Episode 73: Is Your Fitness Tracker Controlling Your Life?

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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah dive into the popular accessory, fitness trackers. Have you ever felt like you couldn’t leave the house without your Apple Watch? Couldn’t complete a workout without your Garmin? Do you need a fitness tracker to be “healthy”? Tune into this episode to learn about the pros/cons of fitness trackers and if you need one!

Participant #1:
I'm Emily. And I'm Hannah. We are best friends and dietitians. We have a goal of challenging nutrition misinformation and fitness trends with an evidence-based approach episode. We will dish up our thoughts about the latest facts on a popular health related topic. Where are the Up-Beet Dietitians!

Participant #1:
Hello everybody. Welcome back to a brand new podcast. Hello everyone. We are so excited to talk to you about today's topic. This has been around for quite a bit now. We've got a lot of questions on it but we're going to be talking about Apple Watches and fitness trackers, fitbits, Garmins, maybe even Whoops. All these different kind of more. Do you know it? No, whoop? No, it's like the new thing. Oh God. Oh my gosh. I don't really understand it so I probably won't speak on it that much honestly. But I do know it is trending more recently. So definitely check it out. I also like the name Loop. That's pretty cool a lot. Yeah, that's very fun. But we're going to be talking about the pros and cons of fitness trackers and then kind of our final thoughts as we always like to end our videos. We got a couple of pros. It's mostly going to be cons today. We've got a few pros because they can be useful and we'll kind of explain why and how, but it's more so going to be us talking about how they can be a slippery slope for some people. And again, we'll say it a million times today, but if they work for you and you don't experience any of these cool, keep using it. But we're like more so raising awareness to those who don't maybe even notice that the watch is leading to some issues and kind of how to steer clear from that kind of thing. Yeah, we're going to look at both sides of it as always. So let's talk about the pros. So first pro of fitness trackers is they can be very motivating. What is that? They can be very motivating to get in some type of movement or increase your amounts of movement. They're typically sending you either specific goals for you to hit either like time wise or let's hit this many days of consecutive exercise or just kind of getting you to remember like hey, I'm wearing this tracker may as look at some more movement in it's. Good for that. If maybe you needed some external motivation, it's there for that. Yeah, exactly. It can be helpful in that way for sure. Yes. And it can also increase your awareness maybe if you didn't really realize how sedentary you work and help you like notice that kind of thing. Because we of course do know that being more active is generally going to be a good thing. I have been seeing a lot on TikTok and such that when we say it's okay to rest or like, oh, but no, it's so important to exercise and get your body active and go to the gym and, like yeah, that's all true, but it doesn't mean you have to be a slate to the gym and be in there like, seven days a week. No, exactly. We're talking about rest days. We're not saying like rest ever exercise ever again. Yeah, like exercise is bad. No, it's give your body some break to recover. It needs to recover. So like these apps can help you if you didn't quite realize how sudden tear you were being. It could perhaps show you, oh, I actually do only get like 400 steps a day. How can I improve that and kind of increase the awareness? Yes. I feel like it's especially nice. A lot of desk jobs, we don't really realize how long we're sitting for. So I know I can speak best upon like Apple Watches since I have one where they'll send you a reminder like go stand up. A good reminder to not sit for 8 hours straight would not be the worst thing to stand up, go get some water, go to the bathroom or something. Essentially the next pro helps with goal setting and accountability. There are specialized goals with different apps and there's kind of depending on the month, sometimes they have different goals around that and that's kind of fun to do something maybe a little bit different. But also since you're checking in and it's tracking information, it might help you get to that goal or feel a little bit more motivated to do the goal and help with that accountability team since something's going to be reminding you to work toward that goal. So that can help as well. If you also need another external source of accountability in that standpoint, I go to the last one. The last one is that I can help you to connect with others and build community. I don't have an Apple Watch, but if I'm wrong let me know. But I'm pretty sure you can follow friends and like if they do a workout, like you get notified, right? Yes. So that could be a cool way to help with that accountability and motivation. As long as we'll get to the con, as long as it's not leading to some comparison items or you feeling guilty if your friend Sally close to rings but you didn't. Yeah, which I can personally speak on because I initially would get stressed that my friends would see my running time to be like Emily is the male. Which no one is thinking that. Also if anyone thought that, I probably wouldn't be friends with them in the first place. So yeah, but it's fun to kind of send the little messages like great job, you killed it. And also I know I think Fitbit might have had fitbit might have a little bit better of community setting. I haven't looked into Fitbit in a while, but I know they used to have more kind of group platforms to share your fitness goals, interact with others, bond, all that fun stuff. Yeah. So definitely there are good things and benefits to fitness trackers. We're not here to poopoo on it completely poopoo, but we want to make sure it doesn't become toxic in any way. Yeah. So let's start with the first con. That's so scary. I'm just setting it up. What makes my mouth next? My gosh, these will make you die. No, I don't think fitness trackers are lazy. I hope not, otherwise it's a different podcast episode. I agree. A little bit more tame than like, Herbal Life one where there was like, liver. They're actually worth death. Yeah. None recorded here. That I know probably somewhere, but I didn't find those maybe directly. Yeah, let's talk about the first one. Anyway. So one of the first cons is compulsively tracking health data can affect your mental health if you are constantly thinking about it, that we talk about preoccupation with food a lot, the preoccupation with our fitness and physical activity levels. Kind of thinking about, oh, my gosh, I have to fill my rings, I have to hit my step goals. That can lead to more stress just thinking about it and then lead to mental health issues. Like, maybe you didn't hit the goal and then you feel a little bit more guilty or upset with yourself. It's going to be causing some more problems there, which we do not. We want good mental health for love you. Yeah. Like we always say, the stress about not doing a workout or the stress of eating a cookie on the other side is like, worse for your health than just not doing the workout. We're eating the cookie exactly like, stresses. No bueno for our health. No. All right, our next one is that a lot of these trackers give many one size fits all goals. The biggest one we often think about is that 10,000 steps a day, which we did debunk more thoroughly in our episode 61, Our Fitness Myths, part Three. We kind of discuss like, where this ten k day comes from. We'll kind of COVID that briefly but give that sort of listen if you want to hear more. But this like, ten k steps a day is like, not a scientifically based number. It just is a marketing tactic they use to sell pedometers in, like, the 1960s. So by no means that, like, if you get that many subsequent per day, you're going to be this fit, healthy person. It may or may not be a good goal for you. Perhaps it's too low or too high. And again, it's great to set goals for yourself and try to work towards things, but just because, like, your fitness tracker says you have to get 10,000 a day, does not mean it's really true. And I think with most of them too, you can change the goals, right? Like, you could make it lower or higher so it's actually for your needs. Yeah, and we actually talked about this a little bit in one of our HK classes where we did a little experiment comparing fitness trackers and they weren't even completely all accurate with the amount of steps you took. So you could be hitting your fitness or your step goal, but maybe the fitness tracker isn't reflecting that because it's just not that accurate, which is crazy to me. But I would be like at the gym and doing like up and down, like a bicep curl, for example, and it would count the bicep curls as steps. Yeah, it's obviously I'm doing bicep curls. I'm still moving my body, but I wasn't getting my steps. No, you weren't walking around bicep curls. Exactly. Although you never know in a public gym what you're going to see. That could definitely be a possibility. That's true. To each their own. We don't know. We don't know. So we want to make sure these goals are a little bit more individualized to you. Maybe the ten k step goal isn't great for you. Maybe it needs to be higher or lower. Or maybe we need to do something with a little bit lower. Intensity of ten k's can be a little bit too extreme. So kind of going back to the desk job example, maybe staining up more at your desk like or standing up every hour or every other hour could be a more reasonable goal. Or parking farther away from your office building, wherever you're working from to walk a little bit farther or even playing with your dog. Your kids could also get in some great movement. Those both have lots of energies, so you'll definitely be moving around a lot. So it'll be good. But we want to make it a little bit more individualized to you and that's something that you kind of know yourself best, you know where you are right now, fitness level. And you don't have to follow the initial goal that a fitness tracker gives you. It's better that they're allowing you to change it. That's good. Yeah. And walking is so good for you. So again, we advocate for walking and movement. If you can get ten k a day, cool. But that may or may not be what you have to do or should do or best for you. It's just an arbitrary number. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Maybe you hate walking and it can be something, a completely different fitness goal. So something to kind of keep in mind. Definitely listen to our Myth or Fact episode where we talk a little bit more about this in depth though. Let's talk about the next kind I kind of alluded to a little bit earlier. So a lot of people experience guilt if they don't hit the fitness goal that their fitness tracker has, whether this is not filling their weight rings, the step goal, exercise, minute goal, whatever it is, experiencing guilt will affect your relationship with exercise. And we want to have great relationships with exercise, like we talked about with food as well. We want to have good relationships with both of those. And it's important that you do not need to quantify your exercise to be worthy or be considered like, I don't know, healthy or whatnot. You don't need to track it and hit the specific goal to feel good about yourself. Like, you're doing great as is any movements, good movement, as we always emphasize. And you do not need to be wearing your watch for exercise to count. And I know this is something that a lot of people struggle with a lot, where, like, they will intentionally, like, oh my gosh, I didn't have my watch to track it. It didn't count towards my workouts, it didn't count toward my rings, it didn't count towards my goal. And then they get stressed out about it, even though they were still they still got out there and moved, which was great. At the end of the day, like, you hit your goal, it just wasn't tracked. And that's something where we developed a little bit of a dependence on the watch with that. And you do not need to be movement without your watch is still movement. Yeah. Even if it's not recorded. Have you seen the TikToks of the people who put their watch around their ankles, like, while they're on their walking treadmills, like, while they're working? No. Yeah, they like, have to have it on, but it's like bothering them on their wrists. They put it around their ankle instead. So it has to count their steps. Yeah, that's no bueno. And again, it's great to have goals and, like, better yourself, but not everything has to count towards it and you're still getting your steps whether you are wearing a watch that tells you did or not. Yeah. Tis. Tis tusk. It's okay, though. It's good to, one, reflect on this and then two, like, do I have this relationship with my fitness tracker? And if you don't, great, if you do, let's reflect on it and then maybe challenge some of those thoughts and work from there. I stopped wearing mine because it was like becoming this thing where I had to get my step goal and, like, close my little rings. I had a stamps not wash, but it's very similar back in my LG or my Android days. I have now switched to Apple in case anyone wants to come after me. Yeah, we both had an Android era. We did both have an Android era. I think I switched after you switched because you convinced me. Yeah, well, I went iPhone and then I went Android and then I went back to iPhone. Same. My first smartphone was an iPhone, like four or something. I know, I can't even tell you what a four looks like. I found it at my parents house last Christmas. I think I was there hanging out. It's so, like bricklike and like a home button. The home button. But it never worked. So I like to do the weird screen thing where you log in from the screen. Yeah. And the picture quality is terrible. It was rough. Rough. They've come a long way. They were not Apple Watches back when the iPhone four was out. Yeah, I was the same way, where I was like a wheelchair. I could wear a watch all the time. But then I started my ears issues was just not associated with the watch. I only wear mine now when I worked out because I like to see where my little route was. Australia. But that's fine. I was like, oh, my gosh, look. I ran around a lake. That's literally why I wear it. Not even like I could not care anything about it's. Like, I just want to see my route. But I know I've actually had conversations with a lot of my friends who were like, I cannot take off my watch. I know. One time at work, we did like a step challenge, and I knew it was going to be a terrible idea. It was not my idea, but I had to participate. And of course it was terrible for me. I like how to wear the watch constantly. I'm very competitive, so I do not like to lose. Gosh, you tell me you're going to beat me something, and I will make sure I beat you. That was not good. So that was my last my last little hurrah. And I was like, this is enough. Like, this does not matter. It's not even a prize. Like, it's just like we all decided to do a step challenge together because we all wanted to just be more active or something. Red flag. Yes, red flag right there. I would, like, make myself do an extra walk even though I was, like, freaking exhausted because I had to beat everyone at work. So stupid. Very competitive. I don't like being bad at things. I hate losing. I need to get back in, like, a sport, a competitive sport. We can, like, push people. You need to find a recreational soccer league. I know. And then I feel like you'd thrive. My dad actually, he's going to hear this because he always listens to the podcast, but he invited me to be on his volleyball league as well, but on Thursday nights. And I have, like, things every Thursday from, like, now until the end of the year. So it won't work. But good for me. I need something to do like that where I'm just able to slam some balls and get pumped about stuff and to release that function. Yes. So if you are like me and your workplace is a weight loss challenge or a step challenge and it was not good for you, it's not your fault. But you reflect on it and see what was not good about it for you. Yeah, and if you can put that energy elsewhere exactly. Imagine how much more I could have got done otherwise. I could have done like so much cleaning or something. I wasn't stressed about getting my stupid steps in or just like rested. I could have also just rested, but you could have rest. We won't unpack my Positivity issues. That's okay. We won't find that we talk about. Yeah, we all know I have an issue with sitting still. Okay. Anyway, our next life, our next issue with the trackers, like, it's kind of already touched on. They're not always very accurate, so they do often track heart rate. And I will say that one is usually pretty close to being that one is pretty easy to calculate. I mean, it's like checking your pulse. So that one's pretty accurate. Yeah. But they also often estimate your calorie needs as well, especially calories burned. This one is often so far off. So like, for example, if you are someone who is counting calories and you are adding calories back from what your watch says, your calories burned were first of all, this insinuates that you have to earn your calories by doing exercise, which is not the case, but it also likely is not accurate. You could be either very much overeating or undereating what your actual calorie need is because this watch is telling you that you burn X amount, which may or not be accurate. Yeah, and it's typically based off of like the duration you put in. If you selected a specific type of exercise, it's going to kind of cater to that. And then also your heart rate is going to be a big one. And I have not the greatest host, but my heart rate skyrockets all the time. So my watch thinks I'm like, working out super intensely, but I'm just not I don't regularly work out as much as I would like to. So that's why it's not the greatest reflection. It's like, oh my gosh, she's really pushing herself. She's just like, die on that run. That is why it is happening. So it's something that's just not accurate and it's not good to kind of base it off of that. Like the best way to measure calories would be we'd put you in this little area and we'd measure your changes in heat as you like, worked out. But that's just not I don't know anyone who's done that. Unless you are expensive and you can't do it every day and like, if you did it Monday, it would be different than you could do on Wednesday. Yes, it's kind of like I'm not really a big fan of those features. Told my bod pod story, haven't I? On here? Yes, you have. I was like taking in front of the class. You have? I don't know when we talked about that, but yeah, you'll find it. It's in one of these podcast archives where I explained the story of how I was naked for the entire class, basically to do the bod pod to get my BMR calculated and then didn't even work. Yeah, very disappointing. Never get, like, a cut on my tuition for that. We're going back to Purdue. Maybe we can get you in. Yeah. She asked Rachel if I could do this. That would be actually so fun. I'll tell her the whole story about how, like, I need this. It was traumatizing. It was just you made me stripping from the entire class. No, I didn't know my PMR. I need to know my BMR. And back then, I was very into, like, calories and hitting the gym obsessively. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise. That's true. Maybe it would have, like, set me into a downwards fire if I had known. My BFR makes me looking out for you. Yes. The lady that was doing it probably knew I had issues. Just say it's broken. Pressing buttons off and on. Yes, we're setting it up. That's funny. Okay. Anyway, potentially, calories are not super accurate. And then also what goes along with it was the whole earning calories through exercise. It's just not a route we want to go down because it might not even be accurate. You might be under eating, you might be overeating. We're not listening to those hunger and fullness cues because we're just kind of looking at a number, especially if you're tracking, that can distort those hunger influence cues as well. And we don't want that. Something I want to know that is not accurate. And this is actually a pet peeve I personally have with Apple is the minutes are not accurate of how much time one of the rings is, like, how many minutes you exercise. And I have exercised well beyond, like, I put in my little workout, and then it should transfer over to the rate. But it's not often times it is more determined by your heart rate. So I've been doing, like, lower I've I assume other people have I'm assuming we should not assume, but I am assuming other people have experienced this, where you're doing, like, lower intensity workouts where your heart rate just isn't going up and it doesn't count. It towards your exercise rank. If you're doing some tricep dips, like, your heart rate's not going to get that high. No, but it doesn't always count. It maybe you'll count, like, half of it or, like, three quarters of it, but it doesn't count the entire time. And I'm like, that's dumb. Is that, like, a point that only cardio counts as exercise? Exactly. Where your heart rate is, like, skyrocketing or much higher, and then that's like, yeah, this is what exercise counts. No, not true. You don't have to be exhausted and pushing yourself to have it count as exercise. That's dumb. I didn't know what to do. That yes, it is a pet peeve I have because, on the contrary, I have actually a very funny story. I feel like I talked about this at one point, but I don't know if I actually did. I have gone to Purdue basketball games is when it would happen more because I would be more stressed during those there was a game we were playing Michigan State, and it was, like, a really good game, but I get easily riled up during sporting events. Not like yelling, but I started sweating and stressing out. It thought I did, like, an 8100 minutes workout when literally I was sitting Emily's, like, burning more calories and actual athletes on the court. I literally was sitting in a stadium watching up the morning event, and I thought I was working out. And I hit my exercise goal. I hit my calorie goal. I literally did not work out that day. Like, the most I did was when you stand up on something, have you crap. That is what I was doing. Oh, man. I know it happened maybe every couple of minutes or so, but no, I was not working out. My heart rate was just through the roof because Purdue sports gives me, like, a heart attack. Yeah. And I hit my exercise goal and my calorie goal because I was unwell during the game. That just shows, like, it's just not accurate. Imagine if someone like us, both very anxious individuals, just living their life, is always high. Yeah. So it's just I'm constantly stressed about something literally the same. It's a problem and yeah, it's just not I mean, I guess we are basically always in, like, a fat burning heart rate because stupid anxiety. Literally. Our fitness trackers aren't like, yes, look at them constantly working with it. No, I'm just unwell mental disorder. We're not doing well. So that's one of my biggest one of the biggest pieces of beef I have. That's hilarious. It just thinks that you are just, like, doing jump lunges. No, you're just watching pretty basic I'm watching pretty basketball. That's so great. All right, we've got two more cons, and they're all very related. But this next one is that these trackers can make it difficult to assess what type of exercise your body actually wants or needs, or it's like a rest day would even be more beneficial for you. Because with the app, again, my understanding I don't have one. But with the tracker, I want you to close your rings every day. Right, but what if you need a rest day? Like, what if your body is exhausted, you're low energy, and doing exercise will actually just make you feel worse than if you just rested. Yeah. So it kind of gives you that idea that no days off mentality, which we know is not great, or like Emily kind of said, like, what if you don't want to do, like, high heart rate stuff? Like, what if you want to, like, lift some weights pretty low intensity or do some yoga? It may not help you reach your step goal. But it's still going to be really great movement for your body. Yeah. And we encourage getting different types of movement and so you work those different muscle groups and you also don't over stress your body from one specific type. Just doing like high intensity or something like that. I never really thought about that, honestly, how it would give you the same goal every single day. I never really hit it cause that's very inconsistent. But yeah, it doesn't include like you're going to obviously naturally burn calories because you are alive or it can start functioning and you're probably moving at some point. Yeah. But it's just not inclusive of all those different types of days that you would probably need. And like on those days that you don't hit your 10,000 steps or close your rings or whatever, it's probably going to say you burn less calories and so you have to eat less. And it's the vicious cycle that way too. Yeah. And you'll feel sad you hit your rings because it sounds a little celebratory thing when you do. So yeah. You don't get that reinforcement. It needs to be one that's just like you survived today, you got through the day. Maybe that's what we'll make. Let's completely shift gears and we're just going to give good quotes for like you made it through today, you ate a meal, you drank some water, you did, you got out of bed, you brushed your teeth. Honestly, I feel like I would like thrive from the brushing your teeth. I hate that. Brushing my teeth same. I think I've mentioned this before on here. I hate it. I do it. Oh, yeah. Ask Cross. Like I hate brushing my teeth same. I don't know what it is. I hate crossing. There's this book I want you to read and everyone else to read. It's called how to I want to get this right. Hang on, let me pull up my hoopla. I'm currently renting it. Let me add it to my goodreads. It's also very short because it's like made for those who struggle with those care tasks, like trying to make those happen. So it's like banishal care. Yeah, it's like a short book because of that. It's called how to Keep House While drowning. And there's a free audio version on Hoopla if you have like a local is it a Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by Davis? Okay. It talks about how like why are we folding our underwear? Kind of stuff. Like there are bigger battles to fight and like if you struggle with the care task of brushing your teeth, here's what you can do to set a goal for yourself that happens more and things like that. It's really good. I really like it so far. Self care is something that is not. I feel like we talk about selfcare, but it's like whenever we see selfcare on social media media, it's. Always, like, this extravagant process. And it does. That's what she says. You don't have to have, like, all the organizational bins unless you want to then go for it, but make it functional for you so you actually can, like, keep up with whatever that form of self care is. Yeah. I'm excited. Yeah. Good read. I'm, like, halfway through it so far. I've been listening to it while I do, like, house stuff. Very on brand. Yes, it is. That's so much. It's okay. It's okay. Work in progress. Oh, my gosh. Yes. I'm, like, listening to this book about, like, slowing the hell down while I'm not slowing down. Yeah. Okay, good. The last con we have is that attachment that can develop between yourself and the device. So kind of going back to what we talked about already is, like, have you always felt a need to wear the device or track your progress? Do you feel like you can't work out unless you have it? Sometimes that takes away the enjoyment of working out and kind of it simplifies sometimes working out to just, like, a quantitative measure, like calories burns. Minutes completed. I know. In Whoop there's, like, what's it called? I should know this. I've been hearing people talk about more, but there's some type of exertion factor or something. Like, probably that there's also a recovery rate. I know. So maybe that as well. But it's kind of just, like, reducing it to a number sometimes when exercise can do so much more like that. For example, hiking is very fun for me. You can't speak for everyone, but if I just, like, thought about hiking as a quantitative value, I just see, like, oh, you spent this much time walking around. I don't really think about, like, the sites you see. You're kind of, like, invite a new place to explore or, like, bonding with others. It takes away those components as well and just kind of reduces it to nothing, which kind of goes along with calorie tracking, honestly, where it takes away the enjoyment around food and things. It just reduces it to a number. Exactly. It takes away, like, culture and memories and celebrations and emotions. It's just like, food is just calories. You're a robot. Yes. Okay, we've got one last one. It's very quick and to the point. And it's that these can be expensive. That's really it. Yes. It makes you seem or feel maybe that if you can't afford this, then your exercise doesn't count because you're not wearing some fancy dancy watch. And that's obviously untrue. No. Not a necessity. No, it is a luxury. And even with that, it's not even necessary or helpful for those who can't afford it or want to afford it. Yeah. You do not need this at all. No. In fact, it might be a good idea not to get it. If you think any of the things we've discussed today might be the case for you exactly. That cool. So let's talk about our final thoughts. So there are pros way back when we talked about them and Finnish trackers can be helpful to some individuals, but they're not really meant to be heavily relied upon. And a lot of the features or estimations as we talked about, not super accurate and we don't want to if you do want to keep using your watch, we have a couple tips for you. So first one being is do not pay attention to the calories burned. This is so inaccurate. You didn't get it from the low intensity remarks about the different types of exercise. My story when I was stressed and I burned so many calories from stress, even though I was not burning calories, I was just anxious. It doesn't know like how much muscle mass you have or fat mass or any of that either. Yes, I think it takes into account your height and weight at most, but that changes day to day. Yeah. Also, there's not that body composition side of it. So the calorie part could easily start petition right now. Let's get rid of the calorie part. I don't need that. No. Next little tidbit for if you do want to continue using your watch is incorporating weight bearing exercise. This doesn't emphasize the steps and the calories burned as oftentimes. Like cardio is often more paired with but there are many health benefits with this. We probably talk about this many times. I know we talk about it with I'm probably one of them at the fact we have three of them. So go listen to all three. We probably also talk about it with like Brendan, Damien, Elias, Steve, go check out any of our episodes with any of our personal training friends. They all talk about various reasons of importance of resistance training or whatnot. And you'll get to hear all the different opinions on it. So that'll be good. And the last little tip would be do not become obsessed. And that's something we're like let's start with reflection right now. Let's just start with do I feel attached to this? Do I feel like I could do a workout with this? Do I feel like even a workout do I feel like I could go a day not wearing my watch? Let's start there. Yeah. Reflect on that. Challenge some of those thoughts and something we're more toward is like remembering this is just a tool, this is not a lifeline. You do not need this. It is not essential to life. It's more of a luxury. And even then, maybe it won't help you if, you know, you're a little bit more prone to kind of those obsessive thoughts. Yeah, it could be a luxury that is harming you. Don't your dog. My voice is so scratchy too.

Participant #1:
Our final thoughts. I agree. Okay, the bonus question I'm excited about, I thought of it while I was working on the outline for this. It's very on the same. Yes. Okay, bonus question. And when you go first, as you're the one who does more outside workouts, would you rather do you hear my voice? I'm like getting all rapped. Are you sick? Are you good? I just had sleeping enough. I just ate I always sleep enough, but I just ate something. I think it's just food. Good question about sleep. I'm usually sleeping plenty. Question is, would you rather exercise in really cold weather or really hot weather?

Participant #1:
Yes. I'm strongly opinionated on this because I have worked out in negative ten degree weather and I worked out in like 110 degree weather, so I would rather do cold because you can wear more layers. True. And at some point you just start to become numb so you don't feel it anymore. That's true. On the hot side, I height in Arizona in July. I have fainted once before. Not related to this, but I thought I was going to paint again. It was literally like I was stripping to shorts and sports bra. I was drinking so much water and nothing was working. I literally was getting lightheaded. I thought I was going to faint. I wasn't sure if I was going to throw up and there was nothing I could do about it. Well, maybe you could have more access to liquids if you were like not going out far somewhere, but it was miserable because you just keep sweating and then you're gross and then everything's heavy. I did not experience the numbing feelings I felt with cold. Yeah, well, it's kind of like your second wind, almost. Yes. So I'm team very cold. My experience comes from when I played soccer, like in high school especially, and I also have played soccer in like the snow and also in Indiana, July and August, where it's like 100 degrees. I don't know, I just really hate being cold so much. Generally speaking, I hate being cold and so I would always just not have a good time playing in the cold. But when it is exercise, you do get warm as you exercise. So that I might have to agree with you on the cold one, but I don't know, I always think I have a higher tolerance for heat because I hate being cold so much. Maybe, yeah. I don't know. I think if you have plenty of access to water and you can like, rest whenever you need to, I'll definitely choose hot, but I think it's more dangerous for most people to like, do intense exercise in hot weather because heat exhaustion and heat strokes and all those are very, very real and scary. So I don't know, I guess I'm kind of on the line as always. But I will just say generally I like being hot more than cold. Yes, I would agree though. Like, I need to be like a little reptile under a heat lamp at all times. Same. I hate being cold same. I would, like, rather be uncomfortably hot than cold. But in the piece of exercise, I probably would have said hot before, honestly, if I hadn't heights in Arizona and I experienced that, I was like, this is the worst thing I've ever experienced my entire life. Granted the cold example I was running. So it was, like, a little bit different, I guess. Yeah. And like I said, you'll get warm eventually if you're doing exercise. Like, with soccer, I would be, like, freezing at first, but then you start playing the game and you warm up. Yeah. So, like, with hot, you just keep getting hotter. Yeah. It's not getting colder no matter how much you sweat. Exactly. Yeah. So I think just the bottom line is we like to be warm. And if we ever were to run an office together where we just, like, did our podcast all day, it'd be, like, 80 degrees an hour. Oh, yeah. No, it would be very warm. We'd have, like, complimentary slippers for our guests and, like, blankets. Yeah. They'll be like, it's so hot. And I'm like, yes, it's great. Got our hot tea. And we're just, like, bundled up. And I live with a man who likes to be cold, so it's a constant battle around here. Oh, my gosh. No. I don't know what Bobby's like. I was gonna say, what was Bobby like? I don't know. I guess you both don't really get the opportunity to have full control over your thermostat, so no, I cannot. That'll be an interesting thing when you guys move in. Let's see if we fight. We've been married for almost three years, and it's still a constant fight, so it's fine. Not one that will break you up, which is good. No, it's just who can be the most petty and, like, increase without the other one noticing? Yes. It's so funny. I like that question about this. I do too. I thought it was a question, a different approach. Yeah. I don't think I've ever I've heard about people being, like, hot or cold. I've heard about it in exercise. This is good. Yeah. Nice and specified. Look at us. I know. I always try to match the themes, and then they just don't make any sense. And that's okay too. Yeah. But I try to get them to kind of match, like, the beachbody one where I threw in the what was my question? Oh, the fries and the shake. Yeah, it was like shake ologies to try to incorporate a similarity there, because you guys really care. I know. They probably didn't get this far. They've been long gone since, like, we talked about Emily's basketball story. Probably my bod pods were, for the fifth time, probably skipping, like yes, I know. I know she was upset. I know she stripped. Hannah has anxiety down. Cool. We already know Hasket at once. We're going to skip to them. Thanks, guys, for hanging out with me. 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