WEBVTT - Game Your Way to Fitness 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:07.440 Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:15.320 Forward Thinking. Hey everybody, and welcome to Forward Thinking, the 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.200 podcast that looks at the future and says you better run, Run, Run, 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:25.120 Run Run. I'm Joe McCormick, I'm Lauren Vogelba, and I'm 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.920 Holly Fry. Holly is joining us today because our regular 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:33.159 host Jonathan Strickland is out on vacation. We're recording without him. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.839 How dare he? How dare he? Um? So today we 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.839 wanted to talk about the future of fitness. Yes, this 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.440 is partially why we have Holly joining us. She is 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.959 usually on um stuff you missed in history class, but 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.879 is also a little bit of a fitness enthusiast. I 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:56.920 would say accurate, accurate. I have a background in dance, 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.680 although I haven't done that in any sort of real 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.200 way in a long time, but I've alway had a 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.000 lifelong sort of interest in it, and I run regularly. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.520 Uh Am. I really like all the tech around fitness. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.600 Just wait till we get to gadgets. Holly was a 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.560 great resource in writing the script of the video that 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.520 this podcast is accompanying, and so we figured we'd talked 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:21.840 today about some of the technical outlook for the future 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.800 of fitness, including games, gadgets, apps, little do Dads, James 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.440 Bond gadgets. Right, Yeah, because I mean, you know, basically, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.400 you know, anyone can can do fitness by by moving um, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.520 which is fairly fairly what most people, which is which 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.440 is fairly non technological um. But there are many, many, 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.640 many terrific advances and and yeah, so we want to 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.880 get into the gamification and the gadgets, but I think 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.840 I think first let's talk about UM. So, so exercises 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:55.080 actual facts good for us? Is this scientifically proven said 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.080 we don't actually need any of that? Was it was 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.080 you just lots of meat and you'll be okay, Oh 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:07.560 that's that's my least favorite website. That problem. No, Actually, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:12.200 the medical science community is pretty united on this that 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.840 getting a good bit of exercise is really good for 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.880 you. You You don't probably really need to worry about getting 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.079 too much unless you're in some tiny percentile of people 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.520 that most of us don't fit into. Yeah, overtraining happens, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:31.040 but the general public is not in a huge danger. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:37.399 But we're barely getting enough right to talk about that. Minimals, minimals, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.480 minimums that that professionals talk about well. The U S 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.360 Health Department UM recommends that you need to get for 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.720 a healthy adult. UM. Now, it's going to be different 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.320 whether you're a child or an elderly person, or if 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.920 you have a disability or something, but if you're able 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.280 and a healthy adult, they recommend a hundred and fifty 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:59.000 minutes per week of moderate intensity aerobic activity. So that 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.960 can be like just you know, walking, going hiking around 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.600 UM that that doesn't have to involve like really vigorous. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.320 That you don't have to be sprinting or lifting fifty 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.760 pound weights. That's just getting your heart beating a little 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.160 bit faster than more than a stroll. I think sometimes 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:20.240 when you say walking, people think like the casual, Hey, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.480 I'm looking at things and windows. You walk toward lunch, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.880 not like you walk away from It's a perfect way 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.240 to describe it, or like the Saturday night fever walk, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.080 like like the good or like sometimes I pretend I'm 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.600 RuPaul and that really only sometimes Holly. Yeah, it's a 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.280 really good confidence boost. If you're feeling a little insecure, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.480 pretend your RuPaul and my hand to God, everything gets better. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.520 That's a good strategy if you can imagine a good 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.880 house music. Beat your walk as you're going. You're probably 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.240 walking fast enough. You should be feeling it a little bit, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.440 maybe breathing a little faster than usual. Maybe not able 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.560 to carry on a strict conversation. That's one of those 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.560 other indicators that they usually give out, like if you 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.000 can name really speak, not Able to gossip is one 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.200 that I was told. Once there you go, okay, Um, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.560 Now keep in mind that this is what they recommend 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.560 as the minimum for a healthy adult. It's not like, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.200 oh wow, I got there, I'm done. Um, it's actually 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.120 good to get more exercise than this, but this is 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.240 what they say is the minimum for a healthy adult 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.080 to have good physical fitness. Or you can trade out 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.280 that hundred and fifty minutes every week of moderate intensity 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:30.640 aerobic activity with seventy five minutes of vigorous aerobic activity. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:35.359 And this means like hard running or playing an intense sport, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.840 something like high intensity interval training, although you should not 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.880 probably be doing that for seventy five minutes a week 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.680 for most people, certainly not straight. Yeah, that that would be. Now, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.039 those tend to be shorter sessions, and you want to 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.279 space them out a little, right, that the interval part 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.720 means that you've space it out with less intense training. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.599 They also recommend that you should do at least two 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.600 sessions of strength training per week, and so that just 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.840 means like resistance train in NG or lifting weights. They 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.320 don't specify how long you need to do this, just 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.960 enough basically I think to be making progress. Yeah, you 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.320 want to hit all of your major muscle groups. Uh, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.080 there are different bodies of thought on. Some trainers like 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.719 to do full exhaustion like on each part once a week, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.320 really hard, and some like to balance that in those 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.920 two sessions you would hit kind of full body each time. Uh. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.040 But yeah, basically you want to get to a point 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.840 where your muscles are challenged just past what they would 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.840 naturally be able to do, and that's how you develop 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.360 strength enough that it's hard. Yes, this is partially because 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.800 muscles burn energy when you're just sitting around, and when 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.360 they are stronger, when they're in better shape, they are 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.680 going to be burning more energy than they otherwise would. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.320 And that's basically awesome. That's true. By um, by doing 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.840 more strength training, you actually I believe you increase your 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.640 base metabolic rate, is what you're saying. Um so it. Yeah, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.599 you're healthier even when you're not exercising. You've been lifting weights, 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.320 but you can't just coast for a couple of weeks. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.040 You've got to keep it going, right. Yeah, I think 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.560 the staff that I've read, and I haven't confirmed this, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.679 but I think that you lose something like ten percent 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.479 of your muscle strength for every month that you are 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.520 not as active as you otherwise were. Man, that's brutal. Yeah. Well, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.520 uh so, how many of us here in America are 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.840 achieving these goals set out by our National Health Department? 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.000 Do you have a statistic on that? Is it? Sad? 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:39.760 I do a Boston Globe article from April April um 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.800 and this is actually this part of the status better 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.680 than I would have guessed, but it's still not great. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:49.400 It estimates that forty nine point seven percent of those 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.720 interviewed and study met or exceeded the guidelines UM for 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:59.280 aerobic activity in the first six months of two thou twelve. Okay, so, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.320 but also I'm I believe I understand that the rates 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.440 have been going up a little bit since lately there's 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.600 been more of an awareness campaign nationally about us needing 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.280 to get so I think it's a little better than 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.520 it was a few years before. UM, I'm not positive 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.320 about that. We should check later. I'll try to put 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.400 something on social about whether or not relying to you 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.400 right now. Well, in any case, this part is true. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.560 So about half of American adults surveyed. UM, we're meeting 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:34.680 or exceeding those aerobic guidelines so for the first six months, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.320 for the first six months of two twelves. So that's 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.000 still gunning it through the New Year's resolutions. Yeah, I 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.320 wonder if that makes a big difference. It might go 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.640 to a gym and January April, it's a very different space. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.960 The y m c A my wife and I go to, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.520 is unbearable in January. It's just packed, you can't get in. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.680 And then you know, wait a couple of months and 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:00.360 then it's fine, there's nobody there. Pretty standard. So yeah, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:05.040 maybe that's affecting the statistic here. Though, a less encouraging 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.239 statistic is apparently when you um, and this is adults 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.920 between the ages of twenty five and sixty four, when 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.080 you add in the combination of the aerobic activity and 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.720 the strength training recommendations, both of them at the same time. UM, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.320 just twenty point seven of Americans. We're hitting them. I 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.200 have some theories about that, Yeah, I do. I would 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.320 say that a lot of women are not strength training 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.600 because they have been taught that are they think they 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.679 haven't even been taught. They just have this conception that 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.680 if they if they lift weights or otherwise he use 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.960 resistance training, that they are going to get crazy dude 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.160 muscles and that everything will be terrible. What's wrong with that? 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.400 A I think that Linda Hamilton's in Terminator two is 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.760 just about the prettiest lady ever on the planet. Well, 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.760 and be should work like four hours a day just 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.199 to maintain those arms like this is not going to 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.120 happen to the average person turned over her mental institution 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.800 bed and do the chin ups on it right? Well, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.080 I mean the actors did not, but the character, yes, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.960 you know, she might have been a method actor. She 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:13.560 lived in an institution, working out all the time. There 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.360 is a fear among a lot of women that they're 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.880 somehow going to get really bulky and huge. Uh. And 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.000 then it's not the case that I mean, for for 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.400 most human people, that is certainly not the case. And 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.560 everyone's body type is different, of course, and you know, 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.000 and you can you can. There are exceptions to every rule, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.480 but generally women do not have the testosterone in their 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.679 bodies to build muscle at a rate that demand would. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:39.680 That's just the bottom line, right, So yeah, so uh, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:44.760 let's talk about the benefits of regular exercise versus the 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.439 negative outcomes you might have if you don't get regular exercise. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.120 So one of the biggest things is that exercise helps 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:57.080 control weight UM. And this is interesting. I think some 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.679 people have a misconception that it's like, well, if you 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.440 ex size a lot, you're gonna be really skinny, and 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.679 if you don't, you're going to be really fat. And 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.280 it's not exactly like that. But what research seems to 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.120 show is no matter what your weight level is, exercise 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.280 seems to help you control it in that range UM 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:22.040 and also within UM whatever range you are. Exercise also 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.559 helps combat some of the negative effects of being overweight. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:31.079 So like having um uh bad HDL versus LDL levels, 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.760 exercise helps control that in a very positive way. That 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.040 that is here, that is your good cholesterol in quotation 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.680 marks versus bad cholesterol. Right, Yeah, those the technical scientific names, Yeah, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.959 extremely technical. Yes, I'm completely forgetting what know what those 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.720 things stand for they actually do always use those words. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.520 I always see it. They put it in quotes like 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.240 just so they're like kind of giving it the side eye. Yeah, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.559 good and bad. That's you know, it simplifies. It's also yeah, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.839 crazy communication. It's making a sound bite moral judgment on cholesterol, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:12.600 which is a little bit goofy evil cholesterol. Cholesterol. Uh. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.000 And I also did want to put in, um that 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.319 weight in general is not your your best indicator by 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.120 far of how healthy you are, because muscle weighs more 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.600 than fat, and so, I mean, especially when you're first 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.160 starting to work out, you might not lose any weight 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.920 or even gain a little bit of weight. And wonder 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.960 you know why your scale is is telling you these terrible, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.760 terrible things. And it's not it's not that you're I mean, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.880 you know, exercising will make you more healthy. As I'm 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.960 sure Joe is about to explain, weight is just not 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.560 the best indicator, right, Um yeah, so uh. It also 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.600 basically correlates to a lot of conditions, especially that we 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.440 encounter in older adults, like regular exercise will help stave 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.280 off heart disease, UM and all kinds of cardiovascular and 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:03.400 pulmonary problems. Um. It Also, it improves moody. People who 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.120 get more exercise are happy. I think this is really 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.000 easy to notice, just between those weeks where you're going 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:11.680 to the jam and the ones where you slack off. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.280 You get better sleep when you get good exercise. Sure, 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.800 most people, you're both looking at me and I don't 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.920 know what to tell you because I have sleep issues. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.319 I thought you knew everything. Well, I just in in 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.280 terms of personal experience, like I'm a lifelong insomniac. I 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.480 don't really care for sleep, and if I didn't have 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.200 to do it, I wouldn't So okay, I'm there with you. Actually, yeah, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.000 me too, that's weird. Three vampires here in the same room. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.160 Three am party tomorrow, excellent, that sounds great. I'll probably 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.640 be sewing or on the treadmill. I'm actually usually working 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.600 out about one am. That's what I like to That's 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:46.720 what I like to do that I do like to 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.400 us in the middle of the night. But for many 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:58.000 normal human people, for the non freaks, right, well, I 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.680 all of this has to do with the the hormone 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.800 balances that happen in your brain and in your body. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.920 Things like Sarah tonin um uh increased workouts can can 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.760 get your brain and muscles involved with more of that, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.560 which is your happy good times, um for your mood 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.680 and uh. And also I think that has to do 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.480 with sleep as well. So I'm talking totally off the cuffs. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.840 So I think I'm hoping that what I'm saying is actual. Yeah, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.480 I've heard the same information. UM, so round up on 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.800 what we've seen so far. Pretty standard, but just just 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.640 know that this is verified by science. Exercise is really 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.920 good for you. You need a lot of it, You 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.439 should do it. At least half of American adults are 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.600 not getting nearly enough the stat I mentioned earlier, thinking 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.200 I remember just from the same Boston Globe article I 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.880 said it earlier that it says that the most recent 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.280 federal health data show a steady climb since two thousand 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.920 seven in the number of US adults meeting weekly workout 0:13:55.000 --> 0:14:00.160 goals or its words. So though the long trend may 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.600 have been kind of negative, like we've been getting less 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.400 fit in the past few years, it seems like apparently 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.320 there's been an upswing a bit. And and this does 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:13.040 coincide um with more people having more access to the Internet, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.800 which obviously gives you more direct access to social circles 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.000 and allows you. I mean also things like fitness trackers 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.320 have been coming down a lot in price and and 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:28.440 increasing in popularity. Fitness trackers. Fitness trackers, is that like 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.640 a like a hunter tracker guy with like a hat 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.080 and a rifle and he follows you too. That's actually 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.680 how marathons work, now now that you mentioned it, I 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.520 would much rather have one of those than a fit bit. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:45.120 But um, but fitness hunter, fitness hunter. Yeah, no, no no, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.240 no if fitness trackers are you know, a little pocket 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.640 sized bits of tech that take measurements and create some 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.480 kind of useful output to tell you how you're doing 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.840 in your exercise and other related metrics, possibly including your 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.200 your eating habits in your sleep. Um, they're kind of 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.520 a lot more useful as technology has improved, you know, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.080 giving us things that are water a k A sweat resistant. Um, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.040 you know, having tiny, longer lasting batteries, more efficient screens, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.480 more powerful onboard and or linked software to crunch that 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.720 data into something you can really use rather than just 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.000 giving you a graph of you ran a bunch um 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.360 and uh without a graph, right exactly? Yeah yeah, um, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.600 and uh, you know you know more on board memory, 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.120 smaller transistors, all all of that kind of good Moore's 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.200 Law technology stuff has has led to fitness trackers. Holly 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.520 is wearing one right now as we speak. What kind 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.800 is that? It's a Fitbit Flex. I I love it. 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.640 I will say it was startling. It's one that Fitbit 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.880 has put out numerous trackers throughout the years. I don't 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.400 want to make it sound too long, but their um 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.280 their newest one is the Flex which you were on 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.160 your wrist versus the one which was more of a 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.560 clip situation, which is their previous model. And one of 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:03.320 the startling things was the sleep tracker function, right you 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.440 said it by tapping it five times as you go 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.280 to bed, and then you tap it again five times 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.200 to wake up, so it comes out of sleep mode, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.120 and then it will tell you how good or how 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.080 well or poorly you're sleeping, based based on how much 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.840 you were rolling around your movement. Some people think there 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.280 is a pulse element to it. There is not. It's 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.200 just based on your movement and your twitching. And I 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.240 in mine was like you woke up twenty three times 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.960 last now, which wasn't a huge surprise to me because 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.600 I am, like I said, I have lifelong insomnia. And 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.320 I am one of these people that routinely wakes up 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.600 like a dozen times a night. But even on nights 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.720 when I think I've really just slept like a log, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.080 it will turn out that in fact, that is why. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.960 So that was a little startling initially. Um, but it's 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.520 really fabulous in the in terms of tracking your motion, 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.360 attracts your overall motion for the day so that you 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.080 can set yourself a goal of like they put it 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.120 in step terms, but sometimes it's not always just walking 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:03.120 steps like right might be swimming. Set to track fifteen 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.960 thousand steps a day, so for each and it breaks 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.200 it down into fifths. You have a an illuminated light 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.600 in LED for each fifth, so like right now, when 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.240 I tap it, it says I have not been doing 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.199 all that much because I'm only three dots into my 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.280 day and I should be further. Uh so yeah, And 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:20.880 then as you hit your goal for the day, it 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.240 makes all kinds of rumbling noises and is exciting and 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.240 it just makes you know you're getting enough movement throughout 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.680 the day. I think that sounds really helpful because it's 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.280 got to be frustrating if you're trying to improve your fitness, 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.960 but you don't exactly know what you're doing. You don't 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.000 have a sense of how of whether or not you're 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.720 actually meeting your goals. Well, and most of the fitness 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:46.000 trackers now, uh, they really do kind of measure a 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.120 much bigger picture kind of motion for the day instead 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.199 of just trying to track your exercise time so that 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.600 you do know, you know, Like the job Bone up 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.440 is another one that does a similar thing. The Misfit 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.120 Shine is brand new. It just to chipping I think 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:07.920 in the last six weeks Indigo Go launch and that's 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.120 a really cool one. Um. It's just little metal disk 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.520 that has these little pretty lights on it and to 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.600 to know anything about it you have to wirelessly connected 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:21.120 to your computer. Medieval jewelry, right, yeah, Well it's interesting 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.640 and different from other ones that exist, like the job 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.680 oone up is a wrist based tracker that bit flexes 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.679 risk based. The one is a clip like I said, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.520 but the Misfit Shine you can wear in any number 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.119 of places and they actually sell different accessories where it 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.359 can be a necklace or a bracelet or a it 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.120 can be a clippy thing and it's aircraft great aluminum, 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.440 so it can go through that your washing machine, which 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.119 is a problem for a lot of other trackers. Like 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.760 one of the problems with previous versions of the fitbit 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.960 is that people would forget it was like one of 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.479 the things they tell women is that you could wear 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.680 a clip to your bra so that it's out of 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.760 the way and it doesn't you know, you don't see it. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.240 It's not taking up accessory space in your life until 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:03.879 you do, and then a hundred dollars of ruined check um. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.240 So like the newer fitbit can go in the shower 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.280 with you and it's not a problem. They say. It's 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.520 one of those things that where they say it's um 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.119 water resistant or water tolerant, but not water proof, so 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.160 you couldn't. You can go swimming and it will track 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.600 your swimming activity, but you don't want to go deep 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.680 sea diving with it or anything. Generally you probably should 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.080 go diving with Yeah, I don't know. I do not 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.960 recall the pretty solid little guy. So these guys can 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.800 have any number of sensors in them. Um. The wrist 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.760 related stuff that Holly was talking about is is usually 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.040 placed on your wrist because of PPGs or a photo 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.919 thesmo graphs. I think I said that right on the 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.480 first go that's crazy talk grown up. Oh that's oho 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.680 you're challenging me, Joe photo plet thesmo graph um and 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.200 and that's that's the new standard in noninvasive heart rate monitoring. 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.600 What they do is they bounce light um usually in 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.200 LED so that they're not burning your skin um through 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.119 the first through layers of your skin, and measure what 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.680 comes back to see how much blood is moving through 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.200 your capillaries because blood is going to absorb more light 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.400 than the surrounding tissues, so they can track your your 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:17.280 pulse and through that, which is super awesome future technology. Uh, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.960 this real, this is totally this is this is what 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:25.400 is it. I've always wanted a machine that will keep 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.680 track of my blood. I never thought it would come true. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.880 Usually they're big, encumbersome and the wheels squeak, but it's 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.560 these days. They're also being paired with an accelerometer which 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.720 will help compensate for your body and skin movement, which 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.120 makes them more accurate. The old version of this, of course, 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.800 was an electric cardiogram A K A and E C 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.600 G R E k G. That was so many initialisms 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.080 in one short sentence. There I apologize guys. UM, and 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.760 and those would detect electrical electrical signals through your skin 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:02.240 with little electric pickups. UM. Other stuff that happens in 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:08.840 fitness tractor, fitness tractors, fitness trackers, I think is drive 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:15.960 it around the house fitness tractor. UM. Pedometers podometers, of course, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.320 are the things that that measure the motion of your 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.199 of your hips when you walk, or the impact of 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.119 your steps. Accelerometers, which are motion sensors that measure the 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.960 change in direction and velocity of anything. They're connected to 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:34.680 GPS receivers for tracking your position. Altometers altimeters, yes, altimeters 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.639 really that's so goofy sounding, which measure elevation gained and 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.840 lost and uh therefore can can attribute calories burned to 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.439 harder work like climbing stairs than just going in a 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.840 straight line. Galvanics in response sensors, These are some of 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:54.040 my favorites. They detect perspiration and thereby they measure the 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.280 connectivity of your skin and thereby detect how much your sweating, 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.480 which can help detect how much work you're doing. UM. 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.119 And then infrared thermometers to track your body temperature and 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:06.120 the ambient temperature, with the principle that if you are 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.840 warmer than you're surrounding environment, you are doing more work. Uh, 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.600 that's pretty awesome. They're they're pretty awesome things I do 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.600 not I have a I have a panometer that we 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:19.680 got from work through a you know, corporate fitness initiative thing. 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:21.920 Um it is it is just a potometer. That is 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:23.520 what it does. It does that one thing. It has 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.600 one job. Um, but but I like it. I like it. 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.120 You know, They're fun and I no doubt about all 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.440 this tech. I'm really excited to see what other kind 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:36.880