This weekend I climbed Mount Shasta which has been a dream of mine for a while now. I wanted to wait until I hit my fitness goals so I was in peak physical condition. The plan was to drive up to Shasta City (5 hours), and then crash in the parking lot until the morning. [...]
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I did a bunch of research tonight on using oximiters and heart rate monitors for helping to diagnose sleep apnea. I think I might have a mild sleep apnea. I was diagnosed before but the sleep lab was so pathetic that I just completely wrote off the results and never really went back. It turns [...]
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I really hate it when mainstream media covers lame science. This study recently done at the University of Pennsylvania is interesting but not really helpful. For starters. It was VERY small…. dozens of subjects: In what was the longest sleep-restriction study of its kind, Dinges and his lead author, Hans Van Dongen, assigned dozens of [...]
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I have some initial conclusions from my ~2 weeks of sleep experiments. – A pitch black room does increase my perceived sleep quality. I remember my dreams more and seem to have more dreams in general. – The blue blocker sunglasses don’t seem to yield any meaningful result for me. This might be because of [...]
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Wow. This is really slick. The new Sony Ericsson Xperia phones have Ant+ integrated directly into the phone hardware. This is huge as it means that more support for ANT+ will hopefully be forthcoming and other vendors I am pleased to announce that the much anticipated ANT API for Android has now been released. The [...]
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Tagged: ant+, cycling, fitness, quantifiedself
Here’s the data I have so far on tracking down my ideal sleep patterns. – Too much caffeine is bad. Causes me to feel horrible in the morning, over sleep, etc. – Too little caffeine is bad too. Causes me to wake up in the middle of the night with the inability to get back [...]
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Tagged: fitness, quantifiedself, sleep
This is my 3rd day sleeping in an environment which is 100% pitch black with no interruptions (no sound). My bike rides have seen a marked improvement in their subjective ride quality. I also feel a bit more rested in the afternoons. What’s more amazing are that my dreams are now amazingly vivid! For the [...]
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Tagged: health, quantifiedself, sleep, zeo
One of my big goals has been to try to get my sleep down to 5 hours of sleep per night. A few years ago I was able to hit a zen mode for about 1 month where I was only sleeping 5 hours per night. I’ve since been trying to duplicate that. The theory [...]
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I rigorously track my food and fitness with as many tools as possible. However, right now it’s a HORRIBLE mismash of technologies that don’t talk to each other. Here’s what I currently use, or potentially use, and I want them ALL wirelessly communicating with each other without having to manually enter the data across websites. [...]
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I wanted to write this post as I’ve been addicted to quantifying my life since I started to become addicted to fitness over the last 18 months. I wanted to drop a bunch of weight and get more fit as I became more addicted to mountain climbing and backpacking (and spending more time in Yosemite). [...]
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