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I had a second episode of extremely high blood pressure in 2017. It's a long story, but I ended up being hospitalized in a cardiac surveillance unit. A big part
by hluska 9y ago
I had a second episode of extremely high blood pressure in 2017. It's a long story, but I ended up being hospitalized in a cardiac surveillance unit. A big part of my cardiac issue was that I had allowed my overall fitness to drop quite dramatically.
So, I'm working on a fitness goal app. Essentially, I track my blood pressure/heart rate along with my diet, exercise, etc. And, I'm working on finding correlations, with my end goal being that my app will help me optimize my workouts and diet to help me achieve whatever my particular fitness goal is. In this case, my goal is blood pressure related, but soon, it will be long distance running related.
Having allowed myself to get so far out of shape when I know hypertension is a problem causes me to seriously doubt whether I'm intelligent enough to pull this off.
However, my end goal isn't to build an amazing product, rather it's that if I build it, I'll be motivated to beta test it to hell. When I was being wheeled in for my angiogram, I promised myself that if I ever need another one, they'd wheel me in in marathon shape.
- Dowwie 9y agoI recorded hundreds of runs with a garmin forerunner and HRM. Aside from occasionally plotting avg pace vs avg hr over time and saying, "oh that's nice", I didn't find much value in recording. Focus on what you'll do with the data once you get it and work back from there. Good luck with lowering your blood pressure the natural way. Stay away from blood pressure meds as long as you can.
- startupflix 9y agoQuite impressive. So, have you launched the app yet? Best wishes :)
- hluska 9y agoThanks for saying that! I'm not quite ready for public consumption, but when I am, I'll do a show HN.
- startupflix 9y agoBest wishes! :)