Episode 156- Why I Ditched My Wearable Fitness Tracker
Episode 156 Show Notes
What happens when the numbers meant to help you understand your body start to define how you feel about it?
In this episode of Strong Like a Mother, Tiffany shares why she decided to ditch her fitness wearables and step away from constantly tracking her health and fitness data. For years, metrics like recovery scores, sleep data, calories burned, heart rate, and daily activity offered insight into how she was doing—but she began to realize she was giving those numbers more authority than her own body.
Tiffany talks about what it looked like to take on the identity of the data. If her app said she had a poor recovery score, she would feel like she was having a bad day—even if she actually felt great. If the numbers told her she hadn't recovered enough, she could start questioning whether she was capable of doing a workout. Instead of listening to her energy, strength, fatigue, and intuition, she was allowing an app to tell her how she should feel.
She also explores the difference between using data as a helpful tool and becoming dependent on it for validation. Sometimes, more information doesn't lead to better decisions—it can actually make it harder to trust yourself.
Tiffany shares what she discovered when she stopped outsourcing that trust and started paying attention to her own body's signals. From training and recovery to sleep and everyday energy, she explains why learning to listen inwardly has become more valuable than any score on a screen.
If you've ever found yourself checking your wearable before deciding how you feel, letting a recovery score dictate your workout, or feeling like you've failed because you didn't hit a certain number, this conversation will make you think differently about your relationship with fitness data.
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