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  "title": "Health on Focustivity",
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        "id": "http://focustivity.micro.blog/2025/01/03/finding-the-right-time-to.html",
        "title": "Finding the right time to exercise",
        "content_html": "<p>One of my resolutions for 2025 is to exercise more. At a bare minimum, I aim to get a quick cycle in or walk at my desk (treadmill) for a while. I have the equipment, but I failed miserably in 2024.</p>\n<p>Perhaps the reason for this failure is that I either scheduled my workouts first thing in the morning or late in the day, after work.</p>\n<p>I find that in the early mornings, I don&rsquo;t want to get out of bed, and when I&rsquo;m finally ready, my mind is already working, writing, or occupied with some activity that I want to start right away. So, I tend to skip the workout, telling myself I&rsquo;ll do it in the evening.</p>\n<p>In the evenings, more often than not, I just keep busy with something right through my scheduled workout. Then, I&rsquo;m exhausted and tell myself, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll exercise in the morning.&rdquo;</p>\n<p>Over the past few days, I&rsquo;ve tried a new technique. Mid-afternoon, when I start to get tired and still have things I want to accomplish, my brain begins to slow down. This seems to be the perfect time to get some exercise.</p>\n<p>Forty-five minutes on the bike, and my blood is flowing, and my focus is back.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m fortunate enough to work from home and have a fairly flexible schedule that allows this mid-day break. If I have meetings, I can place the walking treadmill under my desk and at least get some steps in.</p>\n<p>When I exercise regularly, I tend to eat better, sleep better, and feel better overall. No surprise.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m also hoping that talking about it motivates me to exercise more. I&rsquo;m at the age where I need to do this NOW, or it will be too late.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-03T11:19:00-04:00",
        "url": "https://focustivity.blog/2025/01/03/finding-the-right-time-to.html",
        "tags": ["Health"]
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        "id": "http://focustivity.micro.blog/2024/12/22/whoop-ai.html",
        "title": "Whoop AI",
        "content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;ve been using the Whoop band for a couple of months now. My main reason for using Whoop is that I can wear it on my bicep and forget about it. Then, I get all kinds of data that I can use to improve my health.</p>\n<p>I love data. But I hate digging for it.</p>\n<p>One of the cool features is the use of AI within the Whoop app. With access to all of your data, the Whoop AI can tell you what you &ldquo;should&rdquo; be doing and give you better answers about what you did and how it impacts your health.</p>\n<p>As a casual user, I appreciate this. Without digging through the app, I can ask things like, “How much time did I spend in Zone 2 this week?” and “How much time should I spend in Zone 2 this week?” and I get direct answers based on my data.</p>\n<p>Even better, the daily insights usually provide the most relevant answers before I even need to ask them. I can see how much I should push myself today. It even provides recommendations of what workouts to do based on my past workouts. It&rsquo;s pretty useful.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-12-22T17:23:00-04:00",
        "url": "https://focustivity.blog/2024/12/22/whoop-ai.html",
        "tags": ["AI","Hardware","Health"]
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