Do you need a fitness tracker?
Why I stopped using health and fitness sensors
May 17, 2018 - Willem L. Middelkoop
A good customer of mine was once a physiotherapist, he told me about people asking him to "feel their muscles" to tell them how they where doing. "Crazy!" he told me: "I can never feel better than the people themselves, if they only would listen to their body". This caused me to question the health and fitness sensors I use.
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