Happy financial fitness Friday!
I asked the fellas in my running group, How much do you trust your tech?
In light of all that has happened in 2020, I’ve spent a lot of time exercising indoors. Indoor cycling, treadmill running, and weights all done in the comfort of my very own home gym. One thing that I’ve noticed, however, is that my Apple Watch is always 1/4 mile faster than my treadmill. I really starred to worry one day while on a 3-mile run and noticed that my watch said 3.5 miles.
The fellas in my running community came through for me, one member posting that it was all about my arm swing. With that slight adjustment it all matched up. But that begged the question how much can we really trust our technology to track our fitness.
Here is the answer that I came up with (in my stone cold Steve Austin voice) It doesn’t matter what the tech says! When it boils down to it, fitness tracking is a simple matter of 1’s and 0’s. Did you work out or didn’t you. Unless you are specifically tracking weights or miles, then it doesn’t matter. Besides, its fairly common knowledge that fitness tracker data is an estimation. Some get closer than others, but close is not exact, and that has to be enough.
Try this, if you are not concerned with the number of miles you run, or how much weight you’re lifting, set your fitness tracker to the number of minutes you want to work out. Then just go.
It dawned on me that I rely heavily on my technology while working out. What did we do before Fitbit and Apple watch? I don’t even remember! Drop me a line to let me know where you stand on fitness trackers.
As always stay physically and financially fit!
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Corey Stokes 
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