Fitness Tracker is a big business. From simple pedometers to smart watches, fitness wearables to mobile apps, Juniper Research's 2017 data shows that by 2021, more than 75 million Americans will use fitness trackers.
Don't rely on fitness trackers to survive and die. (Source: emiliozv / iStock / GettyImages) 7. Aggravating mental health problems
Although many people can safely use fitness trackers, people with mental health problems such as obsessions, perfectionism, and even eating disorders can overuse and abuse fitness trackers, Katie Ziskind said. He is a licensed family, Niantic, a marriage therapist in Connecticut.
"People with eating disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia often over-check their fitness trackers hundreds of times a day to calculate calories, check their heart rate, and use them to create reasons. The opposite purpose," she said.
How do you know that your tracking is a problem? Stefanie Juliano, a licensed professional clinical consultant at Rio Rancho, New Mexico, said she was looking for these warning signs:
- Ignore friends, responsibilities, children, family and other obligations to exercise
- spend a day Most of the time thinking about when you exercise
- skip more enjoyable activities and choose to burn more calories
- has always been ashamed, guilty, depressed or for exercising or eating Anxiety
- Exercise only for calorie deficiency
Juliano said: "If you find yourself doing this, it may be time to reassess your relationship with a fitness tracker or see a professional consultant. Now."
8. It will stop you
If you use the fitness tracker to tell you that when you run or reach a certain amount of activity time, you may inadvertently stop yourself.
]"If your workout speed is the same as usual (same heart rate, speed, time, etc.), you may find that you artificially maintain your health," said Marissa Michael, in Oregon. Real Nutrition, a licensed private trainer and registered dietitian in Portland.
Why not try your workout from time to time without your tracker? "What happens if you don't have your tracker to run? You may find that you run faster or longer, or find more happiness in running," Michael said. Too much attention to the data may detract from the individual's wishes and ability to do another mile or more.
