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Steps are critical for your health—step more, die later.But until now, some popular activity tracking companies like WHOOP have resisted steps and proudly proclaimed they don’t count steps. Yet WHOOP recently caved and started counting steps.Today Michael will cover why steps are uniquely valuable and different from exercise, and why knowing your step counts can be like gasoline for:* Overall health, wellness, metabolic health, and calorie burn.* Avoiding weight loss plateaus.* Building killer endurance and avoiding a strange and troubling problem that is uniquely American.He’ll also cover early data WHOOP’s step count accuracy, and the step accuracy of six other tracking brands.

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