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Make It Simple

117. Is Your Fitness Tracker Helping or Hurting You?

Make It Simple

Andrea Allen

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Education, Fitness, How To

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Heart rate monitors, health trackers and smart watches can be empowering and amazing tools to track your personal fitness. But could it actually be causing harm to your mindset? Andrea is breaking down the pros and cons of the personal fitness trackers, and what to be aware of so you know what is right for you. Make it Simple is sponsored by Cozy EarthVisit www.cozyearth.com to get 40% off using code SIMPLE40Download Andrea's Make Fit Simple APP for a 14 day free trialhttps://www....

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0:00.0

Welcome back. I'm glad you're here today so that we can talk about health and fitness in a very realistic and empowering way.

0:07.6

I try to choose topics that make you think about your habits and if they are helping you or if they're hurting you.

0:15.1

I also try to choose topics that help you see that you may already be doing a

0:19.1

really fantastic job and you're being hard on yourself or point out things that are really tiny that can

0:24.1

help you make small steps in a different direction that add up to big results.

0:29.8

I just try to keep the topics very positive and in a way to make you really think about what you're doing and to also even appreciate what you are already doing.

0:40.0

And today's topic is going to be no different.

0:42.0

Today I want to talk about heart rate monitors or smart watches.

0:46.0

However you want to do them, there's different ways to do it, which we'll talk about in the episode.

0:50.0

But I want to talk about if these devices are actually helping you or if they're hurting you.

0:55.2

I'm going to give you pros and cons and I want you to really think about yourself.

0:59.1

Maybe you use a smart watch to track your heart rate, to track your steps, to see how often you work out,

1:05.8

to see the calories you burned, whatever it is, and maybe you don't.

1:08.9

Maybe you've just heard people talk about it and you've wondered about them and wondered

1:11.9

if it would be a good fit for you.

1:14.0

So as I talk about it today, you may decide, yes, it's a good fit or you may decide,

1:18.0

no, it's actually not a good fit for me based on the pros and cons of how people are treating these devices.

1:26.5

And as we talk about this today, please don't forget that if you find this episode helpful

1:30.6

to share it on your social media, to tag me, to write a review, let me know that you

1:35.2

enjoyed it.

1:36.2

That makes a huge difference for the podcast and our ability to grow.

1:39.5

And today I want to give a shout out to La Or LaVette. It's called Great Podcast. Love, love this podcast. I think this is the first

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