Not cool.
Last evening, at roughly 8:30, my personalized digital fitness and health coach instructed me that if I hoped to achieve peak performance the following day, I should consider going to bed.
My life partner, Derek Rielly, maybe sensing shakiness in the quality of my life after an ill-conceived suggestion regarding a three-time surfing champion, also advised that I “focus on sleep” and calm my humors.
Not ever liking to be told what to do, I blatantly ignored the both of them, went out for a late night Korean barbecue feast, came home and watched a World War II drama featuring a small Dutch town getting brutalized by Nazis into the wee hours.
A mistake.
WHOOP knows me better than I know myself, knew I needed that shut eye as “sleep is one of the most important things a person can do to improve recovery, boost the immune system, and make fitness gains.”
The stylish black strap “recommends hours of sleep needed for optimal recovery and tracks sleep stages, disturbances, respiratory rate, and more.”
It takes nightly measurement of when light sleep is engaged, when REM, or “the mentally restorative sleep stage where a body consolidates memory and learning,” is entered, when slow wave sleep, or “the physically restorative sleep stage where a body restores muscular, cellular, and skeletal systems,” is embraced.
A modern miracle but did I listen?
Did I heed?
No.
And I barely woke up for a pre-sunrise surf, drank too much coffee and gave myself a good case of the jitters, forgot my wax, chose the wrong board for very small Great White shark infested Cardiff-by-the-Sea, went left on a right, dropped in on a SUP pilot without care, told a kindly Brazilian to buzz off then felt bad when he sweetly apologized, calling himself a “newb” in the process, came home, wrote this story then rushed off to bark at children for not employing the break-apart strategy in mathematics.
A series of unfortunate decision makings and the day has still just begun.
Performance not peak and tonight I will listen to my personal sleep coach, whose feelings are hopefully unhurt by this poor showing due intransigence.
I will be a better me tomorrow.
I know am out of venting now!!!
Yvon’s a surfing and fishing fool.
One of the only people I’ve met who know where Meziadin Junction is. And other weird corners of BC.
He does good things, to little fanfare.
In Last Chance, Idaho he said he was fishing some obscure corner of BC when a big lumberjack dude approached him in the middle of nowhere and growled: “You Yvon Chouinard?”
Yvon thought he was gonna get his ass kicked but that meeting lead to him buying and preserving some big chunk of BS somewhere.
He’s a right on soul brothah. Don’t blame him if his company has gone too corporate.
Yvon got into it to make quality gear – period.
When I go to Patagonia HQ there’s a kind of Stepford Wives vibe about the place.
Or maybe I’m just old.
Does he?
Yvon is a right on soul brothah.
Me too but I’m an aficionado of early 70s music.
The 70s were the best 30 years of my life.
Some mornings I have coffee with T____ A_____ who produced Groundhog Day.
There, I said it.
Blues Image?
Really?
Elder alert!!!!
Break out the Boomer Nets!!!!
What’s next?
Brandy?
If You Could Read My Mind?
You’re So Vain?
you two(3) gonna make whoopee tonight?
You cannot measure HRV with a bangle on either Dez and Chazzie – you have lost the plot!!!
I just read the WHOOP bullshit – it is so confusing no-one could understand what you are actually trying to achieve in HRV.
The only metric worth noting is checking regularly your avg rest HR – simply if that decreases your getting fitter!!!
If you fucking wave your arms when you talk and hence register inaccurate movement you will also impact your HRV on your fucking bangle
This WHOOP shit is the booster shot of the fitness tracker world
It’s ‘writing’ like this that makes me question my decision not to pay for Stab premium. I wish I wasn’t so tight fisted.
I gotta be honest. I don’t think writing over there is better than even this.
Does it know how many durries you smoke?
Apparently the picture on your phone is the focus of the love you are projecting out into the world. Heres my 2nd on the way https://uploads.disquscdn.c… . Barrel or not, not finding out the gender
Congrats CapWack!
Felicitations! Father of 3 girls each a joy.
Super congrats Cap! And finding out gender barrel!
Don’t write the day off yet.
Have a wank and you will feel better
I’ve jumped on the WhoopLit bandwagon without realising until Negs shamed me.
https://jamiecurrie.substac…
Welcome home.
I’m starting to think Chas fancies himself a modern day Don Draper. Selling us his life’s serial of mistakes, this time drunk on coffee and Post Korean Feast Stress Disorder. It’s a big bowl of nostalgia, which in Greek or something means something something about painful memories or something. Whoop di doo. Life’s a bowlful of Whoop, now eat it up.
But, can you really Draper? I mean really, really Don Draper?
I’m not saying you should sell Whoop drunk. I’m saying you must.
https://youtu.be/mZxenUmWsac
Challenge accepted.
I am starting think Chas biography mostly fake. It would seem unless ability to be in two places at once or Chas is much older (b: 1976) than he says. Biola Univ seems to agree.
Further effort ahead including Charlie high school.grads.
Wait. What makes you think it’s fake? Because the internet has me pegged as a dead bluegrass guitarist?
Non, there are more sophisticated abilities to discover chronology. And in US due to very lax data laws quite simple.
But what chronology is off?
To be discovered no? Perhaps none, perhaps significant. The correlation between book, online articles. residence data, voting records and tax data.
Dig in!
Crowd search, put the internet to work. Bonne chance.
I for one CAN’T WAIT to hear what whoop tells you to do next. Fingers crossed they tell you to write something surf related 🤞
I went surfing. What more do you want?
Hey Chas – I heard the next WHOOP version update will tell you when to switch from Tito’s vodka and Purps to LimonCello LaCroix water (or do I get more of a Grey Goose vibe from you?).