No one knows more about this topic than Dr. Andy Galpin and Brian
Mackenzie who authored the book Unplugged. A great book for those who might be on the path to technology addiction in regards to fitness. I agree with everything they say in this book so I am just going to share a few quotes and summarize the book below.
Positive=>
✔We're not saying we're against fitness technology or that you should stop using it completely, rather take a more careful approach to how you use it, when, and why. A wearable can provide
some early motivation and accountability. The problem is not technology but our misconception of what it can or will do for us, refusal to accept its limitations, and fixation on fitness tracking, which deadens our senses.
Negative=>
✔Cardio machines overestimated caloric burn by an average of 19 percent(Study conducted at UC San Francisco's Human Performance Center)
✔Multiple studies have found that activity trackers' heart
rate monitoring is only 80% accurate with higher heart rates.
✔Because their motivation was coming from an external source, removing it means that many struggle to remain being active. A Duke university study found .."those who had quit tracking ended up doing less of their given activity than the people who'd never had any numbers attached to it in the first place
✔January 2017 study( Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise) found 92 percent accuracy for tracking
calories burned during walking and running, just 40.4 % accuracy for outdoor cycling, and 0% for cycling on a stationary bike!
✔Tracking Calories burned during exercise is not only faulty, but also fails to take into account the exercise induced increase in metabolic rate. The fact that when you build muscle, you burn more energy at rest....So the just do cardio people, or group classes focused on calories burned during the session, are missing the big
picture!
✔Funny story about how one of his training partners told him to slow down or his heart would blow up, even though he was able to hold a comfortable conversation the entire time. So, yeah, it can cause you to think you are working way harder than you are if it's not accurate! And it is not!!
✔our phones, watches, and wearables promise insight, knowledge, and freedom, but what they really deliver is information overload, confusion, and servitude.
✔Despite the
promises of technology, we're sicker, more worried, and less fulfilled than ever before.
Detric Smith, CSCS, ACSM Exercise Physiologist
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