Im in US NEWS & WORLD REPORT again, weighing in on the unhelpful-ness of tracker gadgets like the FitBit: That type of motivation to exercise is unsustainable, says Kelly Coffey, a personal trainer and coach in Northampton, Massachusetts, who teaches an online course built around the message that physical activity and healthy eating can, and should, be enjoyable. “For everybody who should be doing more activity, the only way they’re ever going to develop a relationship with [an] activity so that it’s sustainable over a lifetime is if they learn to enjoy it,” she says. “And if you’re focused on a number, a goal, and that’s the point of the activity you’re doing, you’re not allowing any space available to develop a relationship to what you’re doing.” Trackers can also hinder users from finding their own motivation to exercise, something Coffey teaches clients to do in her course.” That pleasure principle, she says, encourages clients to be mindful of the in-the-moment happiness that exercise and healthy eating can induce. “Being focused on the end result with the tracker would be decidedly not focusing on the present,” she says.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:03:17 +0000
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