Fitness Apps

To summarize why I use health apps on my phone is for the convenience and for phone capabilities like GPS tracking, barcode scanning, and the mobile internet connection.
This is why I log my food, pushups, and tai-chi with MyFitnessPal and my outdoor cardio workouts with RunKeeper.

The reason the tracking and logging is important to me, is because I want to share my results with my friends, family, and most importantly my doctors.
This is why I log everything into Google.com/Health

I use MyFitnessCompanion on my phone, because if I'm Checking my blood pressure or getting lab results, this mobile app is convenient.  Most importantly, it automatically syncs the info with Google Health.

I use the 100Pushups app on my phone because it coaches me through doing pushups.  It has helped improve the number I can do.  It doesn't log results, so I have to re-enter it into MyFitnessPal and Google Health.

If MyFitnessPal, RunKeeper, and 100Pushups could all sync with Google Health (the way MyFitnessCompanion does), this would make my life much easier.  I would be willing to pay a chunk of money for that convenience.  Let me repeat that... I will pay you, fitness app companies.  As much as I appreciate your free apps, I will drop you in an instant for companies who sync.  I will pay them too, even if they don't work as well.  So please, take my money and give me that convenience.

Self improvement? Naaaaaa!

Today I forgot to take my pills, so my attitude is different then it should be.

Ever notice there is a lot of goal setting on life?  A lot of goals for 110% and all that?  Many jobs are all about removing the human trend of "flaw" by always recognizing our imperfections and reminding us about our constant opportunities for improvement.

I get the game plan.  Aim for 110% so that you score a 95% and still ace the fucker.  But come on, who wants to always feel like there is always room for improvement... Even if there is?

I get tired of that real fast.  I think because I'm content with being "okay" at stuff.  I don't buy into that "If you're not first, you're last" bullshit.  Everyone can't be the best.  I accept "mediocrity" as a triumph over "sucking."

I'm not saying we should keep doing things that don't work just because we dont want to change.

I don't know what I'm saying.

Ever read the book "Who Moved My Cheese?"  Well, its bullshit.  Read it.  If you like its message, you probably don't get where I'm coming from.  If you think its crap, I applaud your ability to see in-between the black and white world of pessimism and optimism.

This is me without drugs.  Tune in next time when I'm all jacked up on Ritalin and happy pills!