Do you live for the moment 10,000 steps show up on your fitness tracker? Feel like your day isn’t complete until you’ve hit that marker?
Fitness trackers can be a useful and harmless tool to track your activity levels and connect with friends. At the same time, they can easily become an obsession and have a negative impact on your overall health.
In this episode, we discuss:
The use of fitness trackers and how to determine if your relationship with yours is helpful or harmful
Insight into some research around fitness trackers
3 steps to assess if your fitness tracker has become an obsession
The truth behind the 10K steps/day craze
We mention several research studies in today’s episode. Here are links to the study so you can read more.
Research study from Duke found that activity-tracking can decrease enjoyment of whatever pastime someone is tracker and even lead people to move less when they are not wearing their tracker.
A study in Eating Behaviors journal found a correlation between the use of calorie-counting and/or fitness-tracking devices and ED symptoms in college students.
Survey conducted in 2016 among female Fitbit users found that 60% stated their days were controlled by their devices and 30% said gadget made them feel guilty.
