Fitness apps: Do they help or hurt?

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and today we got a few.
This one is I'm a flip flopper

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on it where I used to think
one way and now I think another way.

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Okay, but here can you discuss
the use of phone apps to track

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food and workouts? Pros Com recommended. I used to be a big hater

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on apps just because I thought,
like, because it is, they're so

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trendy and a million come and one
is decent and then a million leave,

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or people like follow bullshit, or
you'll have to pay twenty bucks a month

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to get a decent read from an
app where you don't need it. The

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other thing I was never we were
talking about the other day. I have

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a weird if I do have a
weird talent. I remember people's prs really

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good, and I remember like rep
sets and like what I've done, especially

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if I'm coaching someone like I never
took notes as a coach. I just

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knew where we were last week.
I'm really bad at that, and I'm

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even pretty decent like YouTube, and
I only see like fifty percent of you,

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But I just know ballpark, what
you can rep for five, what

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you have repped for a double or
whatever. It sticks in my head.

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If I actually coached you, I
just have it locked in my brain.

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So I have my own shit locked
in my brain. I don't know why.

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Maybe that's the little bit of math
savant I got from my dad,

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because my dad actually was like a
real fucking math whiz. So I never

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bid the journal obviously a huge bodybuilding
in I think thing guys would have Marcus

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out there as a journal that's like
two decades old as every work I was

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actually done in it. Nowadays it's
a little different because you have a coach,

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right, So a coach is normally
sending you a program, or there's

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plenty of apps where you're just tapping. Obviously people use Excel, etc.

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But I don't really use my fitness
spouse still, and I'll get a ballpark

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of what I'm eating tomorrow before I
go to bed, I put in tomorrow's

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meal. Yeah, I put the
whole day in helps a ton And that's

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how I coach people too. That's
how I coach any nutrition, to do

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it ahead of time, because then
you know what you're allotted that day,

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right, because if you're trying to
if you I meal one, it's going

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to take longer. Right, You're
like, oh how much egg should I

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have? And you're kind of measuring
out or like oh can I eat a

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pole it today? And now you're
wasting an hour on your phone. Where

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if I put everything in and then
I adjust it, now I know all

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right, breakfast is this, lunch, is this? Dinner's that for tomorrow?

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And then it also makes me not
go and sneak through taco bell on

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the way home. It is with
my timing, so like I'll see what

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I'm putting into the log and then
I'll just eat those things and finish way

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too early in the day, and
I'm like, shit, well I'm starving,

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and then I go off and then
track the rest of it. I

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mean, I don't do that anymore
because yeah, lessons learned. Yeah,

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but also like, um, when
I was tracking in class, I would

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just play on the rest of my
meals. So then I realized I was

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just thinking about food all day.
Yeah, that's not healthy. And then

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I just I'm just constantly thinking about
food on my mind when I was tracking.

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That's maybe why you do it the
night before my heal. You do

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the night before we starve and then
have like exact timing. So all my

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meal, I always eat a two
and then I always eat it six stall

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myself from thinking about food. That's
good too. Use the training app no,

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so yeah, Google sheets, Yeah? Yeah, interesting. So what's

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your flip flop that I used to
be very anti Now now I'm yeah,

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because I'll use like an imam mapp
when I'm doing cardio. Not that I

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was anti app obviously, but just
like I thought the whole thing was a

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gimmick. And it still kind of
is like you don't need them, um,

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especially when you're first starting. I
think that's I think that's my argument

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is that everyone's first starts and now
they want to go from zero one hundred

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and they're grabbing all these apps and
oh my god, I can't do this

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if without that, Like first,
you just gotta get in the habit of

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like not eating peaple and yeah,
the habit of walking like that app is

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not going to fix those habits.
No. No, I think that every

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one of these apps so that it
has you know, and some of them

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have some kind of AI built into
them. Aim. I'm finger quotes here.

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Um, they're all inaccurate, number
one. Yeah. They some of

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them are giving you additional calories for
the for your expenditure, which is dumb.

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Um. There are ones that do
projections that are not realistic. I

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mean, they're they're like kinds of
problems, like you you have to make

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them work for your situation. You
can't really take them off the shelf and

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just you know, I mean maybe
some people can, but I've never been

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able to. Typically they're not coaches. Yeah, they're like decent logs.

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Yeah, and that's and and sometimes
not even the greatest logs either. To

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do it in an app, I
don't know. And I mean if you're

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okay, so if you're trying to
lose a certain amount of weight in a

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particular amount of time for a particular
reason. Tracking is one thing. If

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you were doing a lifestyle change so
that they're still eating normal foods that you

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may not have the like totally accurate
macro breakdowns and calorie breakdowns and stuff like

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that. I think it's much harder
ye to use it, to use a

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tracking app. Yeah, it's definitely
a skill to do any of that.

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Right to go out to eat sushi
and still stick on your plan or eat

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with a group, Um, that's
with time. Yeah. I just think

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that that someone isn't not going to
roll out of bed in the morning and

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know how to do that. No, No, they won't even know how

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to use an app. I mean
Macro's as a as a term and as

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a general idea of how to track
food is a little bit more common now,

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But I mean I remember doing podcasts
five years ago and people arguing me

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it didn't matter. Luri's out was
still a big argument. Yeah, yeah,

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if it's your macro, Yeah,
I mean that that was a that

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was a niche group that understood that
concept, which is uh, the I

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don't know if there's a misconception per
se, but the vast majority still thought

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that, like carbs were bad,
frees were just one piece of the equation.

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And and obviously depends on what your
goal is, but losing weight,

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calories are the equation. There's no
other equation, performance, building muscle,

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looking good, feeling good, living
a long time. There's more to the

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equation for sure, and then you
can have okay, but if you all

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those two thousand calories in one sitting
and it's all donuts, yeah, you're

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probably not gonna feel awesome. You
might lose weight from it, Yep,

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you definitely possibly can. Yeah,
but you're not going to feel your body

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the way that it needs to in
order to perform, and you're not going

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to look how you want if you
do that for six months. Yeah,

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even if you are in Yeah,
protein protein, adequate, protein is gonna

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matter. Obviously, water is gonna
matter, and then fiber some micronutrients will

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probably do you good. So you
don't get butthole cancer. I guess it

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does take into account macros, So
you are going to you should be hitting

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like your proteins carbson fats, so
like there is that. It's not just

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calories. Yeah, especially depending on
this easy because it like you track each

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racker protein and calories, because that's
all the kind of matters because you're not

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actually like tapping into that many resources
when you power lift, but you start

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to get into like sprinting, soccer, even bodybuilding, other sports where yeah,

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how much carbs how much fat definitely
plays a role, even running and

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shit like that, ultra marathons especially
those things. Yeah, the ratios are

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going to matter a lot more on
how you feel. And I would even

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say for the because you're still pretty
young, but we're just joking about out

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there. Even for the the soccer
mom that wants to get fit and jacked,

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the ratio of carbs to fat can
can have a huge role on how

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you feel. Yeah, not necessarily
on how you look. Calories will matter

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most, but it will depend on
how you feel daily and so you can

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manipulate those pretty good. But lifting
wise, I've never really used one.

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Now. I my heart rates cool
to check just just because I want to

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do two like harder cardio days than
four. Not a new watch now,

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so talking about his heart rate old
watch it's ten year old. Yeah,

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I don't try carbs and fats because
I know I'm eating them. It's not

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that I'm not okay, I'm definitely
eating them. But also because of the

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relationship I have with tracking it.
In the past, I was tracking to

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the ground for all my macros and
then I developed like a bad relationship with

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food that I do have to track
again because I have a strict weight,

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like I have to eat weight.
I have to track in order to do

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that. But I'm kind of compromising
with myself and allowing me a little bit

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of freedom by just tracking calories and
then trying to hit like a decent amount

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of protein each day. You're taking
account of your mentals to otherwise it's not

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sustainable. I'll be able to do
it for maybe a month, and then

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I'll fall off when it really matters. Yeah, each person is different there.

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And I've been talking because I'm helping
a couple of gym members with their

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nutrition, some guys that have some
big dreams and powerlifting, and it is

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a fine line like, uh,
you know, this may not be the

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advice that everyone want to give,
but like, if you have like extreme

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goals, it's going to take a
measures. So would you rather have a

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bad relationship with food where you're binging
all day and you're fucking eating donuts all

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day every day, or be a
little bit obsessed with the scale and tracking,

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but you're at a healthy body fat
and if you have big goals,

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that's probably what it's going to like, it's gonna suck. Yeah, Like

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we're obsessed with how our body feels, we're obsessed with how our body moves.

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But if you want to be great
at something, you probably can't step

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into it casually. Yea. For
the masses, for sure, you can

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find a balance. You can you
can have that birthday cake and and you

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know, for guys maintain around fifteen
percent body fat, that's definitely possible.

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But if you're trying to or even
push yourself to be below ten percent body

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fat, you're probably gonna have to
do some extreme measures. Take your poison.

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It's all going to be uncomfortable.
Yeah, it's either you give in

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to your cravings and now you're unhappy
with how you look, how you feel.

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You're guilty for eating these things.
You're punishing your now because you ate

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those things. Um, so you
guys to feel uncomfortable that way, or

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you're uncomfortable with like stepping on the
sale every morning, tracking your weight,

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waiting eat your food because it takes
a little longer each day. Yeah,

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Eric Helm said it best to me, is like everyone's always talking about balance

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and it can relate to anything,
whether it's a relationship with food, exercise,

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or life, family, whatever.
One thinks balance is like an equilibrium,

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but what balance really is is a
teeter totter and you're overcompensating one thing

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out of time. Right So right
now, you've got to be obsessed with

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nutrition because you're about to go into
national So yeah, you're going to be

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obsessed over here. But then Christmas
comes and maybe you can push more towards

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your family and nutrition takes a back
road and instant microadjustments to find that.

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Any apps you use, my fitness
Pal, that's all I use. That's

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pretty much it. As I have
used my Fitness Pal, I've used macro

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Factor, I have briefly used Carbon
They're all kind of okay, you know

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what I mean, sim I feel
like macro Factor is a little bit better

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for people who are are just you
know, casual with you know, with

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weight loss or not not toward a
particular goal or whatever. Yeah, general

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tracking, Yeah, yeah, I
use um my fitness Pale just because that's

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what I started twelve years ago,
and then I've been using it's a stupid

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as smart wad timer um and that's
just for my cardio. You can set

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different intervals, you can set different
times it beeps for you. So if

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you want to do an e mom
every minute on the minute, if you

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want to go thirty seconds on,
thirty seconds off rest work kind of deal.

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I've been using a lot of that, and then otherwise yet basic heart

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rate monitor, Instagram and YouTube.
We're not talking about his general apps.

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I use Instagram to track my value
as a person in society. That's true.

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That's true. I'm doing okay,
let's see if we can get her

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to ten thousand, actually be valued
as a human, and then I'll care

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about myself. I don't deserve it
right now? Where can they find you?

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Abby? It's not a job.
Follow me at a dot lou um,

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um, not on, I mean
not taking people. You can do it.

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You can do it. You can
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the Obscure Celebrity Network and it's actually
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the person who asked that question?
Um, it's on Instagram, So I

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don't know if they that leak,
Okay, all right, we'll do We'll

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just let them be, you know, anonymous or whatever.