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Embrace Your Real

Fitness Trackers: Helpful or Harmful?

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

A fitness tracker is a wearable device designed to monitor and track various aspects of your physical activity and health, such as steps taken, calories burned, heart rate, and sleep patterns. It serves as a valuable tool to stay motivated, set fitness goals, and maintain a healthy lifestyle. However, there has been debate regarding their actual benefits or drawbacks.
 
In this thought-provoking episode of the Embrace Your Real podcast, I will delve into the fascinating world of fitness trackers. I will explore the subject comprehensively, offering insights for those who find themselves on the fence about acquiring one, individuals who may not realize the extent to which their fitness tracker influences their life, and those who believe fitness trackers hold the key to their challenges. If you fall into any of these categories, this episode is tailored for you.
 
 
What I discuss:
Pros:
  1. Fitness trackers can be used as an amazing accountability buddy when used correctly.
  2. Fitness trackers have helped people focus more on how they FEEL. 
 
Cons:
  1. Fitness trackers can trigger obsessive behavior…
  2. Depending on a fitness tracker to measure your progress can make you overly reliant on external validation.
  3. Being obsessed with a fitness tracker can lead to an imbalanced lifestyle….
  4. While fitness trackers have improved in terms of their accuracy over the years, they can still provide inaccurate or inconsistent readings.
  5. Focusing excessively on calorie burn and prioritizing cardio over weight training is another potential dark side of being obsessed with a fitness tracker…
 
 
Links mentioned in the episode:
Macro Counting Made Simple Academy - https://www.macrocountingmadesimple.com/
 
 
If you want more from me, be sure to check out...
 
Movement With Julie | App: https://sale.movementwithjulie.com/
Macro Counting Made Simple: https://www.macrocountingmadesimple.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie

0:04.8

Ledbetter a podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a

0:10.3

dose of real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self.

0:18.0

Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go.

0:34.5

Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast. I'm so grateful that you are here spending some time through today. Today we're talking about a pretty controversial topic in the fitness world and you

0:41.2

likely already know what I'm going to talk about because it's in today's title.

0:45.7

But we're talking all about something that is a staple in many of our lives.

0:50.0

For those of us who have the tracker, the fitness tracker, a lot of people have mixed feelings

0:54.9

on it.

0:55.9

And then there's some people that are so against them and I respect both sides.

0:58.9

Honestly, I can see many positives to it, but I can also see how just like anything in life, if it's not taken in

1:06.1

doses and taken with consideration and care, it can easily become an obsession. And so we're going to be talking about the good the bad

1:13.6

the ugly all of it on today's episode and hopefully this will just kind of

1:18.9

shed a light on this topic I get this question a lot in my community and movement with

1:23.4

Julie like people asking what what my thoughts are in fitness trackers I've talked

1:27.2

to them about them a couple times on the podcast but not recently so I thought

1:30.5

I would do an updated podcast episode on the fitness trackers and really just kind of talk about the positives as well as some things to look out for and kind of the negative aspect of fitness trackers so that I can give you just a broad kind of picture of what I have

1:46.5

found to be very helpful but what also some areas that I found to be kind of not so healthy and can lead down an unhealthy

1:55.2

relationship when it comes to your fitness tracker. So that's what we're going to be

1:58.2

talking about in today's episode. So grateful that you're here. Before we dive in

2:01.6

though, I wanted to share this review. It comes

2:03.7

from Maureen 1375. She gave a five-star review and said love this podcast. I'm so

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