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How fitness tracking can sabotage your relationship with movement

My fitness tracker says I walked 12,000 steps today but I spent the whole day feeling like a lazy piece of garbage because my goal was 15,000.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Quantification transforms embodied joy into performance metrics, creating shame around the very activities meant to enhance wellbeing.

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