Chapter 16ACTIVE RECOVERY

Do you wear a Whoop strap on your wrist or perhaps a Fitbit, Apple, or Garmin? Maybe your tracking device of choice is the Oura Smart Ring? Or perhaps you see such wearables as unnecessary devices that do nothing more than cause paralysis by analysis. Well, if having your biometrics at the tip of your fingers is for you, you're not on your own. The number of connected wearable devices worldwide has more than doubled in the space of three years, increasing from 325 million in 2016 to 722 million in 2019.1 The number of devices is forecast to reach more than one billion by the end of 2022. The general idea is they can leverage your biometric data to provide a visual reminder of your health status. It can provide you ...

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