The Top Fitness and Health Metrics to Track, Optimize, or Ignore
Should You Trust Your Wearable or Yourself?
This week on the Run Long, Run Healthy podcast, Thomas Watson and I walk through 30 of the most popular running metrics - whether it's weekly volume, cadence, HRV, or VO2 Max - discuss the merit of each one and attempt to sort them into three buckets: Optimize, Track, or Ignore!
We also discuss the deluge of metrics in recent years, how to separate signal from noise, why some of the best metrics can't be measured by a wearable - and we both pick a if-you-could-choose-only-one metric...
Enjoy!