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 signa…