Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about how to use and how not to use fitness wearables.

If you've been following this podcast, you know that I'm not a big fan of fitness watches and I've done

podcast in the past about that and I'll explain some of the reasons why I'm not a

huge fan of fitness watches in this

and I'm not, there are some newer wearables that are showing promise and don't have some of the problematic features.

And so I wanted to talk about those and kind of give my updated opinion on some of the newer

wearables.

And then if you have a wearable, I want to help you use that wearable in the most effective way possible.

So about three years ago when I started this whole exploration of trying to take better care of myself

and trying not to wear my body into the ground in my

fitness routine. One of the first things I did was I got rid of my fitness watch

because as I was being more gentle with my body and I was feeling better and I was seeing better results,

I was noticing that gosh I'm not burning that many calories and in the past I was so obsessed with my fitness watch.

If I didn't track my workout, it didn't count. If I didn't track my workout, it didn't count. If I

didn't burn enough calories, it didn't count. I would literally drive back

home to get my fitness watch if I forgot it on the way to my workout. And what I

found is that again, even if I did have a really good workout,

like my muscles were fatigued and I felt worked in all the right ways,

if I didn't burn enough calories,

I would feel the need to go do more.

I would even do jumping jacks in my apartment at the end of the day if I didn't burn enough throughout my day or in my workout.

So here's why this is a terrible way to spend your energy and

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