apple watch, atrial fibrillation
All has been going very well, my AF burden has reduced from around 30-35% to less than 2%. I've been slowly building up my exercise, I did manage to return to hockey which was most enjoyable. I also got out…
apple watch, atrial fibrillation, cycling
So I'm just about 4 months post surgery so posting an update. Everything was going well, I came off most of the drugs and just stayed on bisoprolol 2.5mg twice a day. I started walking on the 23rd June, two…
apple watch, atrial fibrillation, cycling
This is a major update since my first post here, I'll backfill the years in between and update the links. At the end of 2024 and into 2025 I was getting more and more episodes of Atrial Fibrillation (afib). Some…
apple watch, atrial fibrillation, cycling, Uncategorized
So after stopping flecaininde as detailed in part 3 I continued to enjoy sport. I ran, did some parkruns, used TrainerRoad and Zwift for cycling as well as the "fine weather" cycling outdoors. I continued to play hockey and was…
apple watch, atrial fibrillation
Since my ablation in 2019 I stopped competing and training for triathlon and knocked everything back loads. Please note that what I say in this article is not medical advice on reducing or stopping any drugs you have been prescribed.…
apple watch, atrial fibrillation, cycling
Post my 2nd ablation in September 2019 I weaned off the drugs by the end of Oct 2019 and slowly built-up exercising. My first activity 3 weeks post ablation was a 30 minute Zwift gentle spin, my HR max was…
apple watch, atrial fibrillation, cycling
I've been on the Atrial fibrillation journey since 2018, and have learnt a lot so thought I'd best start writing some things down to try and help anyone else. It's often quite a frightening thing to discover when first diagnosed.…
I recently walked the Yorkshire 3 peaks, running the Workoutdoors app to provide the route. I was very pleasantly surprised to end the walk with 37% battery left after being out in the Dales for 10hrs and 20 minutes! I…
I’ve been using the Apple Watch series 5 now for a few months and heart accuracy has definitely dipped during colder runs. Sadly I no longer trust it during the winter. The picture below shows the first 7km of a…
Another tick in the box for the Apple Watch 5 after moving away from a Garmin 945 as it performed very well whilst skiing over the past 2 days. Battery usage for 6 hours skiing was only 40%, using the…
So all in all my switch from a host of Garmin watches to an Apple Watch has mostly been a good experience. Apart from heart rate whilst running. It seems very susceptible to dropping the heart rate or not picking…
Since moving from a Garmin 945 to an Apple Watch 5, I've been using WorkOutdoors as my goto GPS app. The more I use and learn about it the more impressed I am! I noted a few tips within this…
I’ve been using WorkOutDoors as my goto GPS app and used it walking the dogs tonight. Zooming in and I’m really impressed, it shows the exact moment I crossed the road, and then where my dogs went to a grass…
In a view to simplifying what I carry around I am wanting to see if the Apple Watch ECG is good enough to check if my heart is in sinus rhythm after a catheter ablation to try and cure my…
I've been using Garmin watches for triathlon and training for a number of years. I started with the Forerunner 735 which was great and had no issues at all. My issues started when I upgrade to a Forerunner 935, I…
