double). I did a total of 5 hours of intense activity! How in the hell could I be at risk of losing some of my fitness level?

So I took a day off of Fitbit yesterday and just focused on my personal goals. Funny, yesterday was my best day of the week and I am proud of how hard I worked. Well that and deadlifting 130lbs today 🙂