fitness trackers

Why I wear a fitness tracker

Wearing a fitness tracker is one of the easiest ways to establish and maintain an active lifestyle. It’s habit-forming and once you get used to seeing your progress each day, you won’t want to stop. In addition to automatically logging your physical and biometric activity, it doubles as a motivational tool. Apple Watch is known for sending messages periodically reminding wearers to stand up and my Fitbit just congratulated me for taking 10,000 steps. These

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Why I don’t wear a fitness tracker

I’ve been interested in the growing body of research on quantification for more than a decade, almost from the first article I read about tracking and measuring our bodily functions, movement, sleep, food and more to achieve peak performance. For the most part I just haven’t been interested in doing it myself.  When I was in my 20s, I struggled with my weight. Three times I lost 30 pounds – a huge feat, but I

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