I used to obsess over logging every bit of exercise, until one day I left my smartwatch behind and the game started to feel like ... a game.
March 3, 2022
For many of us, these things are intrinsically connected. I’ve done my fair share of digging into our cultural obsession with thinness, fitness and food, and their lifelong impact on how I think about my body and my self-worth. While I’ve let go of much of that baggage, certain habits linger. Take, for example, my dutiful tracking of exercise on my smartwatch and phone. Obsessing over my step count and logging every bit of exercise is as much of a daily ritual as walks with my dogs .
The first time I forgot to wear my Apple Watch to a pickleball lesson, I panicked. “If a workout happens but isn’t tracked” suddenly became my own personal “If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it.” During class I fidgeted with my paddle, riddled with angst over my naked wrist.
At another lesson Roland made a declaration to our group. “There is no more saying ‘sorry’ in pickleball.” Shockingly, I learned I am not the only person who dreads making mistakes around other people. So my friends and I practiced something new that day: screwing up on the court and living with it.
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