September is Self-care Consciousness Month, which offers us with the right excuse to pause and consider how effectively we’ve been caring for ourselves. There’s (nonetheless) a pandemic taking place, college is beginning again up, many roles are going again to some mixture of hybrid or in-person after months of working from dwelling — it’s loads to soak up, and it’s simple to neglect to cease and do an inner wellness test.
Fortunately, if in case you have a Garmin health watch, you’ve got a complete have a look at the way you’re doing at any given second obtainable with simply the flick of a wrist. Listed below are just some of our favourite methods to follow self-care with Garmin.
1. Keep hydrated.
You hear it on a regular basis, and but we’re going to say it anyway: drink your water. No, actually. Drink. Your. Water. Your physique wants fluids for a bunch of causes, not least of which embrace sustaining a traditional temperature, aiding digestion, defending your tissues and joints, and regulating temper. So whether or not you like to knock ’em again by the glass or slurp by a classy to-go tumbler, drink that water.
To assist keep on observe, obtain the Garmin Hydration Monitoring widget to your appropriate smartwatch to log your day by day water consumption and set reminders to make sure you meet your hydration aim by the tip of the day.
2. Watch your stress stage.
Actually — some Garmin exercise watches can help you see your present stress stage in actual time on a scale of 1 to 100. Appropriate Garmin units use coronary heart price information to measure the interval between every one in all your heartbeats. That size of time is regulated by your autonomic nervous system. Much less variability between heartbeats signifies larger stress ranges, and extra variability signifies decrease stress ranges. Cool, huh? A stress rating of 0-25 signifies your physique is in a resting state (represented in a blue colour); 26-50 signifies low stress (mild orange); 51-75 signifies medium stress (darker orange); and 76-100 is excessive stress (purple).
3. Take a while to breathe.
In case your stress stage approaches purple, that would point out a superb time to pause and take a breath. Choose Garmin smartwatches embrace a built-in breathwork exercise that can stroll you thru conscious and calming respiratory workout routines if you want a little bit assist. As you breathe, your watch will observe your stress and respiration ranges that can assist you get aligned and higher perceive how effectively your respiratory methods are working. In case your stress ranges are excessive, your watch may even ship you a chill out reminder that can immediate you to take a timeout and full a respiratory exercise.
4. Get your magnificence relaxation.
We’ve all been there — not getting sufficient sleep (or sufficient time in every sleep stage) can flip you right into a zombie the subsequent day, and it actually doesn’t do your bodily or psychological well being any favors. Getting sufficient sleep doesn’t solely show you how to to remain sharp, but it surely’s additionally crucial to your immune system. And but, so many adults don’t get the quantity of sleep they want on a constant foundation.
Enter Garmin Sleep Rating. Garmin sleep monitoring takes the guesswork out of analyzing your physique’s sleeping patterns. Appropriate watches with superior sleep monitoring can determine if you go to sleep, if you get up and when your physique enters the varied sleep phases all through the evening. Within the morning, you’ll obtain a sleep rating on a scale of 0-100 that summarizes how lengthy you slept, the standard of that sleep and the way effectively your physique was in a position to get better from the day earlier than. You’ll even get customized insights that allow you to know what you’ve completed effectively — or what you are able to do all through the day to enhance your probabilities at a greater sleep rating the subsequent evening.
5. Put aside a while to train.
Whereas Reese Witherspoon’s courtroom efficiency in Legally Blonde could be a bit extra dramatic than is relevant to your life every day, the gist is similar. Train does provide you with endorphins, and endorphins do assist to make you content.
Train can also be necessary for muscle energy, coronary heart and lung well being, power ranges and extra. From strolling to bouldering to Pilates, the exercise choices in your Garmin sport watch are almost limitless, so discover what works for you and earn these endorphins.
6. You probably have a menstrual cycle, regulate it.
How your menstrual cycle impacts your physique is a little more difficult than bleeding or not bleeding. The 4 menstrual cycle phases — menstruation, follicular, ovulation and luteal — are all hormone-driven, and realizing which section you might be in can clarify loads about what’s taking place inside your physique at any given time. By persistently utilizing Garmin Menstrual Cycle Monitoring, both from a widget in your appropriate smartwatch and/or within the Garmin Join™ app, you’ll get a greater image of your physique’s total well being — and what it’d want from you when it comes to self-care. In the event you’re pregnant or anticipating to be, the Garmin Being pregnant Monitoring will help do the identical factor.
On the whole, we imagine issues are likely to work higher when your thoughts and physique are related, and generally exercising a little bit self-care is all it takes. Don’t see your favourite self-care tactic listed above? Observe us on Instagram at @garminwellness for extra suggestions — and to allow us to in on any secrets and techniques we could be lacking.
