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Your Fitness App Is Making You Fat, Here’s Why
- dredmorbius 12y agoThe more fundamental problem with most fitness apps is that they measure the wrong things and the fitness protocols they promote aren't effective. A piece featured on HN some years back was the Men's Journal article "Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie" http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie-20120504 http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou... At its heart: _[N]othing on Earth beats the fundamentals, a commitment to regular, measurable improvement in everything that a gym trainer won't teach, for fear you'll walk away bored: push-ups, pull-ups, bench presses, squats, dead lifts, and even such military-seeming tests as just how fast you can run a single mile._ ... that and a slew of perverse economic incentives for gyms, personal trainers, and now, "fitness apps".