Joel Werner
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1,849 appearances
34 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2011
last heard Nov 2017
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But that's it, I'm Joel Werner.
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Usually when I go for a run, I strap a smartphone to my arm and I use a running app to monitor my workout.
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But for a lot of people, activity monitoring is way more of a full-time pursuit.
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Yeah, so I got a fitness tracker in around May last year.
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This is my friend Keegan, and I'm sure we all know someone like Keegan.
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Someone who swears by these devices.
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Hey,
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Werner and today on the Health Report we're gonna see how anecdotes squares up against science in the fitness tracker revolution.
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There's so much we could talk about when it comes to activity monitoring, but today we're gonna focus on consumer wearables.
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The kind of products that you'd buy off the shelf or the ones that you might already own.
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Robert Ferberg is a senior clinical informaticist at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute in North Carolina.
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we've been together eight
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He and his wife made a New Year's resolution that's probably familiar to a lot of us, to get fit and healthy.
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So they each bought a Fitbit, a popular wristband activity tracker, and for David at least, the device worked pretty much.
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So David took to the internet in search of a solution.
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He posted a description of the problems with his wife's device in the Fitbit subreddit, an online message board that hosts discussions for Fitbit users.
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And at first, the replies were kind of just shots in the dark.
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But then
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Something way more intriguing.
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