🌱 apple health data

under construction 🚧

inspo:

https://python-graph-gallery.com/streamchart-basic-matplotlib/

ideas

workout data doesn’t just tell a story of
- performance but is also very much tied to
- physical and mental journey
- ⇒ signals of internal states

core theme:

reading life through workouts, wounds and recovery 📚

draft) the workout diary project

metrics:

type of exercise
- 📊 cardio, weight, others
- 📊 inside vs. outside
amount
- 📊 quantity, frequency
- 📊 consistency
- 📊 intensity (bpm)
- VO2max?
qualitative data
- ✍ goals, intent
- ✍ motivation level
- ✍ joy level
- ✍ emotions, mindset, mental narrative

other plots to fit?

📊 most active day, most active hours
intensity = ???
performance = ???
consistency = ???
potentially add the climbing sessions manually too! since i never got to record them

Introduction
- Theme — self-understanding
  - “reading life through workouts, wounds and recovery 📚”
- Preface — my personal journey and lived experience
- Define scope
  - Little field note
    - describe how you got the data and how you process it
  - Timeframe and life context
    - 2021-01-13
    - 2025-11-06
    - 1053 ish rows
    - map to
      - career/work,
      - location,
      - covid,
      - life events/emotional state
Chapter 1: (The foundation) The macro / holistic view
- ⇒ identify major seasons/eras/arcs in my fitness life
- ✅ 0- All workout + counts + my style?
  - overview of fitness journey
    - 📊 bar chart or pie chart of all workout + count
  - aggregated by year to see which year was the most active
    - 📊 bar chart (y) count per year (x)
      - → what year?
    - 📊 stacked bar chart (y) count + type of workout per year (x)
      - more detailed with type of workout, still by year
  - optional: could try to do by month too
    - and add the day/hour here? optional for sure
- ✅ 1- Workout calendar (timeline, heatmap)
  - insights: seasons, activity, hibernation
    - 📊 1 heatmap all years grouped
      - 📊 by month bar chart, to see how this drops too throughout the months — december is for sure the calmest month and summer seems most active
    - 📊 N heat maps yearly
      - natural seasons → winter, spring, summer, winter ?
      - beginning of the year resolution vs. end vs. summer shred
      - any pattern?
- ✅ 2- Zoom on the workouts
  - insights: the type of workout, the amount depending on the seasons too
    - 📊 pie charts for each year, top 5 activities
      - 3 arcs: 21 - (22-23-24) - 25
    - 📊 line chart for evolution of top 5 activities
Chapter 2: (The stress) Body under stress — injuries, mental health, unhealthy relationship with workout/diet/fitness
- ⇒ identify and discuss correlation between health and workout + add emotional/psychology aspects to that
- ✅ 0- Physical injuries 🔍
  - environment change
    - 📊 pie or bar for inside vs. outside vs. gym vs. home workout
    - 🔍 or any big hiatus, shift?
  - type of workouts
    - 📊 zoom on running? → intensity drop to address injury!
      - indoor vs. outdoor
      - Stats_HeartRate_average
      - Stats_DistanceWalkingRunning_sum
      - Stats_ActiveEnergyBurned_sum
      - NO COMBINED METRICS YET!
      - graphs on the evolution of this with line plots of key metrics
      - bar chart for volume as a comparison too? idk
- ✅ 1- Mental health, Eating Disorder 🔍
  - intensity and volume
    - 📊 COMBINED METRICS → “intensity score” or whatever
      - maybe can compute a sort of intensity score? not just amount/vol, but type included right
  - performance
    - 🔍 to dig more, but any correlation between performance/volume/intensity and heart rate/pace?
      - e.g. still a lot done, but the quality wasn’t even as good, struggling for sure, no pleasure, just torture
  - rigidity vs. flexibility
    - 🔍 Consistency… rigidity… flexibility — difficult line to draw honestly
- ✅ 2- Emotional connection
  - control, anxiety, punishment
    - 🔍 any long session of cardio?
    - 🔍 endless, stacked workout sessions?
    - 🔍 nervous energy workout for sure (HIIT lol)
      - 🔍 pushing the bpm to highhhhh levels for sure
    - 🔍 what the rest day to work day ratio? Workout Days : Rest Days
      - 📊 ratio Workout Days : Rest Days
Chapter 3: (The healing) Arc of recovery
- ✅ 1- intensity + type + slowly getting back to prior activities but with consciousness and experience / lessons learnt
  - Rehab with more flexibility activity for sure
    - strengthening the muscles around my knee, it’s been better
  - 🔍 introduction of lower impact / gentle activities + new activities too! ⇒ enjoying the journey
    - flexibility
    - hiking
    - climbing
    - swimming
    - → making peace with life and body, enjoying life rather than treating it as a “thing to look good”
  - 🔍 bpm is lower hi hi ⇒ no longer an escape
    - 📊 line chat bpm over the year / boxplot by year?
- ?? 2- emergence of rest, flexibility, consciousness — no longer an escape
  - 2024 honestly ZZZ
  - 2025 healing for sure
  - 🔍 flexibility vs. rigidity → look at std for the metrics
    - can be start time consistency
  - 🔍 Workout Days : Rest Days
  - → honestly picking past things back up but in a more conscious and gentle way and mindset for sure
- mental narrative, healing, peace
  - how i feel?
Conclusion — a letter to my previous selves
- to my 202X [1-5]