Happy Wednesday! Get ready to explore this week’s most thrilling advancements in wellness-tech! 🚀 Let’s jump right in!

In this week’s newsletter:

• ⚡ iOS 17 unlocks new levels of personalized fitness

• 🧑‍🔬 Biohack your way to better running

• 🩺 Whoop, Oura, and Garmin’s personalized health monitors

• 💤 Health Hack of the Week: Power Napping

• 📐 Precision Training: Tailoring wellness with tech

📊 Poll of the Week 📊

Last week, we dived into various home workout trends…

And the answer that came out on top:

Tonal’s AI-powered strength training. 🏋️‍♂️

This week, we're exploring the world of health-monitoring wearables, a sector brimming with potential and innovations.

Given the surge in awareness and usage of wellness tech, we want to know:

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🧑‍💻 The Wellness-Tech Roundup

Apple Fitness Plus & iOS 17 Are Supercharging Personalized Fitness 🍏

New kid on the block, iOS 17, brings a fresh batch of updates to Apple Fitness Plus, allowing users to kick their workout game up a notch! Released on 9/18, the update lets fitness enthusiasts build their own workout and meditation routines using the Custom Plans option.

Whether it’s seamlessly streaming your favorite workouts with the Stacks feature, or receiving tailor-made tips from trainers, iOS 17 is all about creating a fitness regime that’s uniquely you.

Plus, there’s a special treat for runners with the new Time to Run collection featuring a guided run and tour by Coach Sam Sanchez in picturesque Florence, Italy. 🏃🇮🇹

Key Takeaway: iOS 17 and Apple Fitness Plus are turning a new leaf in the fitness world, bringing personalization front and center in our fitness journeys. Here’s to making every drop of sweat count! 💦

Run Smarter: Biohacking Your Way to Better Performance! 🏃‍♂️

Running enthusiasts, listen up! Biohacking is paving the way for enhanced running experiences, and helping athletes to run smarter.

From strategically optimizing nutrition through nutrigenomics (how nutrition affects gene expression), to harnessing wearable tech like Fitbit and Oura ring to track sleep and recovery, runners now have a wealth of actionable strategies at their fingertips!

Experiments like adjusting your caffeine intake based on genetic makeup, or utilizing infrared light therapy post-run, can lead to big breakthroughs in performance and wellness.

Key Takeaway: There’s no magic bullet for peak performance. However, runners can integrate biohacking with traditional training and healthy living to unlock new potentials in:

• Optimizing your body's functionality

• Refining athletic performance

• And potentially slowing the aging process

Keeping those legs moving towards the finish line with vigor.

The Next Wave of Fitness Wearables ⌚

Companies like Whoop, Oura, and Garmin are advancing the fitness wearables industry, introducing features that act as personalized health monitors.

Oura's ring offers state-of-the-art heart rate data, while Whoop's Strength Trainer provides insights into cardiovascular and muscular load. Garmin is exploring remote patient monitoring, offering insights into activity levels and sleep patterns, and contributing to medical research.

The aim of all this? To empower users in optimizing wellness and performance.

Key Takeaway: Innovations in fitness wearables are transforming them into advanced health monitors, offering personalized insights and supporting medical research, enabling users to optimize their wellness and achieve their fitness goals. 🧠

📲 The YDY Download

HealthHack is the sister publication of YDY, the "kart style" fitness video game that lets you compete against others using your heart rate as fuel!

We’ve added 7 new races this week across our four different levels.

Shoutout to Jarod Burton for climbing up the leaderboard. 🙌

🌿 Health Hack of the Week: Power Napping 💤

Ever get that mid-afternoon sluggish feeling?

You’re not alone! Almost everybody experiences energy dips in the late afternoon.

One great solution? Take a power nap.

A quick power nap for 20-30 minutes can be a game-changer for energy levels.

It’s enough to reboot your brain, enhancing cognitive and motor functions, without pushing you into the disorienting realms of REM sleep.

If you’ve taken a nap longer than 90 minutes, you may have woken up feeling super disoriented.

That’s the REM sleep talking. Avoid it like the plague when you’re taking a daytime nap!

Research suggests that avoiding longer naps can also help you steer clear of health pitfalls like high blood pressure and increased body weight. 🛌💤

💡 To learn more, check out this short clip of Andrew Huberman talking about the the profound benefits of embracing shorter naps.

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Precision Training: The Pinnacle of Wellness Technology

Precision training is unfolding as a dynamic frontier in wellness technology, blending advanced sensors, data analytics, and personalized feedback to refine workouts and enhance results.

It's a nexus where technology meets wellness, allowing unprecedented levels of customization and precision in fitness routines.

Samsung and University of Michigan’s Collaboration: A Leap in Precision

Samsung's innovative partnership with the University of Michigan is focused on enhancing the capabilities of the Galaxy smartwatches, delivering more accurate measurements of key metrics like VO2 max and sweat loss.

This endeavor aims to provide runners with precise training guidance, catering to individual fitness levels and hydration needs during workouts, thereby minimizing the risk of injuries and optimizing performance.

FORM: Revolutionizing Swimming with Augmented Reality

FORM is at the forefront of transforming swimming experiences, employing augmented reality goggles to provide swimmers with real-time feedback on pace, stroke count, and distance.

They were the first company to introduce smart swim-goggles to the world, and they’ve been on an upward trajectory ever since.

FORM’s technology enables precision coaching tailored to each swimmer's unique needs, offering insights and adjustments stroke by stroke, and has already been deemed revolutionary by the swimming community.

With this claim on their website:

“Shave seconds off your pace and minutes off your race time.”

FORM could be a big name to watch out for in the next few years.

Apple Fitness Plus: Personalization and Customization with iOS 17

As highlighted earlier, Apple's iOS 17 has ushered in a new era of customization in Apple Fitness Plus. Users can now curate their workout or meditation routines and receive a more personalized mix of exercises and relaxation techniques.

The innovations include seamless integration of favorite workouts and meditations with the introduction of Stacks and fresh collections like Time to Walk and Time to Run, enriching user experience with diverse fitness choices and celebrity interactions.

As Apple CEO Tim Cook once said: “I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, “What was Apple's greatest contribution to mankind?”, it will be about health”.

Tonal, Peloton and More: Precision in Fitness Hardware

In the realm of fitness hardware, pioneers like Tonal and Peloton are embracing precision training by employing machine learning to monitor detailed workout metrics.

These companies are refining digital weight selections and resistance levels, providing unparalleled customization that accurately targets specific muscle groups for each user, balancing muscle use and enhancing overall fitness results.

Holistic Personalization: Whoop, Oura, and Fitbit

Beyond mere biometrics, companies like Whoop, Oura, and Fitbit are elevating precision training by incorporating psychological and lifestyle data, offering a 360-degree view of an individual's health.

These innovations are using continuous health data to provide holistic personalization that factors in energy levels, stress, recovery time, and more, paving the way for a more balanced and integrated approach to wellness.

The Future of Precision Training

Experts believe that the current innovations are merely the tip of the iceberg.

The development of predictive insights, leveraging individual biometrics, fitness history, and goals, is predicted to render even more tailored recommendations and automated adjustments.

The fusion of cutting-edge sensor technology with AI-powered coaching promises a future where personalization in wellness is not just an option but a standard.

Conclusion

Precision training is rapidly evolving, spearheaded by tech giants like Samsung, Apple, and FORM.

It represents a synthesis of technology and wellness, delivering an unprecedented level of personalization and optimization in fitness routines.

As technology continues to advance, the integration of wellness and tech is poised to unlock even more possibilities, helping people achieve optimum health and fitness goals with unparalleled precision and insight.

🌟 That’s all for today! See you next week with more wellness-tech wonders! 🌿