Is it time to stop using your fitness tracker?

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The latest wearable devices monitor your sleep, your recovery, your workout intensity and more. Access to this information is not always positive, and some experts warn the gadgets could be hindering, not helping, your fitness.

that used to exist between medical devices and consumer products. Information that was formerly confined to doctor’s offices — such as heart rate variability and sleep patterns — are now lifestyle products. The benefit of these blurred lines is that we have more information at hand about our own health; the drawback is that we’re left to our own devices to interpret and analyze the information we collect.Leela R.

“Some of my patients who suffer from anxiety disorders experience distress when they view their heart rate and breathing patterns,” Magavi said. She advises patients who struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder or disordered eating to avoid purchasing trackers.If your tracker has led you to an unhealthy place, Gaudreau and Rumsey say it’s time to learn how to check in with your body and monitor your activity without one.

You can also check in with yourself if you decide to go for a run or take a walk without a tracker telling you how far you’ve gone or how many calories you’ve burned. Instead, tune into your body while you exercise. How do your legs feel? Do you have a time when you want to speed up? Do you have a time where you want to slow down? Follow these instincts and see how you feel.

 

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Not a fitness tracker problem here. Let's not discourage people from having more information about their body. Perhaps what they need is education and a better understanding of what motivates their behavior

I mostly use mine as a watch. The steps are on there, but I don't really care about them

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facebook and the ZUCK are monitoring your sleep now to control you.

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