Our study also found that people who used a wearable fitness tracker were three times more likely to still be active a year later.
  • Ninguém@lemmy.pt
    8·
    1 month ago

    Really?

    Or are the ones who stick to their workouts three times more likely to buy a wearable fitness tracker?

    • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Probably the more likely scenario. If you don’t want to get off your ass, a tracker won’t change that.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
      2·
      1 month ago

      I got my watch free with my phone and have always been flakey with my workouts. Now that I can see data the data, I’ve been maintaining for some time.

      That said, Google doesn’t take it as seriously as Apple. I can’t see historical data collated and I don’t get my watch telling me when I smash my personal bests. But despite that, it still motivates me.

      • Ninguém@lemmy.pt
        2·
        1 month ago

        That’s one possibility, yes. My gut feeling goes like this:

        If you’ve been training without for as long as you can remenber and having or not having such a device has zero effect, you’re the adult in the room and this is not about you.

        There’s allways the guy who liked the colour. That’s not about him either.

        If you bought one to help you keep going, I’m afraid it will help you as long it is a novelty, data is a novelty, your “network” is a novelty… Past that and the efect will vanish like hot water cooling. A trick that might help is to get someone you care about to share your progresses and achievements (the data) like a nice training partner or a family member, or someone with the same desiese as you if that’s the unfortunate case.

        If you’re really excited about your workouts and bought one to help you even more, I’m afraid you’ll realize the novelty efect will wain down as you get to know your mesurements by heart as well or predict them sometimes more acurately than the device. The exceptions are professionals - those don’t count here.

        If your trainer made you buy one but he’s not looking at the weights yout lift or counting the reps and couldn’t care less about the records, but he’s counting very closely and keeping track of how much time you’re spending in that particular hart rate zone or other seemingly weird mesurements, you’re golden. Don’t (or do, rather, in the positive way) question the need for such a thing, never leave that guy (or girl), never miss a session.

    • Ninguém@lemmy.pt
      1·
      29 days ago

      Getting back just to say: I read the study and it’s probably not what my previous sarcasm was all about.

      But the question remains… like @tomkatt@tomkatt@lemmy.world said - it’s very difficult to disentangle causality.