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stem in sports: technology
The smartphone
apps link with
wearable devices
to provide athletes
at all levels with
information they
can use.
people using these high-tech ways to keep in
shape.
Are they working? Technology won’t cut
pounds or increase a person’s
stamina
. Penn
State professor David Conroy told NPR News,
“One of the big challenges we’re having now
is how to make that data useful. We’re drown-
ing in data points without really capitalizing
on them to change behavior more effectively.”
In other words, all the apps in the world
won’t make you run, swim, jump, or sweat
. . . until you, to borrow another phrase from
sports, “just do it.”