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0:00do you ever wake up feeling like you had
0:02a pretty good sleep
0:03you feel ready to take on the day then
0:06you think why not take a look at your
0:08Fitness Tracker app to see how you
0:10recovered
0:11then you see your scores are so bad you
0:14might as well not even get out of bed
0:16today
0:17so you do what most people do
0:20try to ignore it and get on with the
0:23rest of your day when you try your best
0:26but you don't succeed
0:31when you get what you want but not what
0:35you need
0:38me when you feel so tired but you can't
0:42sleep
0:45stuck in River
0:48s
0:49[Music]
0:52and the tears come streaming down your
0:56face
1:00I'm still you can't replace
1:04[Music]
1:06I've been wearing a whoop down for six
1:08months and you might remember I did a
1:10review on it after wearing it for one
1:12month in fact I'm very grateful that
1:13it's the most viewed YouTube video
1:15review of the whoop Fitness tracker I've
1:17worn it for every single Fitness session
1:19training session Jiu Jitsu session every
1:21night out every night and I've worn it
1:22and it's been incredibly insightful to
1:24see how my body reacts to different
1:26stresses but today
1:29I quit
1:32why because I'm fed up being told how I
1:35feel I'm fed up of being told I didn't
1:38recover well enough and I'm sick to
1:40death of being told to not over exert
1:42myself this data is making my life worse
1:46when I'm supposed to be paying the money
1:48for it to make me feel better the thing
1:51is the fitness tracker doesn't measure
1:53how my mental health is or how my mood
1:55is yet the data it's giving me is having
1:58an implication to my mental health or my
2:00mood the fitness tracker doesn't let me
2:02know how productive I've been or how the
2:04quality of my relationships or how my
2:06day is going it's just feeding me data
2:08based off my heart rate my heart rate
2:10variability and how long it thinks I
2:12slept so surely we can just ignore this
2:14data but unfortunately we can't I know
2:16what you're thinking looking at my
2:18fitness tracker is not bothering me at
2:19all well in 2019 there was research
2:22conducted
2:24where a cohort of people were tested for
2:26a gene mutation called
2:29creb1 and this was a proper legitimate
2:32test and people who have this will
2:34probably have a reduced aerobic capacity
2:36but the researchers instead of being
2:38honest with the participants decided to
2:40split the group into two and the other
2:42fifty percent
2:43it's old they do have the genetic
2:46variant crb1 the researchers then found
2:48out the participants being told whether
2:50they do or do not have that Gene was a
2:52better predictor for their outcomes in
2:54the fitness tests than actually having
2:55that Gene itself so for a lot of you
2:57that wake up thinking
2:59that your Fitness tracker telling you
3:00that you slept like last night
3:01isn't going to influence or impact your
3:02day you're wrong
3:04for the next six months I'm just gonna
3:06wake up and think about how I feel think
3:09about how sore I am going to get in the
3:10shower and think about how hard I want
3:12to train that day I'm not going to let
3:13data dictate how I feel or how guilty I
3:16feel about training too much or not I
3:17know the point of this video is this at
3:19the end of the day we're gonna have good
3:21days we're gonna have bad days we're
3:22gonna have good night's sleep we're
3:23gonna have a bad night's sleep but
3:24whether we've had a great day a good day
3:26an average day or even a day should
3:28be something that we reflect upon at the
3:30end of the day before we're going to bed
3:32any data that could put us in a negative
3:34mindset before we've even got out of bed
3:36something we might be better off
3:37eradicating because this is the lesson
3:39that I've learned checking my data of a
3:42fitness tracker and seeing green made me
3:44happy just for a short period of time
3:46but seeing yellow or red gave me
3:48emotions of sadness and annoyance for
3:51pretty much the entire day and I think
3:52that maybe a life with less data could
3:55be a better experience so I'll let you
3:57know in another six months