Are Fitness Wearables Helping or Hurting Your Progress? | Ep. 344

The Macro Hour

Nikkiey Stott

Macro Hour, Fitness, Warrior Babe, Warriorbabe, Macronutrients, Health & Fitness, The Macro Hour, Nikkiey Stott

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Wearables like the Apple Watch, Oura Ring, and Whoop provide powerful insights into sleep, recovery, and performance—but are we relying on them too much? In this episode of The Macro Hour, Nikkiey Stott breaks down the key metrics that can actually help improve your training and recovery—like HRV, sleep quality, resting heart rate, and readiness scores. She also explores the potential downsides of constant tracking, including losing trust in your body’s signals or becoming overly dependent on...

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0:00.0	wearables can be an incredible tool. They can also be another way to be absolutely obsessive,
0:06.1	anxious, and disconnected from your own body. And for women especially, women who may have already
0:11.0	may already have like a complicated relationship with food or with a scale or with their body or
0:15.7	performance or their perfectionist mindset. If that's you, like, we need to take this seriously.
0:22.4	Orthosomnia, researchers have coined this term for people who have become so obsessed with getting
0:27.9	a perfect sleep score that the anxiety around it starts disrupting their sleep. Like, you're laying
0:33.0	in bed and you're stressed out about whether you're going to hit your deep sleep number or not,
0:36.6	your deep sleep quota.
0:37.8	And that is the opposite of what this is supposed to do for you.
0:41.3	Like if you're doing these things at a punishment, that means that these tools aren't
0:44.9	helping you in your journey.
0:51.5	Hey, hey, everyone.
0:53.2	What's going on? Welcome back to another episode of The Macro Hour,
0:57.7	where we talk about mindset, methodologies, and tactics that will help you lose body fat,
1:02.8	build muscle, be strong, and feel insanely confident. I'm your host, Nikki Stott,
1:07.9	and welcome, my friends, to episode number 344. And today, we're going to get into
1:14.8	something that I know every single one of you either owns or has thought about buying or has
1:19.9	contemplated your relationship with it. And that's your wearables. So we're going to talk about whether you have an aura ring or you have an
1:30.7	Apple Watch or you got a whoop or you got Garmin. Whatever's on your wrist or whatever's on your finger,
1:36.5	that's a topic that we're going to dive into today. Because here's the thing. This technology
1:40.9	is literally the number one fitness trend right now, like 2026, 2025,
1:47.7	2024.
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