May 1, 2025 • 17 mins
You just worked out 4 days in a row, open your health app only for it to tell you...
You should workout again today otherwise risk losing fitness.
Is this "Readiness" score accurate and should you base your workout routine off what it tells you each day?
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(00:00):
(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) What's up, guys?
Welcome to a brand new episode of the Fit Women's Weekly podcast.
Hope that you are having a fantastic day.
You've had a fantastic week.
Things are starting to wind down, and hopefully you've got some really cool
plans this weekend.
I am so excited at this time of the year for a couple of different reasons.
But this morning, while I was on my run, which I run the same time.
(00:22):
Every single time that I go running a different area.
So don't worry, people can't like figure out my route every single time.
But because of that, I'm able to see like the changes in the sunrise and stuff
as the year goes by.
And this morning, as I was running, it was around six o'clock in the morning
when I was getting ready to finish up and the sun was already starting to peak
(00:44):
up and I could see the ground clearly.
I'm like, oh, my God, this is just the best time.
It's that.
Then there's the mix of a little bit of springtime breeze in the morning, but
warm temperatures in the afternoon.
And it makes my heart so frigging happy and it makes me so motivated with my
fitness where it kind of came to kick me in the butt to be perfectly honest,
(01:05):
because I have been so motivated and just the sunshine has been energizing me
for my workouts, which then goes into film is with the live because film is
with the live is my workouts.
That is what I am designing for.
And so it was this week where I noticed that clients were a little bit more run
down, a little bit more sore than normal.
(01:26):
And I was like, oh, I am sorry, guys.
I just realized it was time for a deal load week.
And we have not had that because I've been so motivated to just keep going and
keep pushing and been seeing some really great results.
The ladies are getting stronger.
I myself have noticed like, hey, you know what?
I've been doing this thing for 20 years and I'm finally getting myself a pretty
(01:47):
good ass.
But you sometimes have to take a step back and go like, no, your body needs
time to recover.
So we did after Monday when I had that realization that we haven't stepped back
and brought the intensity down in a while.
I was like, I am really sorry, y'all.
We're going to cool it down for the rest of this week.
Take a proper deal load week and be able to write things back up the following
(02:11):
week.
So the first week of May, which works out perfect.
But yeah, it's been really great, which real fast before I jump into this
week's question next week on Monday.
Well, technically on Sunday is when I actually launched the product so that I
can go over everything and get everybody to be able to hit the ground running
come Monday.
(02:32):
But Ignite 30 is starting a brand new session.
These are small group programs where I have it all outlined for you in a daily
to do system so that you open up the Ignite 30 program.
It shows you what you need to accomplish that specific day.
It gives you your workout, a link to the workout that is fully filmed.
(02:52):
It tells you little quickie challenges that you need to do because you guys
know I'm all about small little things that you can do throughout the day that
can really add up and drive some really big results.
So each week you get a new fitness challenge.
So that's listed on that day of how many of what exercise you're supposed to
do.
It's also going to give you a nutrition challenge for that day.
(03:12):
I don't want you to try to change five different things with your nutrition.
We're going to focus on just one small thing and then compound that week after
week.
So at the final week, you'll have four different challenges that you're focused
on.
But one thing at a time to make those challenges easy to actually get done.
And then sometimes there's a mindset challenge and there's a step challenge to
(03:34):
each day because getting outside, moving your body is obviously really
important.
And then through that, you get to build streaks, you get to gain points to help
keep yourself motivated.
You get access to me every single day.
Personal access.
This is not AI answering your questions.
It is not a personal assistant that I have.
That would be great if I had a personal assistant.
(03:55):
But no, it's just me and myself here to help you answer your questions, train
you properly, coach you and help you get freaking things done so that you are
motivated and you are getting strong and you are hitting results.
It's all part of the Ignite 30.
Go ahead.
I will make sure that I have all the links down below.
And even if you're not interested, do me a favor.
(04:16):
Click and learn about it anyways, because at first you might be like, this
doesn't sound like something I'm into, but then you might open it up and go
like, oh, actually, surprisingly, this sounds pretty cool.
Or maybe you don't think it's for you, but you have a friend who really needs
to get started on her street journey, or maybe she's a fitness beast, but she's
stuck in a workout right right now and just needs something new.
(04:38):
Maybe this program will make you think of her and you can send it over to her.
So please do me that favor.
And also, Dan has designed our website completely from scratch.
He is a programmer.
And so for anything else, I also just love you checking it out.
And if you have feedback, let me know.
So definitely go click on the Ignite 30 link.
Check it out.
(04:59):
Let me know what you think.
If it's for you, sign up.
If it's not, that's cool.
Send it to someone who you think it might be for.
All right.
So now let's talk about this show, this episode.
I received you guys know I love hearing questions from you.
What is on your mind?
What do you want to know?
It's going to help with your own personal fitness or nutrition or mindset.
(05:24):
So April sent me this last week and it says, hey, I love your podcast.
I've been a listener for years.
So very much.
Thank you, April.
That means a lot.
I do have a question that perhaps you could address on upcoming episode.
Here we are.
Samsung recently updated their Galaxy Watch and Health app to include an energy
score.
This score is determined by previous day activity and sleep.
(05:45):
I average seven to eight hours of sleep and my sleep score is typically
excellent.
Why don't you just rub it in April?
That's fine.
Mine is never an excellent.
However, I've noticed that if I do my one hour of strength training and also
get 10,000 steps one day, my energy score the following day will plummet and
then the app will tell me I need a rest.
So my question is how much weight should I be giving to this?
(06:07):
If any at all, I typically feel great, but my app essentially is yelling at me
to say, take it easy.
And I love this question for a couple of reasons, because I actually took
screenshots of my own.
I don't have a galaxy.
I have the Apple, um, I have an Apple phone, but, or iPhone, hello.
But I use a Fitbit and my Fitbit has something called a ready score, which is
(06:31):
the exact same thing that she's talking about.
And I had actually taken screenshots two weeks ago because I wanted to talk
about this on social media.
And then I forgot, I was like, Oh, I'll take screenshots and do a post on this.
So this is kind of like a full circle moment where I'm like, Oh, cool.
It's bringing me back to this topic.
I already wanted to talk about.
So basically what the readiness score is, is it's designed to indicate how
(06:56):
ready your body is based on sleep, resting heart rate and heart rate
variability, I'm going to talk about it just from the Fitbit, but most, like
she said, the galaxy has it as well.
This is just what I'm more used to.
And basically it's supposed to tell you on a score of one to a hundred, how
ready you are for that day.
How much energy does your body have?
(07:17):
And is it accurate?
The answer is no, no, it's not.
But first off, let's talk about it like sleep, right?
Like, obviously if you're getting your seven to eight hours of sleep, that's a
good thing.
It's going to help your body recover.
You're going to have more energy than if you were to only get four to six hours
of sleep.
So that part makes sense.
(07:37):
Then there's heart rate variability.
That's your HRV.
And basically what that is, cause I know a lot of people are like, what is HRV?
That is showing you the way your heart beats.
So if your heart is an average of six, 60 beats per minute, right?
That doesn't mean that it is beating once every second.
(07:58):
It's not a steady rhythm like that.
So your heart rate variability is just kind of the rhythm that your personal
heart does and any type of going off of that, whether it's all of a sudden your
HRV goes up or down can indicate stress.
It can indicate that you're getting sick or that you're not rested or
recovered.
And then, um, rusting heart rate, that makes sense as well.
(08:21):
But there's also different variabilities with that too.
I used to talk about a lot how I would look at my heart rate and that was the
number one indicator that I'd actually use my Fitbit for.
And I still do, but because I have paid so much attention to it, I don't put as
much weight on it anymore.
I used to look at it and go, Oh my gosh, if my heart rate is all of a sudden
(08:42):
really high, I took that as a sign that I needed to take a rest day.
And now what I've personally realized is that my heart rate changes the most
with where I am in my cycle versus where I am in my exercise recovery.
So that that's been really interesting over the past.
I've noted, like been able to really track it and figure it out over the past
(09:05):
two years since I've gotten off of birth control.
And I've noticed that when my right before my cycle, about a week and a half
before I start my period, my heart rate will go up pretty dramatically.
So I'm talking like 56 to 57 beats, but then the week after my period, it comes
down to 49, 50, and 51 beats as my resting heart rate.
(09:30):
And so that's kind of the changes that I see in that.
So if you don't know your body, then when it's going to calculate this
readiness score, and it might not be really based off of resting because
there's so many other variables that are involved, but here's the other thing.
Sometimes when you're sleeping, your watch or your phone or whatever it is that
(09:54):
you're using isn't hooked onto you perfectly for some reason, a lot of nights
I'll wake up knowing that I went to bed at a certain time, but if I were to
look at my sleep schedule on my phone or on my, from my Fitbit, it tells me
that I went to sleep a whole hour later and I know that's not true.
So that's false data too.
(10:14):
The other thing that I've noticed is that I think the readiness score is great
for someone who needs motivation to work out.
If you are not working out consistently and you open up your app and it tells
you, Hey, you have a score of a hundred go work out, but you didn't work out
yesterday or the day before, then that could be really motivating, right?
(10:36):
Cause you're like, Oh, it's timing.
My body's great.
If you're a somebody like me who is already working out plenty, then it can
actually be an excuse my language, a total mindfuck.
And here's what I mean by that.
I have seen, you know, I work out as my job.
So I have to work out Monday through Friday.
(10:57):
I film full workouts for fitmans weekly live and for my programs.
And so that means like that's, that's my schedule.
And so then on Saturdays, you guys know, I go for a pretty decent run where
it's anywhere between eight to generally 10 miles.
And I ended up getting about 25,000 to 30,000 steps on a Saturday, just because
(11:22):
of that run plus movement.
If I go walk with my girlfriends, whatever the case may be.
And so that's a lot of exercise.
That's six days of fitness in a row.
And then Sundays is always my rest day.
Now here's sometimes what happens.
There's two scenarios.
A lot of times it'll say on a Sunday morning, wow, you've moved a lot the past
(11:46):
couple of days, take today as a rest day, which duh, yes, I get that.
But then I wake up on Monday and I, it will ding back up at me and go, huh, you
really didn't move very much.
It's important for you to catch up and do some exercise today.
And you're like, what, I took one rest day out of seven days.
(12:08):
And you're telling me that if I don't exercise today, I'm going to lose my
fitness.
So for somebody like me, and I know a lot of my listeners who have that.
Got to move mentality.
It could actually do more harm than good because it's like, well, should I
really take a rest day on Sunday?
Cause it's telling me that I'm going to lose my fitness because I rested, which
obviously is a bad thing on the other side, this happened this past weekend
(12:33):
where again, last week training has been really intense.
You know, with the training block that we had, which is why we're taking the D
load week.
So last week was a pretty intense week.
Then on Saturday, I did a 10 and a half mile run.
And then I walked two miles with a girlfriend right after that.
It was a very big movement based day, but then I got some pretty decent sleep
(12:57):
on Saturday night.
I woke up on Sunday and I like to look at the app just to kind of collect data
and I like to be able to have these conversations.
I knew I was, would be talking to you guys about this.
And I was very surprised that it had my score, my readiness score at a 100.
What that makes no sense.
(13:18):
Very rarely do I get a score of 100 just because I wake up so early.
And you know, I normally don't get eight hours of sleep.
It's more of like six and a half to seven hours of sleep, plus the intense
workouts that I'm getting and the steps that I'm getting, all of those kinds of
things.
So on a Sunday, after I had just worked out six days in a row, it was telling
(13:39):
me I was a hundred percent ready for movement and I needed to move if I wanted
to maintain or build upon my fitness.
That is terrible advice.
So at the end of the day, the most important thing to do when it comes to those
apps is to listen to your body.
Now, again, I think that if you are brand new to fitness and you're just trying
(13:59):
to build a fitness routine that you can do consistently, then yeah, those
things are great motivators.
But if you're somebody who's been working out for a long time and you are in
check with your body, you know what your body feels like when you are recovered
and you also mentally know, no, I need to take a day off.
Then that is what you need to listen to.
(14:22):
Don't rely on machinery that doesn't have everything that it needs to know to
put out a very accurate number.
So the long or the short of it is, is that it's great for some people and for
some people it's not so great.
But for most of us, it is not so great.
It's not giving you anything really helpful that you don't know.
(14:43):
If you really were to ask yourself, how am I feeling today?
Should I work out?
You know, the answer to that based on things that are going on in your life,
not based on what some app is telling you.
And I always like to remind myself for most of our lives and for decades, we
didn't have these kind of contraptions.
(15:05):
People were still able to build fitness and get strong and live really active
lives without it.
And so that's where I try to go back to as often as I can.
So I don't use that information at all.
I wish that I could just, I wish that you could go into these apps and take off
the elements that you don't want to see, because again, for someone like me, I
(15:28):
don't need to be told, Hey, you're slowing down.
You need to get up and move.
Luckily at this point in my life, I'm like, no, you're stupid.
But younger me, 30 year old Kindle would have been like, Oh, okay.
Well, I guess I need to do more.
You know, I don't have more in my tank at this time, this time.
And a lot of us don't.
So do the best that you can do.
(15:49):
Work on a consistent workout routine, listen to your body.
And if you are trying to build fitness, work on progressive overload, whether
that's with your cardio or your strength training, always pushing a little bit
harder, building upon one workout to the next, and you're going to be just
fine.
And remember, rest days are really important.
(16:11):
One to two rest days minimum is what is going to help you get the results that
you need.
So hopefully that helps.
If you have any other questions about it, let me know if you need help building
a good routine, ignite 30 is here for you.
The time is definitely running out.
Registration is going to close on Saturday evening.
I would love for you to participate, but like I said, this is a limited
(16:34):
program.
I'm not opening a ton of spots because I want to make sure that you get the
attention and the coaching that you deserve and to get the push that you
deserve to help build your fitness.
And we're not going to use some kind of app.
That's going to like throw out false data.
I've created a plan.
All you got to do is follow that plan.
All right, you guys.
Thanks so much for hanging out with me.
(16:56):
If you are not already subscribed to the podcast, do it.
But even before that, I just really would love for you to go check out the
ignite 30 program.
So I know I've listened to a lot of business stuff where it's like, stop
putting multiple links or telling people in your podcast or in your blogs or in
your YouTube videos to do multiple things.
You should only ask them to do one action at a time.
(17:18):
So I am asking y'all for that one action to just click on the ignite 30 and get
the details if it's for you.
Great.
If it's not for you, that's great too.
But I'd love to know what it is that it's missing that I can maybe offer in the
future to make it more like we're, when you do read it, you're like, that's
exactly what I need.
(17:40):
Give me the feedback y'all.
All right.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
Bye.
(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) What's up, guys?
Welcome to a brand new episode of the Fit Women's Weekly podcast.
Hope that you are having a fantastic day.
You've had a fantastic week.
Things are starting to wind down, and hopefully you've got some really cool
plans this weekend.
I am so excited at this time of the year for a couple of different reasons.
But this morning, while I was on my run, which I run the same time.
(00:22):
Every single time that I go running a different area.
So don't worry, people can't like figure out my route every single time.
But because of that, I'm able to see like the changes in the sunrise and stuff
as the year goes by.
And this morning, as I was running, it was around six o'clock in the morning
when I was getting ready to finish up and the sun was already starting to peak
(00:44):
up and I could see the ground clearly.
I'm like, oh, my God, this is just the best time.
It's that.
Then there's the mix of a little bit of springtime breeze in the morning, but
warm temperatures in the afternoon.
And it makes my heart so frigging happy and it makes me so motivated with my
fitness where it kind of came to kick me in the butt to be perfectly honest,
(01:05):
because I have been so motivated and just the sunshine has been energizing me
for my workouts, which then goes into film is with the live because film is
with the live is my workouts.
That is what I am designing for.
And so it was this week where I noticed that clients were a little bit more run
down, a little bit more sore than normal.
(01:26):
And I was like, oh, I am sorry, guys.
I just realized it was time for a deal load week.
And we have not had that because I've been so motivated to just keep going and
keep pushing and been seeing some really great results.
The ladies are getting stronger.
I myself have noticed like, hey, you know what?
I've been doing this thing for 20 years and I'm finally getting myself a pretty
(01:47):
good ass.
But you sometimes have to take a step back and go like, no, your body needs
time to recover.
So we did after Monday when I had that realization that we haven't stepped back
and brought the intensity down in a while.
I was like, I am really sorry, y'all.
We're going to cool it down for the rest of this week.
Take a proper deal load week and be able to write things back up the following
(02:11):
week.
So the first week of May, which works out perfect.
But yeah, it's been really great, which real fast before I jump into this
week's question next week on Monday.
Well, technically on Sunday is when I actually launched the product so that I
can go over everything and get everybody to be able to hit the ground running
come Monday.
(02:32):
But Ignite 30 is starting a brand new session.
These are small group programs where I have it all outlined for you in a daily
to do system so that you open up the Ignite 30 program.
It shows you what you need to accomplish that specific day.
It gives you your workout, a link to the workout that is fully filmed.
(02:52):
It tells you little quickie challenges that you need to do because you guys
know I'm all about small little things that you can do throughout the day that
can really add up and drive some really big results.
So each week you get a new fitness challenge.
So that's listed on that day of how many of what exercise you're supposed to
do.
It's also going to give you a nutrition challenge for that day.
(03:12):
I don't want you to try to change five different things with your nutrition.
We're going to focus on just one small thing and then compound that week after
week.
So at the final week, you'll have four different challenges that you're focused
on.
But one thing at a time to make those challenges easy to actually get done.
And then sometimes there's a mindset challenge and there's a step challenge to
(03:34):
each day because getting outside, moving your body is obviously really
important.
And then through that, you get to build streaks, you get to gain points to help
keep yourself motivated.
You get access to me every single day.
Personal access.
This is not AI answering your questions.
It is not a personal assistant that I have.
That would be great if I had a personal assistant.
(03:55):
But no, it's just me and myself here to help you answer your questions, train
you properly, coach you and help you get freaking things done so that you are
motivated and you are getting strong and you are hitting results.
It's all part of the Ignite 30.
Go ahead.
I will make sure that I have all the links down below.
And even if you're not interested, do me a favor.
(04:16):
Click and learn about it anyways, because at first you might be like, this
doesn't sound like something I'm into, but then you might open it up and go
like, oh, actually, surprisingly, this sounds pretty cool.
Or maybe you don't think it's for you, but you have a friend who really needs
to get started on her street journey, or maybe she's a fitness beast, but she's
stuck in a workout right right now and just needs something new.
(04:38):
Maybe this program will make you think of her and you can send it over to her.
So please do me that favor.
And also, Dan has designed our website completely from scratch.
He is a programmer.
And so for anything else, I also just love you checking it out.
And if you have feedback, let me know.
So definitely go click on the Ignite 30 link.
Check it out.
(04:59):
Let me know what you think.
If it's for you, sign up.
If it's not, that's cool.
Send it to someone who you think it might be for.
All right.
So now let's talk about this show, this episode.
I received you guys know I love hearing questions from you.
What is on your mind?
What do you want to know?
It's going to help with your own personal fitness or nutrition or mindset.
(05:24):
So April sent me this last week and it says, hey, I love your podcast.
I've been a listener for years.
So very much.
Thank you, April.
That means a lot.
I do have a question that perhaps you could address on upcoming episode.
Here we are.
Samsung recently updated their Galaxy Watch and Health app to include an energy
score.
This score is determined by previous day activity and sleep.
(05:45):
I average seven to eight hours of sleep and my sleep score is typically
excellent.
Why don't you just rub it in April?
That's fine.
Mine is never an excellent.
However, I've noticed that if I do my one hour of strength training and also
get 10,000 steps one day, my energy score the following day will plummet and
then the app will tell me I need a rest.
So my question is how much weight should I be giving to this?
(06:07):
If any at all, I typically feel great, but my app essentially is yelling at me
to say, take it easy.
And I love this question for a couple of reasons, because I actually took
screenshots of my own.
I don't have a galaxy.
I have the Apple, um, I have an Apple phone, but, or iPhone, hello.
But I use a Fitbit and my Fitbit has something called a ready score, which is
(06:31):
the exact same thing that she's talking about.
And I had actually taken screenshots two weeks ago because I wanted to talk
about this on social media.
And then I forgot, I was like, Oh, I'll take screenshots and do a post on this.
So this is kind of like a full circle moment where I'm like, Oh, cool.
It's bringing me back to this topic.
I already wanted to talk about.
So basically what the readiness score is, is it's designed to indicate how
(06:56):
ready your body is based on sleep, resting heart rate and heart rate
variability, I'm going to talk about it just from the Fitbit, but most, like
she said, the galaxy has it as well.
This is just what I'm more used to.
And basically it's supposed to tell you on a score of one to a hundred, how
ready you are for that day.
How much energy does your body have?
(07:17):
And is it accurate?
The answer is no, no, it's not.
But first off, let's talk about it like sleep, right?
Like, obviously if you're getting your seven to eight hours of sleep, that's a
good thing.
It's going to help your body recover.
You're going to have more energy than if you were to only get four to six hours
of sleep.
So that part makes sense.
(07:37):
Then there's heart rate variability.
That's your HRV.
And basically what that is, cause I know a lot of people are like, what is HRV?
That is showing you the way your heart beats.
So if your heart is an average of six, 60 beats per minute, right?
That doesn't mean that it is beating once every second.
(07:58):
It's not a steady rhythm like that.
So your heart rate variability is just kind of the rhythm that your personal
heart does and any type of going off of that, whether it's all of a sudden your
HRV goes up or down can indicate stress.
It can indicate that you're getting sick or that you're not rested or
recovered.
And then, um, rusting heart rate, that makes sense as well.
(08:21):
But there's also different variabilities with that too.
I used to talk about a lot how I would look at my heart rate and that was the
number one indicator that I'd actually use my Fitbit for.
And I still do, but because I have paid so much attention to it, I don't put as
much weight on it anymore.
I used to look at it and go, Oh my gosh, if my heart rate is all of a sudden
(08:42):
really high, I took that as a sign that I needed to take a rest day.
And now what I've personally realized is that my heart rate changes the most
with where I am in my cycle versus where I am in my exercise recovery.
So that that's been really interesting over the past.
I've noted, like been able to really track it and figure it out over the past
(09:05):
two years since I've gotten off of birth control.
And I've noticed that when my right before my cycle, about a week and a half
before I start my period, my heart rate will go up pretty dramatically.
So I'm talking like 56 to 57 beats, but then the week after my period, it comes
down to 49, 50, and 51 beats as my resting heart rate.
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And so that's kind of the changes that I see in that.
So if you don't know your body, then when it's going to calculate this
readiness score, and it might not be really based off of resting because
there's so many other variables that are involved, but here's the other thing.
Sometimes when you're sleeping, your watch or your phone or whatever it is that
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you're using isn't hooked onto you perfectly for some reason, a lot of nights
I'll wake up knowing that I went to bed at a certain time, but if I were to
look at my sleep schedule on my phone or on my, from my Fitbit, it tells me
that I went to sleep a whole hour later and I know that's not true.
So that's false data too.
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The other thing that I've noticed is that I think the readiness score is great
for someone who needs motivation to work out.
If you are not working out consistently and you open up your app and it tells
you, Hey, you have a score of a hundred go work out, but you didn't work out
yesterday or the day before, then that could be really motivating, right?
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Cause you're like, Oh, it's timing.
My body's great.
If you're a somebody like me who is already working out plenty, then it can
actually be an excuse my language, a total mindfuck.
And here's what I mean by that.
I have seen, you know, I work out as my job.
So I have to work out Monday through Friday.
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I film full workouts for fitmans weekly live and for my programs.
And so that means like that's, that's my schedule.
And so then on Saturdays, you guys know, I go for a pretty decent run where
it's anywhere between eight to generally 10 miles.
And I ended up getting about 25,000 to 30,000 steps on a Saturday, just because
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of that run plus movement.
If I go walk with my girlfriends, whatever the case may be.
And so that's a lot of exercise.
That's six days of fitness in a row.
And then Sundays is always my rest day.
Now here's sometimes what happens.
There's two scenarios.
A lot of times it'll say on a Sunday morning, wow, you've moved a lot the past
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couple of days, take today as a rest day, which duh, yes, I get that.
But then I wake up on Monday and I, it will ding back up at me and go, huh, you
really didn't move very much.
It's important for you to catch up and do some exercise today.
And you're like, what, I took one rest day out of seven days.
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And you're telling me that if I don't exercise today, I'm going to lose my
fitness.
So for somebody like me, and I know a lot of my listeners who have that.
Got to move mentality.
It could actually do more harm than good because it's like, well, should I
really take a rest day on Sunday?
Cause it's telling me that I'm going to lose my fitness because I rested, which
obviously is a bad thing on the other side, this happened this past weekend
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where again, last week training has been really intense.
You know, with the training block that we had, which is why we're taking the D
load week.
So last week was a pretty intense week.
Then on Saturday, I did a 10 and a half mile run.
And then I walked two miles with a girlfriend right after that.
It was a very big movement based day, but then I got some pretty decent sleep
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on Saturday night.
I woke up on Sunday and I like to look at the app just to kind of collect data
and I like to be able to have these conversations.
I knew I was, would be talking to you guys about this.
And I was very surprised that it had my score, my readiness score at a 100.
What that makes no sense.
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Very rarely do I get a score of 100 just because I wake up so early.
And you know, I normally don't get eight hours of sleep.
It's more of like six and a half to seven hours of sleep, plus the intense
workouts that I'm getting and the steps that I'm getting, all of those kinds of
things.
So on a Sunday, after I had just worked out six days in a row, it was telling
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me I was a hundred percent ready for movement and I needed to move if I wanted
to maintain or build upon my fitness.
That is terrible advice.
So at the end of the day, the most important thing to do when it comes to those
apps is to listen to your body.
Now, again, I think that if you are brand new to fitness and you're just trying
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to build a fitness routine that you can do consistently, then yeah, those
things are great motivators.
But if you're somebody who's been working out for a long time and you are in
check with your body, you know what your body feels like when you are recovered
and you also mentally know, no, I need to take a day off.
Then that is what you need to listen to.
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Don't rely on machinery that doesn't have everything that it needs to know to
put out a very accurate number.
So the long or the short of it is, is that it's great for some people and for
some people it's not so great.
But for most of us, it is not so great.
It's not giving you anything really helpful that you don't know.
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If you really were to ask yourself, how am I feeling today?
Should I work out?
You know, the answer to that based on things that are going on in your life,
not based on what some app is telling you.
And I always like to remind myself for most of our lives and for decades, we
didn't have these kind of contraptions.
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People were still able to build fitness and get strong and live really active
lives without it.
And so that's where I try to go back to as often as I can.
So I don't use that information at all.
I wish that I could just, I wish that you could go into these apps and take off
the elements that you don't want to see, because again, for someone like me, I
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don't need to be told, Hey, you're slowing down.
You need to get up and move.
Luckily at this point in my life, I'm like, no, you're stupid.
But younger me, 30 year old Kindle would have been like, Oh, okay.
Well, I guess I need to do more.
You know, I don't have more in my tank at this time, this time.
And a lot of us don't.
So do the best that you can do.
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Work on a consistent workout routine, listen to your body.
And if you are trying to build fitness, work on progressive overload, whether
that's with your cardio or your strength training, always pushing a little bit
harder, building upon one workout to the next, and you're going to be just
fine.
And remember, rest days are really important.
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One to two rest days minimum is what is going to help you get the results that
you need.
So hopefully that helps.
If you have any other questions about it, let me know if you need help building
a good routine, ignite 30 is here for you.
The time is definitely running out.
Registration is going to close on Saturday evening.
I would love for you to participate, but like I said, this is a limited
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program.
I'm not opening a ton of spots because I want to make sure that you get the
attention and the coaching that you deserve and to get the push that you
deserve to help build your fitness.
And we're not going to use some kind of app.
That's going to like throw out false data.
I've created a plan.
All you got to do is follow that plan.
All right, you guys.
Thanks so much for hanging out with me.
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If you are not already subscribed to the podcast, do it.
But even before that, I just really would love for you to go check out the
ignite 30 program.
So I know I've listened to a lot of business stuff where it's like, stop
putting multiple links or telling people in your podcast or in your blogs or in
your YouTube videos to do multiple things.
You should only ask them to do one action at a time.
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So I am asking y'all for that one action to just click on the ignite 30 and get
the details if it's for you.
Great.
If it's not for you, that's great too.
But I'd love to know what it is that it's missing that I can maybe offer in the
future to make it more like we're, when you do read it, you're like, that's
exactly what I need.
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Give me the feedback y'all.
All right.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
Bye.
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