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Monday, April 6, 2015

Have we all gotten a bit excessively reliant on feedback from fitness apps?

Exercise technology can be significant," says research therapist Larry Rosen — writer of the book "iDisorder: Understanding our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us."

But if you are constantly checking your stats, "then that is going to make tension — and that is the exact opposite thing you need to do when working out. Why might you need to be focused on when you are attempting to do something that should be beneficial for you?"

Considerably all the more conceivably harming, says Rosen, is the online networking segment of a few applications — posting your run on Facebook, for instance, and depending on companions to cheer for you basically.

Making your own exercise open sets you up for dissatisfaction, he says: "Suppose it is possible that you posted your run and no one preferred it. Does that mean you don't receive anything in return?"

Working out wired can likewise posture security perils. Wearing earphones diminishes your attention to movement, canines and other potential risks. Actually taking your eyes off the street to check your watch expands hazard.

Those little application prizes "may additionally entice individuals to push too hard when they ought to be listening to their body and not their iPhone," says Jo Zimmerman, teacher of kinesiology at the University of Maryland.

Exercise tech, she says “is a double-edged sword. For some people, technology is the exact reason to get off the couch and for others it’s what makes them too competitive.”


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