Are Fitness Trackers Bad for Your Health?

July 19, 2022
00:00 13:23
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In today's "Hot Coaching Tips" episode, Heather talks fitness trackers, Apple Watch, and all the other little exercise bullies that we wear on our person. We talk about the good, the bad, and the unexpected when it comes to these tracking devices. Do you have to have your watch on to get "credit" every time you walk? Do you never leave home without your tracker? Take a listen today and see how this coaching episode can help you.

Are Fitness Trackers Bad for Your Health? Here's what we talk about on today's show:

  • How we can be shamed or challenged into obeying our trackers versus our bodies.
  • Do these trackers and their readouts keep us stuck in disordered behaviors?
  • Why we get so "inspired" and how those little "rewards" on our wrists work.
  • How these "motivators" can lead us to a bad place with exercise.
  • Are fitness trackers bad for your mental health?
  • How they're not inherently bad or "evil" but how those of us with issues around disordered eating and exercise, they may be unhealthy.
  • Why changing our goals may be the healthiest things for our bodies and our minds.

Coaching Tip: Pray about whether or not you need to give up your tracker. Is it helping you or hurting you? Who can you have an honest conversation with about your relationship with your tracker?

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Heather Creekmore writes and speaks hope to thousands of women each week inspiring them to stop comparing and start living. Her first book Compared to Who? encourages women to uncover the spiritual root of body image issues and find freedom. Her latest release, The Burden of Better, offers women a journey into the depths of God's grace to find a way off the treadmill of constant comparison. Heather has been featured on Fox News, Huff Post, Morning Dose, Church Leaders, and For Every Mom, along with dozens of other shows and podcasts. But she's best recognized for her appearance as a contestant on the Netflix hit show, Nailed It. Heather and her fighter-pilot-turned-pastor husband, Eric have four children and live in Austin, Texas.

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