There’s something powerful about seeing the numbers.
Heart rate. Distance. Recovery score. Readiness.
A small screen telling you how your body’s doing, or at least trying to.
Wearable tech has changed the way we train. It keeps us accountable, helps track progress, and adds structure to the chaos. It can show when to push and when to hold back. For a lot of athletes, it’s become the extra coach on the wrist.
But there’s another side to it.
When every run, sleep, or session is tracked, it’s easy to forget how to feel what your body’s saying. Not everything that matters shows up in data. Sometimes, the best gauge of readiness is how you move, not what your watch tells you.
The real value of wearable tech comes from balance.
Use it to guide patterns, not control decisions. Let the data support your instinct, not replace it.
Pair the numbers with how your body feels post-session; the tightness you roll out, the activation you do before training, the small cues that tech can’t read. That’s where performance really lives, in the link between information and intuition.
Technology is useful. But awareness is powerful.
Combine both, and you’re training smarter, not just harder.
