Movement Podcast
Fitness Data Overload?
From wearable devices to the scale in your bathroom, there are a ton of tech choices for tracking fitness, but have you ever thought of the negatives of using them? Are there adverse effects from having too much data at your fingertips?
We explore that idea on today’s episode. Gray and Lee discuss: How devices can motivate us… and also overwhelm and shame us, Which metrics to focus on, The importance of how we consume our data, And what our devices don’t tell us. So let’s get going with today’s Movement Podcast -- powered by FMS.
Episode Notes:
01:09 What Gray uses to track his fitness
02:05 Tracking devices.. Good thing?
03:16 Female users analytics
03:52 Functional Movement Screen
05:05 Consume your data with wisdom instead of intelligence
05:26 American way to consume something to up your energy level
05:55 Intermittent Fasting
06:13 3 things to help increase energy levels
07:24 Start with the basics
07:43 Heart rate variability for finding balance
09:35 HRV on movement screen/stretching
10:51 Andy Roddick /Tennis down regulating example
12:29 Weed through the minutia
3:15 Natural immunity boosters
13:59 What’s the issue… Obesity or behaviors that lead to obesity?
15:52 Data isn’t bad.. But focusing on the wrong data does nothing.
8:27 Insight on where to start....
18:57 Phil Plisky reseach: Soldiers risk factors
19:35 The responsibility to catch risk factors
21:23 Looking at the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
22:10 Make skill the spotlight after general physical prepardness
22:47 Back pain... Compensations and imbalances
24:03 Current trend in sports science
24:49 Resourcefulness
25:23 Lee’s role with Gray
26:07 Sally meets her step goal
27:03 Shame and Guilt researcher, Brene Brown .
28:19 If tech helps you become more self aware, good.
30:15 Don’t let the data overwhelm you
31:02 What Gray still struggles with
31:40 Set a baseline, then turn it off
32:20 Find activities that no one needs to distract you from
Did you miss the YouTube release of Ep15?
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