Navigating the Balance Between Wellbeing Tech and Body Awareness

Could your high-tech health gadgets be betraying your natural instincts? I'm Dietrich from Get Fit Methods, and I'm here to challenge the increasing dependence on technology for health management, especially for women over 40. As I navigate the roads to the gym, I share my raw, unfiltered thoughts on the trend of letting devices dictate our wellness journey. We're equipped with the most sophisticated monitor there is—our own body. Yet, here we are, strapping on watches that tell us how we slept and gadgets that promise a full workout in a fraction of the time. If you're ready to reclaim your common sense in the health and fitness realm, this episode is your wake-up call.

During our drive-time discussion, I address the fads and quick fixes flooding the fitness industry. From sleep trackers to medication like Zempic for weight loss, I dissect the notion that these tools do more than we can naturally do for ourselves. The conversation takes a candid turn as I call out the absurdity of forgetting to trust our own feelings of tiredness, restlessness, or stress. Let's strip back the layers of tech to uncover the simple truths about health and fitness—and maybe save some money and frustration along the way. Tune in, share your thoughts, agree, or challenge me—let's navigate this intersection of technology and personal health together.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:13

Welcome everyone. This is Dietrich with Get Fit Methods. It's a FitLife Blueprint Lessons More to Get Fit Fast. I am actually on my way to the gym, so excuse the noise, I'm driving, but I do have my eyes on the road.

Speaker 1: 0:33

So what I have noticed and maybe you guys have noticed this too moved or have we moved to gadgets and trinkets and all these different kind of apparatuses to determine how we feel and what I mean by that. You probably know. Like you know, know, right now apple has a watch to tell you how much sleep you've had. Uh, there's another gadget out there. I can't think the name of the scientific name for it, but it's supposed to take a two-hour workout and condense it into 20 minutes and you put all these gadgets on and stimulators, all this. There's probably a few more gadgets out there too that I can't think of. Oh, your heart, heart rate or blood pressure now those are. You know, I still think that there may be some scientific to it. But anytime this man made and not, I see, manually, but anytime that it's man-made and not actually manually done, chances are it's not done well, and it kind of takes away from what we already know, our common sense, that if things are not right, it's just not right. You don't need a gadget to tell you that. You know how you feel.

Speaker 1: 2:01

But I think we relied on going to this place where everything has to have some kind of monitor to it, which the God-given monitor we have God-gifted is what you were born with. Say, for instance, have you ever felt like, oh, I feel a little tired today? Well, did I sleep well last night? Probably not. If I didn't, I don't really need a gadget for that. Oh well, I'm starting to get headaches. Maybe I should go to the doctor and get my blood pressure checked. Chances are got some things going on there. Don't need a gadget for that either. So I just think we're moving way away from what we naturally or instinctively know about ourselves. And this is all. This highway, or information highway with everything is YouTube or something like that, which I got that guess because I I go there too. But I think you definitely need to go back to what is naturally, instinctively, how we feel.

Speaker 1: 3:22

Now, this channel podcast is about women 40 plus trying to get them healthy, so this retains that too, because I'm sure there's women who are 40 plus folks. That same thing they're falling into with all these different gadgets I hear it all the time about. You know, oh, I didn't sleep well. Well, how'd you know that? Oh, well, said, I only had, like something, such such a realm sleep well before you had that gadget. Did you not know you didn't sleep well? And were you really concerned about your realm sleep well? Plan to go to sleep better, plan things around sleeping better. Uh, they watch won't tell you nothing, just except for what you know is going on already.

Speaker 1: 4:08

The same thing, while I'm on this rant, is for all the ones taking these uh and Zempic and all that kind of stuff to lose weight, where chances are. The same thing you got to do to lose weight on Zempix same thing you got to do anyway. You got to watch what you eat. You can't eat as much. You want to try to move more. It's the same thing. It's the same thing.

Speaker 1: 4:36

I just think common sense is going out the window. That's just the way I feel. Excuse me for the rant, I was just driving like something's going on here. I have to address it and if you guys are on the same bandwagon I'm on and you feel the same way, please leave something in the chat or, you know, drop me an email. Even see, we share the same. If we don't, it's fine too. We don't share the same. You know, likeness or same thing in mind, that you know what I'm ranting about, that's fine too.

Speaker 1: 5:07

But the whole thing is getting fit fit, get fit faster. Doing less, it's just that it's higher intensity. Uh, it's being aware of your body, which you mentally, physically, can handle by doing one set to absolute failure and you're done. It sounds sounds so simplistic, I know, and that's probably why most people are somewhat against it or they don't understand it, because we've been used to doing so much volume of everything, eating everything. So that's just my rant for the day. I just had to get on here and say something. I hope you guys have a great day, look forward to talking to you or seeing you soon Again. Get fit fit methods. Teach your core C Less is more to get fit fast. Have a pleasant day.