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This is a follow up post to address the comments/questions left in the Gowear Fit and Bodybugg article.

Real quick let me point out that there has been a new comment widget added on the side of the site to see who has left a new comment. I encourage you to leave comments and to come back when you have left one to see if it has been addressed. I get a lot of comment/questions that I have answered and then will later get an email/contact asking for my response when I have given it in the comment section.

So just a heads up on that. From now on I will do most of my follow ups in the actual comments unless it is needed to be in extreme detail.

Here are a few of the points/questions raised from the article.

Question: Can you provide more detail about the tests you do with the Bodybugg/Gowear?

Answer: At least 3 different long term experiments will be covered with the release of Body By Eats. I have saved the majority of the detail material for that if people want to dive further. The rest I will try to release here and there with the blog when I can.

Question: Do you still rent them out?

Answer: No. I don’t rent them out anymore and likely wont be doing so again in the future. I will only be doing this with clients that I work with as needed.

Question: Does the 15% error go in either direction?

Answer: Yes. It all depends on the activity you do and your conditioning. The devices don’t take heart rate into account either which means it doesn’t adjust to conditioning on certain levels.

Question: Why should I get your book to go with it?

Answer: You don’t have to but I feel it provides a full proof system. I figure why waste time. Still, without my books or without the devices  great success can be had. If you wish to do so you can access them here.

Question: How do you know it is off by that much?

Answer: First note that I put it is only in my opinion. Nothing was labeled as an absolute and I have no means of proof. I have done side by side comparisons with heart rate monitors and breath testing. I have tracked and measured progress of a high amount of clients. Based on the rate of loss vs activity and caloric intake, overall on an average, I would say to account for these types of errors to remove frustration and to focus on fine tuning if need. That is all.

Question: Price is all wrong yo, check it!

Answer: Yeah it appears there are too many sources of buying it so I removed that aspect of the review and focused on what matters most. Performance. They both perform the same way really. I have only seen a slight higher reading in gowears vs bodybuggs, but to a point where I barely feel right about saying it so i didn’t even include it in the review.

Question: As to overtraining – do you think that is due to the body’s adaption to the exercise (and thus greater caloric efficiency) or to cloaking?

Answer: I think it can be both, but I think efficiency is a mixed bag of good and bad. In some ways more efficient means slow down. It is the difference between a slow heart rate because of good conditioning and slow heart rate because you are sick.

When we overtraining/undereat is when things start to get all weird (thyroid, leptin, axis of stress, etc). Breaking and refeeding halts this.

I will see that time and time again the best pace of loss that I saw in conjunction to what the devices were saying were those that followed a program of programed training breaks and refeeds.


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