Imagine waking up feeling refreshed, well-rested and ready to exercise. You have the energy for a workout, and your body feels good. Then you check your fitness tracker and find your recovery score is 60%. Suddenly, you begin questioning whether you are really as ready to train as you thought.

For triathlete Ankita Konwar, this became a recurring experience for one year straight. After using a device to track her recovery and sleep for a year, she realised that the numbers on her screen were beginning to affect her confidence in her own judgement/

In a video shared on Instagram, Konwar asked, “Have we become so dependent on tracking our bodies that we have forgotten how to listen to them?” She explained that she would often wake up feeling energetic and ready to train, only to feel mentally discouraged after seeing a lower-than-expected recovery score.

“Slowly, as days went by, I started questioning my judgement. The judgement I learnt how to trust for over a decade.…