i am curious if anyone who regularly wears one of the fitness tracking watches has found that it has changed any of your training or sleep habits (for the ones with sleep tracking). and do you think it actually helped based on any results?
I bought the GF a Fitbit, it has inspired her to do X number of 1000 steps per day and get more active. Also tells her when she hasnt had 8 hrs sleep, so she goes to bed for rest.
i am curious if anyone who regularly wears one of the fitness tracking watches has found that it has changed any of your training or sleep habits (for the ones with sleep tracking). and do you think it actually helped based on any results?I don’t think it does; the trend is for people to buy a device, wear it for a few months before they get bored with it and stop using it.
Fundamentally this isn’t very different from buying a bathroom scale. Does a bathroom scale make you lose weight? It doesn’t. To make changes to your health you need to change habits and behaviors. And to make changes you need to overcome many obstacles of different kinds (emotional, professional, social, environmental, financial, etc etc). It’s the same with activity trackers, they tell you what you did (sorta - the errors are quite large) and you need to have some motivation to do things differently, change habits and attack those obstacles. Buying an activity tracker is like starting a new years resolution; most people are not successful at sticking with their resolution for various reasons and it’s the same with activity trackers.