New technologies are imperative to facilitate life, or simply to improve it. In the sphere of well -being and health, smart watches, such as Apple Watch, have gained ground with their applications so that we are moving. There the colored circles that represent the daily monitoring and control of our movement, exercise and standing. All, with the possibility of changing the daily activity objectives. However, this tool, which invites you to avoid sedentary lifestyleIt is generating pressure and anxiety in some of its users.
Among those affected is the story of Nicole, who explained to Fortune that he reached a point where, if he did not close his rings at the end of the day, late at night he started walking from one side to home at his home to achieve the objectives suggested by the device. “I realized that this is not healthy. It is something that consumes me. I didn’t train not to enjoy. It was about thinking all the time: what did the Apple Watch say? “He said. That is why he said goodbye to the apple clock.
Nicole’s case is not isolated. To its history are added those of other users who have suffered the same experience and who have visible it through social networks and platforms such as Reddit. And, what began as a useful and intriguing tool, ended up becoming a “Discomfort”, in the best case, and, in the worst, in a “harmful obsession”according to user statements.
The obsession with controlling health and “autocomposition” app
As detailed by the financial environment, the Apple device is not the only physical activity clock that is bothering users. Complaints about “anxiety” and “obsessions” have also reached the Oura Ring and Whoop. The Apple Watch, however, remains the most famous health monitor, and the one that has taken the worst part of the criticism of the ‘fitness’ devices. This situation, despite its many health benefits and at least a remarkable case in which a person came to save life.
In this context, some of the users of this type of smart devices have manifested in Reddit that have been changing their Apple watches for a training tracking application called Gentler Streakwhich, according to your comments, is “softer” and “has an autocomposition approach to exercise, where recovery is as important as intensity.”
“After five years focusing on closing the rings, I decided that I don’t care,”
“After five years focusing on closing the rings, I decided that I don’t care,”a user wrote in Reddit. “I subscribed to Gentler Streak and enjoyed a healthier vision of exercise, in balance with my current body status,” he added
Another user in Reddit, explained that getting rid of Apple Watch, and all physical activity trackers, was a “game change.”
“No more stress for constant monitoring, no more notifications that friends have completed training and feeling like a vague for not having completed a training that day, no more reminders to stand up after walking during the last six hours and finally Sit in the car, “the user wrote in Reddit. “I feel free. I started enjoying my training without pressure and trying to stay in my areas. I reduced my stress and became healthier and more happy.”
For their part, on the same Reddit platform, they have come out Users to defend the clock And they claim that their rings, on the other hand, motivate them to do more physical activity, monitor health metrics and be more active in general.
In response to publications by the point of “anxiety” on rings closure, a person published: “The rings are destined to be a tool or referenceand not the end of everything. You must control the rings; The rings should not control you. “
Complaints have also appeared in Tiktok. In this social network, the influencer Sydney Adams King He said he was “ending with his Apple Watch.” “I feel that I pay too much attention and let him decide whether my training is good or not”he said.
The nutritionist and personal trainer Katy SaltsmanMeanwhile, he published in Tiktok that after a vacation that passed obsessively his Apple Watch to see the status of his objectives and activity rings, he realized how much those data points were weighing him.
“I realized how disconnected my body was”he said in the video. “There is also the stress of reaching these random numbers every day, where even my rest days did not feel repairing.”
The potential “risk” of following health
Given this phenomenon, science took the floor. Research has discovered that fixing health monitoring has the potential for “become detrimental in some cases, especially for perfectionists or people with a history of eating disorders or anxiety”Fortune has.
In this line, a report published in Science Direct On 2023 food behaviors, researchers discovered that “The calorie and physical state monitoring devices have been related to characteristics associated with eating disorders”. In addition, the participants of the study sample, whose Apple watches showed a few steps, “had reduced self -esteem and increased blood pressure and heart rate; they also ate more unhealthy compared to the participants whose steps -steps counts They were not manipulated. “
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