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Myth-Busting Wellness Hacks: Cold Plunges, Coffee, Alcohol, and Fitness Trackers

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Importance of Knowing Your Fitness Scores

The more complex or the more what I'd say black box algorithm, where it's a score where you have no idea what it's taking into account, the less good those things are. Those things don't do justice. Things like counting steps, they're generally all pretty good at those. Heart rate, generally depends a little bit. The wrist based stuff isn't as accurate as a strap, but it's going to get,. unless you're training for the tour de France or something, it'sGoing to do a pretty good job. As an endurance athlete, this is very near and dear to my heart because I've spent way too much time experimenting with this.

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