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Chapter 1: What is Health Tracking? And Why Should You Care?
If you haven’t heard of fitness tracking, then you’ve probably been living under some kind of
health rock for the past several years. Also known as health tracking, or life logging, fitness
tracking is all about the ‘quantified self’. In other words, it’s about measuring your performance
and your stats throughout the day as you train and as you go through your usual activities. This
means things like your steps taken, your heartrate, your calories burned, your temperature, your
stress levels and more.
Together, all this information can be combined to create a somewhat-complete picture of your
health. You can then take that information and use it to guide your future training, to see where
your weaknesses lie and hopefully to further improve your wellbeing.
The old maxim goes: ‘that which is measured, improves’. This applies in business, it applies in
engineering and yes, it applies in fitness.
In fact, there are some studies that suggest simply measuring your weight is enough to ensure
you shed fat. That’s right: with no other (conscious) changes to your lifestyle whatsoever, just
knowing how much you weigh can help you to weigh less.
And it goes beyond that too. The more you learn about your fitness, the better you’ll be able to
improve your training methods and the more likely you are to be able to flag up health problems
and issues with your routine. It can be highly motivating to see yourself improve and it can
provide data that allows you to train more efficiently and easily
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