Episode 3 - Gear and Gallbladders

The Morrissey Movement

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Morrissey movement, the purpose of this podcast to discuss and share one aspect of fitness and one aspect of medicine. Being a general surgeon and a garage gym athlete, I have a strong passion for both of these aspects of life. So sit back and enjoy the show. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. I am in no way forming a patient doctor relationship. All the aspects discussed in this podcast are medically accurate, you should always discuss with your doctor any questions that you may have about the content, you should always discuss with your doctor before starting any new exercise or dietary changes. Hey, what's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Morrissey movement where movement is medicine. This is episode three. So the title of this episode is called gear and gallbladders. So hopefully it's gonna be another good show. I appreciate everybody downloading and listening to my previous podcasts. And again, if you feel like you can give a rating please do so so we can reach more listeners. Before we get started. I'm going to just give a quick little shout out to our sponsor of the week, which is called Dad Life Tees. I'm actually the CFO of this company, my brother and I formed a little dad life T Shirt Company. So if you're are a dad or you have a dad and you'd like to get a t shirt, feel free to go to our website at www.dadlifetees.com. There's quite a few pretty cool products on there that you can get your hands on. So anyway, we'll go ahead and get started with the show today. So I'm going to start off with talking about gear first. Even though in the previous podcasts I've done the medical aspect first. So today I'm going to review some of the different fitness type of gear that one could purchase and use. The ones that I'm choosing to talk about today are the Garmin watches. I'm going to go over a few of the different kinds of watches and all the different functions that you can get on these type of equipment. I'm also going to talk about the Apple Watch, the Oura ring and also the whoop. So I have actually used all of these products except for the whoop so I am just going to basically talk about what it entails but I have no personal experience. And again, these are all my own entities and not my entities my own experiences with these products. So I'm going to talk about kind of the differences in them and give you my opinion at the end of which ones I feel are better. So I'm gonna start off with the Garmin watch. So the company a Garmin Ltd was established back in 1989 by a guy named Gary Purell with someone else named Min k. O. K O as makers of GPS devices for aviation and automobiles. They later decided to expand their GPS for sports and wearable technology to the point where they're best known for their activity trackers and smartwatches. The reputation has grown over the last many years to where they compete with more established companies such as Fitbit and apple. Fitness watches have a number of fitness sensors and features for recording steps taken monitoring your sleep monitoring your heart rate and many more things. So some of the Garmin watches that are going to kind of be briefly talked about today is the four runner series, the Vivoactive series, the vivo move, HR, the vivo fit and the Phoenix. So one website that I had was looking at these different things. They read it the top five Garmin watches as the Garmin Forerunner 35 The Garmin vivo HR GPS smartwatch, the Garmin vivo three GPS smartwatch, the Garmin instinct rugged outdoor watch with GPS, the Garmin vivo move HR sport hybrid smartwatch. And I'm actually going to add one which is the Garmin Phoenix, I actually have the Garmin Phoenix six Pro which has a solar charger on this as well. So I'm going to give a few brief different little qualities of each of these watches. So the Garmin five four runner three, I'm sorry 35 Watch. It'll check your heart rate from your wrist during the day and the night making use of the Garmin elevate wrist heart monitor technology. It has GPS which tracks your speed, distance and the place where you run. It has features such as smart alerts, live tracking music controls, and direct and automatic uploads to Garmin Connect which is Garmins tool for tracking your fitness activities. I track your movement throughout the day, such as the number of steps you take the calories that you consume, and gives you the reminder to move if you're idle for too long. It automatically uploads your information to the Garmin website to display your progress and also let you set your fitness goals. So that is the

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that is the Garmin For runner 35 Watch sorry about that. The next minute is briefly talked about as the Garmin Vivoactive HR GPS smartwatch. So this has high resolution touchscreen that can read even in the sunlight the screen resolution is 205 by 140 pixels. This can be used for tracking, biking, running and swimming even without a smartphone. This allows you to select the watch face from a wide range of styles. You can also download apps from the Garmin control IQ store. It also sends you alerts to your smartphone. The next one is Garmin Vivoactive three GPS smartwatch. The physical dimensions of this device is 43.4 by 43.4 by 11.7 millimeters. It'll fit on the wrist sizes from 127 to 204 millimeters, the screen resolution is 240 by 240 pixels. It has more than 15 pre loaded pre loaded GPS has sports apps, it can also measure oxygen consumption and has a stress monitor. The next one is a Garmin instinct rugged outdoor watch with GPS. This is built to be like a military grade specifications and has thermal shock and water resilience to withstand the elements. It provides smart notifications and as a global satellite navigation capability. It also features a three axis compass and a barometric altimeter, and a number of global navigation satellite systems that can track your heart rate activity and stress reminding you to keep up your pace than the last one that was reviewed on the website that I chose to use as the Garmin vivomove HR sport hybrid smartwatch. It's more of a traditional watch, Facebook gives you fitness information, and alerts by means of the touchscreen. It checks your heart rate monitor sleep count steps and measures calories burned. It gives you stress alerts over the course of the day reminding you to take a break from the action. It also allows you to share data and compete with other people via the Garmin Connect app. So the final verdict based off this website, talking about Garmin fitness watches are a popular and convenient innovation to make fitness training easier. Before making a decision, you need to determine what you really need or what options that you really want. I'm going to add to the final part of this, which is the Garmin Phoenix six, I feel it was the most data tracking watch. There's multiple different preloaded workouts that are on here. There's a walk, there's run, there's like a CrossFit style hit. There's treadmills there's bike, indoor bike, outdoor, there's open water swim, there's pool swim, there's strength, there's cardio, you can also build multiple workouts within the Garmin Connect app itself, I have a free a few pre loaded workouts on here that I will use from time to time, especially some different runs, you can actually pre program it. So it'll tell you, if you want to do intervals, it'll tell you to stop, it'll tell you to start, it'll keep track of your of your distance. And then once you're all done, you can go into the Garmin app and it does a whole lot of different things such as stride breakdown, it'll tell you the percentage, the amount of time you're using your right leg versus your left leg, it'll give you your lap intervals. So it'll give you your average mile time. It'll give you your specific mile time, if you're doing multiple mile runs. It'll talk about the elevation, how high you went up, it'll give you temperature, it'll give you your average heart rate. It'll also track your different zones of running, which is zones one through five, which I'll cover on a different podcast in the future. So me personally, having used an Apple Watch, which is I'm going to review here in just a second versus the Garmin watch, I feel the Garmin watch is has much more data than the Apple Watch actually tracks I also use a Garmin pro heart rate strap. So if I'm going to go out doing any type of running, or any type of other cardio events, I always wear my heart my chest strap because it's more accurate, especially if you're running in heart rate zones and it just keeps track of more data for you. I feel that it's better in my opinion. So the Apple Watch which I was also an Apple Watch user for quite some time until I recently switched to Garmin within the last year or so. So the Apple Watch has a ton of different functions also. And I'll go through some of these that I retrieved from the internet just so I didn't forget anything. So the heart rate monitor. It's both has an optical and an electrical heart rate sensor. Pairing these two offers great accuracy anytime you need it. The Apple Watch will constantly monitor your heart rate and let you know if there are any abnormalities either high or low beats per minute.

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There's an EKG feature on there which will actually take a small rhythm strip of your Apple Watch. So if you're having any type of symptoms, which is like pounding in your chest or it feels like your heart is skipping beats or having palpitations, you can actually do a little EKG rhythm strip this data can actually be sent to your doctor if he had to set up with them to make decisions about your health. Now again, this is not by any means replacing any type of medical grade equipment to monitor your heart rate. But this is something that can be helpful for people, especially if they do have a history of palpitations of their heart or a condition called atrial fibrillation. So the Apple Watch is designed to pick up on this only it will not actually analyze any other cardiac rhythms such as ventricular tachycardia, or supraventricular tachycardia, svt, or any type of those other medically alarming heart irregularities. There's also the Apple Watch six added up blood oxygen monitoring. So you can actually monitor the oxygen level in your blood, which is measured in a percentage in your heart and your red blood cells. It's fairly accurate, but again, does not take the place of any type of medical grade monitoring devices. There's also a really cool feature called fall detection. So if you have a sudden fall while wearing your Apple Watch, it'll send a notification to a designated SOS contact on your phone to let them know that you might need help. Moreover, if you don't respond, after 60 seconds, the watch will automatically call the police and share your location. Though this could also be on the con list in case you set it off by accident. I actually read an article about a year ago about a physician that his father was in his 70s I believe he's out mountain biking somewhere in the mountains. And he actually did have a fall. And the Apple Watch actually saved his life by detecting this and sending a alert to him and also to the police where they're able to come and find him after he fell off his bike in the mountains. So that's pretty cool. Also, sleep tracking. There's a separate sleep app on your on your Apple Watch, it allows you to create a bedtime schedule that will reflect your sleep goals. However, you do have to wear the watch over night, which can be good, it can be bad, you can track your night's sleep. I actually feel this is not that great of a feature. And I'll go into more detail about this in a little bit. But it is an option. However, with the Apple Watch, you do kind of have to charge your watch every night. So it would make it difficult to monitor your sleep. Also, you have to wear your watch while you sleep, which I find is kind of annoying. So that's just another option for you though. Supposedly, this will not affect me. But you can track your menstrual cycle with the Apple watch for those people that do min straight. So again, I do not. The Apple Watch has an app to monitor your cycles that are recorded symptoms like cramps, headaches, and fatigue. And you can use this information to build up a prediction when your symptoms will return and your ovulation window if you're trying to conceive, monitor noise levels, there's a built in microphone on the Apple Watch to listen to ambient sounds and levels in decibels via the noise app. It'll tell you if anything goes beyond what is healthy for your hearing. If you're using headphones a lot, it'll automatically turn the volume down at a point in time where continuing with the volume at the level you had could start causing damage. There's a hand washing feature, which you can have a 22nd hand wash counter which is on the Apple Watch. Also, things to the Coronavirus, the Apple Watch can detect if you're starting to wash your hands and will encourage you to continue for a minimum of 20 seconds. It'll also remind you if you haven't to wash your hands shortly after arriving home, which is kind of a cool feature. Some of the other smart features on the Apple Watch phone calls you can actually receive and or even make phone calls from your Apple Watch without being near your phone. On the cellular models with Wi Fi modes, you would need your phone in your pocket or have it nearby to make calls. You can also read and reply to text messages including emails, which is kind of cool. You can use voice to text pre loaded responses or if you have the patient's using the pad you can type or write responses one letter at a time which is again in this day and age kind of annoying. The other thing you can kind of do you can do with your with your Apple Watches, you can do Apple Pay. So there's a contactless payment option. That's even more convenient. Since Apple Pay was released, you don't even have to get out your phone out of your pocket, you can simply call your card up on your watch display.

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Hold it near a card reader, though this does require the passcode to be enabled. Another cool thing you can do with your Apple Watch is you can unlock your MacBook if you have one. So it does pair nicely with Apple products. I actually have a MacBook but I've never used this feature. So I don't know how well this works. But for other people it actually works really well which is kind of cool. If you have Apple TV, you can use your watch as an Apple Remote to run and turn on your Apple TV. iPhone camera remote, you can also use your eye watch as a remote switch for your iPhone. So if you want to take photo, you can set up a timer so it'll automatically go off so you don't have to set that up on your phone. You can also monitor the battery life. On other devices. If you have an Apple ecosystem, you can actually monitor your devices like air pods, or Beats headphones. It'll do it via Bluetooth and give you the battery status. There's also another kind of cool feature which is a walkie talkie feature. You can pick a friend that has an Apple Watch and set up a walkie talkie feature to send voice notifications automatically that'll play on the others watch, unless they have a silent feature set up, you can tell your person any type of messages that you would like to do if you choose to do so you can also control smart appliances in your home from your Apple Watch. Excuse me, if you have an Opel, I'm sorry, a HomeKit enabled devices are gone. You can control it with your Apple watch things like smart plugs, lights, heating blinds, cameras, garage doors, you name it, this is another cool feature that you can do. One of the probably coolest features of the Apple Watch is the Find your iPhone. If you're like me, and you set your phone down and you have no clue where you left it, you can use your Apple Watch to ping your phone. And it'll flash and make noise. So you're able to easily find this, which is really nice. There's an always on display. So you can set it up to where your Apple Watch is always on. But you can also set it up to shut it off after a certain amount of time if it is inactive. If your kids actually have an Apple Watch, which none of mine actually do, but there's a school time feature that you can actually set it up for hours of school so that it's not disturbed and can't distract them and completely limits the features in the app so they can have access to but you can still send them a text and get ahold of them if needed. You can also get the time in more ways than just visually use either the traditional visual form or sound and Pat and haptic. Of course using the sound gives you a chime the lateral vibrate in a certain pattern with no sound and without needing to wake up the display. If you happen to know Morse code, so does the Apple Watch so you can actually have it tell you what time it is in that fashion. You can also use Siri with your Apple Watch with built in commands so you can do virtually anything with Siri. If it's set up to your other devices, you can connect to a Bluetooth speaker with your Apple Watch. So if you happen to have music stored on your phone, or I'm sorry on your Apple Watch you can actually play it in via bluetooth speaker. You can also see in the dark with this there's a an LED flashlight that you can turn on on your Apple Watch. It's pretty neat if you're happen to be in a room without your phone you can turn on the bright LED light and be able to see what you're doing. There's also location sharing which the Apple Watch you can use to kind of see where you are in the map if you share your GPS location with a friend that also has an Apple Watch, they can see this on their Apple Watch maps. There's also a compass there's also an elevation built in altimeter to to kind of tell you where you're if you're ascending or descending. It's also water resistant. So I believe it's up to 100 meters if I remember right. So you can go swimming with this and also can can you can track your swimming if you're doing some type of workout. So those are kind of all the pros that are listed but the Apple Watch the cons. It is expensive, you know runs around $400 It only works with iPhones. So if you're a Samsung person or Google phone or something like that, you really can't use your Apple watch for that. The battery life it's roughly 17 to 18 hours so you do have to charge it every day. Which is sort of annoying. You can get interchangeable bands they are somewhat expensive. With that so so that's the Apple Watch. Like I said I was a big apple watch user for a while. However I have switched to Garmin, the Apple Watch was nice to it communicates with your iPhone, way better than the Garmin does. It streams music you

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can do all the texting everything like I listed above. So the Garmin, the Garmin Phoenix six that I have it does not locate your iPhone very well streaming music this is not very good for this either. So those are kind of my biggest complaints about the Garmin watch is that your compatibility with your iPhone is not nearly as sexy and nice as the high watches. So if you're not really a big data person, and you love it to function with your iPhone, I would say an Apple Watch is probably better in this instance but if you're wanting way more data on your exercise and workouts, I would say Garmin is superior to this. Now another thing I'm going to cover today is the aura rang, which I actually have also, I have probably had the aura ring for approximately a year and a half I did by the generation two and when it was, was my first aura ring. And they reached recently upgraded to the aura ring generation three, which is a little bit...