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Your Wearable Might Be Making You Worse

Daily Chase #162

Dec 16, 2025
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Your recovery score says you’re in the red. Should you skip training today?

This is the promise of wearables and health tech - data-driven decisions that optimize performance. But here’s what the research actually shows: we haven’t found a recovery metric that reliably predicts performance better than simply asking how y…

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