Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

Ep. #1065: The 5 Best Health Metrics to Track For a Healthier Life


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You can find countless ways to track your health, especially if you buy any of the latest gizmos and gadgets in the fitness wearables space. 

But most health markers aren’t worth keeping an eye on. 

With the “quantified self” movement on the rise in recent years, fitness wearable manufacturers and marketers will attempt to sell you on the benefits of all the health metrics you can track.

The truth is many health markers simply don’t matter. And some of these health indicators can even be actively misleading, as in the case of recovery scores produced by different fitness wearables, usually based primarily on heart rate variability.

In this podcast, I share 5 health markers that will allow you to monitor your health and ensure you're in good shape. I believe these 5 metrics constitute the 20% of all the things you could track, which produce 80% of the benefits or give you at least 80% of the overall picture of your health.

So, listen to this episode to learn the 5 health metrics that are actually worth tracking.


Timestamps:

(0:00) - Please leave a review of the show wherever you listen to podcasts and make sure to subscribe!

(2:43) - Blood pressure and its health metrics.

(6:56) - Body composition and why you should be measuring it.

(15:10) - How to measure your resting heart rate.

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(19:59) - Blood sugar and how to measure it.

(25:30) - Why should you measure your cholesterol and triglyceride levels?


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