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Chapter 7: The Dark Side of Fitness Tracking
As you can see then, fitness tracking can absolutely revolutionize your training. It does this by taking the kind of ‘shotgun’ approach you might be using at the moment and transforming it into a fine scalpel or a laser. You now use math and numbers to make sure you’re getting the precise amount of exercise you need, that you’re not eating too much and that you’re training in the most efficient manner. You keep an eye on the numbers and you can know with certainty whether you’re going to lose weight or not.
But there are downsides to fitness tracking too and you do need to be a little careful in some respects.
One pitfall for instance is the possibility that you end up reliant on your fitness tracking devices. This can then be a problem if your fitness device should break and you trust it whole heartedly. Imagine for instance that your device goes mad and starts telling you that you have a resting heartrate of 140bpm. You might now start worrying about your health, skipping the gym and potentially eating less carefully seeing as you’ll probably be burning ’10,000 calories a day’.
Of course no one has a resting BPM that high and in this case, it’s more likely that your device is just damaged. What’s key is that you recognize this possibility and don’t just believe it.
The solution in this case? Listen to your body. Use your intuition and learn to feel what a high heart rate is like and what a low heart rate is like. If your fitness tracker is telling you one thing and your body is telling you another, check it by taking your pulse the old fashioned way!
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