If anyone here has an Apple Watch and knows or suspects that they got COVID in the past year, open the Health app on your phone and look up your "v02 Max" figure on the Watch. This is a machine-learning guesstimate of how efficiently your lungs process oxygen.
(this was a huge letdown, back in September I had started a jumprope program in hopes of driving this number up, despite reading that v02-max is nearly hard-wired to a individual’s physiology)
Do you think you think it might be worth getting assessed by medical professionals before getting too disappointed ?
I have a Garmin watch and it does some pretty weird thing. My heart rate is super high apparently sometimes, it can tell me it's 180 during warmup when I'm hardly breaking a sweat, then go back down to 100 out of nowhere.
Maybe my heart is not working properly but I tend to think it's the "smart watch" doing funny things. The chest HRM seems more accurate but definitely not perfect because it relies on sweat for good conductivity.
Yeah, of course Apple and everyone else is always reminding us "this is not FDA-approved medical blah blah"
I'm aware that none of this is medical-grade, but every chance I get, I'll compare the data to actual clinical measurements and I've never seen anything more than a fraction of a percent off. Furthermore, the numbers from the Watch show clear trends; if the data was scattered or random, I would think that's "doing funny things." A clear change in data mere days after a COVID diagnosis… that's not a coincidence, c'mon.
Here's a quick look at my measurements over the past six months, would you like to guess when I tested positive for COVID? http://whiskyvangoghgo.com/images/v02max.jpeg
(this was a huge letdown, back in September I had started a jumprope program in hopes of driving this number up, despite reading that v02-max is nearly hard-wired to a individual’s physiology)