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Dr David Lipman

@drdavidlipman.bsky.social
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Health and Human Performance Specialist | Co-Founder | Scientific Advisor | Wearables | Marketing & Content

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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Garmin has made a few BIG acquisitions recently These have the potential to disrupt the industry as they build out their ecosystem. Theres lots to think about in this for individuals in the health and performance space! healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/whats-cook...
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What’s Cooking Over at Garmin?
A look into the health & performance ecosystem quietly being built by a big player in the wearable market and what it means for you
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s the biggest mistake endurance coaches are making? It’s got with applications across all sports and for health healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/skill-deve...
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Endurance Coaching
The health and performance benefits of skill development
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What’s the perfect program? Great question and a helpful thought experiment to guide decision making for folks! healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
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The Perfect Program
What is the perfect program for health and performance?
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Travel is far more than leisure or work, it’s an indicator of things to come. Do you pass the travel test? More in the comments
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Lots to learn in the health and performance realms from UTMB last week. Enjoy some thoughts and would love to hear others’ takeaways healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/what-we-ca...
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What We Can Learn from UTMB
Health and Performance Observations from the World’s Biggest Trailrunning event
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Which health and performance outcomes are about peak efforts and which are about average? A helpful set of heuristics for all health and performance goals healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/peak-or-av...
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Peak or Average; Which is More Important
Dissecting parts of health and performance and what moves the needle for them.
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The master currency in sport has pretty much always been power. It’s increasingly being recognised for its role in health though. More on these, their reasoning and how to develop power in comments
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Health and performance is full of paradoxes. Here are some I’ve been navigating with some thoughts on them healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/paradoxes-...
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Paradoxes in Health & Performance
Important paradoxes to improve health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How do you build the perfect athlete? This and the role of constraints in creativity and long term success in my article this week. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/perfect-at...
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Building the Perfect Athlete
Lessons for health and performance from a thought problem
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What started as a bike race to sell newspapers is now a testing ground for innovation and cutting edge performance insights. What can we learn from this year’s Tour de France? healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/insights-f...
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Insights from the Tour de France
What can the Tour de France teach us about health and performance?
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What’s the difference between placebo and the belief effect? What are the implications for health and performance? More here: healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/belief-or-...
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Is it Belief or Placebo?
Teasing out the differences between belief and placebo in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The role of humans in AI & humans in the loop as a concept in performance, Dr Susie Reiner helped me with some insights from an upcoming paper she’s written on the topic. Including her great framework for thinking about it healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/humans-in-...
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AI in Health & Performance pt 3
A look at the roles humans should be playing in use of AI in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A look at AI use in both performance and the field of science. You’d be surprised by the challenges it’s presenting in science and the innovations it’s bringing to performance healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/ai-in-perf...
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Is AI Driving the Performance Gains We're Seeing?
Part 2 of an Evaluation of AI in Health & Performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Finally did some writing about AI in health and performance. Some food for thought for folks who are not familiar with its application in those spaces or only have rose coloured glasses for it (it’s always a balance) healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/ai-in-heal...
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Will AI Make us Healthier?
Part 1 of an Evaluation of AI in Health & Performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There’s a lot of advice in the health & performance spaces online, navigating it can be brutal. I penned this piece with criteria for evaluating the source for people to better interpret advice. The criteria may surprise you healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/who-should...
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Who Should You Listen To?
A toolkit to evaluate information sources by in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We tend to focus on what injured folks can’t do rather than how we can keep them improving. It’s a disempowering viewpoint I explore a better way to approach this, including examples is here: healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/ask-not-wh...
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Ask Not What You Can’t Do, But What You Can
The most important shift in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It’s always tech informed, not tech dependent. We should be building capacity rather than dependency. It’s with that in mind that I outlined my use of Stryd in both health & performance realms
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wearable data is often used to course correct or adjust, reactively. Much more rarely is it used proactively for planning using a broader timescale of data. This is what @drpetertierney and I wrote about, including our data and a “how to” healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/how-to-bet...
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How To Better Use Wearable Data
Zooming out to be more proactive than reactive with wearable data
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Companies fail for many reasons, especially startups and including wearable companies. This isn’t an exhaustive list of reasons but includes some crucial product related reasons that are solvable healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/where-and-...
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Where and Why Wearables Fail
Observations on product hurdles for health and performance wearables
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
For the longest time we thought that excessive exercise impaired immunity. New research changed my mind on this. More here: healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/immunity
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Are You Running Towards or Away from a Cold?
The role of exercise in immunity
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Some recent grumblings from whoop about a paper from last year made me reflect on industry standards and who decides on them. It’s a tough question but an important one for the industry and consumers alike. More in the link in comments
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The discourse around London marathon and performances there has been extensive and interesting to say the least. The thing that caught my eye was Kejelcha’s fueling and the lessons we can take from that as it pertains to health & performance healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/what-can-w...
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What Can We Learn from a Sub 2hr Marathon
A examination of aspects of a sub 2 hour marathon in the health and performance realms
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Initial success can be a falsely reinforcing loop, especially when misunderstanding physiology and first principles. This pattern seems to be rife, for example in volume or body weight discussions in endurance sport More here: healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/the-proble...
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The Problem with Success
The traps of misattribution and skipping steps in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Biometrics are ever expanding and sampling “waste” makes sense in a lot of contexts. A new paper suggests we could measure stress from your toilet healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/measuring-...
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Measuring Stress from a Toilet Near You
A look at a paper quantifying allostatic load
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
There are some trends I have spotted that are about to break and become mainstream, they're classic of the current media & social media environment - don't be fooled though, they're just under-nuanced takes. More here: open.substack.com/pub/healthpe...
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Keep an Eye Out for This and Don't Fall for It
Some things that will emerge soon in the health & performance spaces
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
What do you do when your wearable and feeling disagree? How do you modify training when sick? @drpetertierney.bsky.social and I cover this other factors like HRV & AI illness detection in this piece. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/illness-tr...
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Illness, Training & Data vs Feelings
How to use objective data with your perception to guide decisions and what to do when they don't line up
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Interested in health or performance (or both and their interplay) there’s something for you here. These are my top performing articles from over 2 years of weekly articles healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/start-here
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Start Here
A guide to the back catalogue of Nexus Health & Performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Really impressive work building a model predicting insulin resistance AND crucially providing users with good advice to remedy the situation. Authors used a mix of wearables, demographics and easily available blood tests. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/wearable-i...
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Can a Wearable Help 'Solve' Diabetes?
A look at a recent wearable paper on prediction of insulin resistance.
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Some interesting research has been published recently looking at multivitamins, coffee’s link to the microbiome & finally a paper with lots of hype that’s largely being misinterpreted when it comes to sleep, exercise and their impact on aging. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/multivitam...
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Multivitamins, Coffee's Impact on the Microbiome & Sleep's Impact on Aging
A review of some recent high profile papers in the health and performance space
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Should we all see ourselves as athletes and embrace the athlete mindset? Or is this just marketing? I dissect it all here, with some high yield take aways for folks on lesser known aspect of the athlete mindset that could be helpful. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/embracing-...
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Embracing the Athlete Mentality
Lessons from the world of athletic performance for everyone to embrace
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New arrivals on the wearables market have seen some big hype and being excitement but what’s the science behind them? Is there data? What can we learn? healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/newcomers-...
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Some Newcomers to the Wearable Wars
A look at some recent wearable releases and what they mean for health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Sulforaphane is a fascinating molecule with quite a long history which has been a quiet darling in the health space for a while but has recently gained some hype in the performance space too thanks to Nomio, but what does the research actually say? healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/sulforaphane
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Was Your Mother Right? Is Broccoli the Answer?
Sulforaphane and it's use in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
As I wrote about a few weeks back, there's a difference between knowing and understanding. Never has this been truer than my own experiences with coffee, sleep and energy. That said, the learnings and some of the facts in this piece may surprise some folks. lnkd.in/gcVAB84x Keen to hear feedback
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Coaching as a practice extends well beyond the white lines of the sporting arena, and even beyond the boardroom. Here are some great lessons to be learned from some of the world's best coaches which can be applied broadly in the health and performance realms. open.substack.com/pub/healthpe...
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Lessons in Performance from a Master
Rassie Erasmus' lessons on performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Knowing something and truly understanding it are not the same. This manifests all over health & performance inside & outside of the sporting realm. More here: healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/knowing-vs...
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Do You Know? Or Do You Understand?
Examining the difference between knowledge and understanding in the world of health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Lessons for all from the world of hyrox and thoughts on what it needs to sustain momentum as well as its chances of Olympic inclusion healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/hyrox
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Hyrox
What we can learn from the athletes, their training and its Olympic bid
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Beyond the superficial 2026 health and performance trends you’ll see written about. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/2026-trend...
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2026 Trends to Watch
Trends that will shape health and performance in 2026
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Most under rated factor in health and performance? Environment by a margin. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/are-you-be...
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Are You Being Limited by Your Environment
A discussion of the role environment plays in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Most people aren’t auditing or reviewing their year at all, let alone well. Some thoughts on reviews and how to make them impactful here healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/dont-make-...
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Don't Make This Mistake Again
The Value of the Audit/Review in Health and Performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
After protein’s moment in the sun ends, the next can off the tank will be fibre (and justifiably so). Here’s a look at fibre for health and in athletic performance healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/you-should...
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You Should Probably Be Eating More Fibre
The other macronutrient in health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
What the NCAA XC war of words can teach us about health and performance healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/what-a-war... Spoiler - the paradox is both coaches are right but simultaneously neither are right
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What a War of Words Can Teach us About Health & Performance
A recent argument between 2 NCAA Cross Country Coaches is a treasure trove of learnings in the health and performance realms
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Why isn’t there more research on women and what can we do (for all stakeholders) to improve this? I’d love thoughts and opinions on the piece and potential solutions to add to it healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/why-isnt-t...
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Why Isn't There More Research on Women?
Examining a huge challenge in the health and performance spaces
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Most people have no idea how to evaluate if a coach is good or not (hint: having the best athlete is neither necessary nor sufficient to be a good coach coach). Some thoughts on the process here healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/what-is-co... What have I missed?
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What is Coaching?
An exploration of what good coaching entails and how to see it
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Ever wonder why more companies aren’t science based? Here’s some answers for you healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
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Why Aren't More Companies Science Led?
Dissecting what it means to be science led and the challenges that lie within
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Trigger warning I do my best to explain that marketing isn’t evil and that scientists should do more of it (including why I wanted to learn marketing) whilst also trying to explain how some scientists are using (and misusing it). I also talk about the use of science as a brand. lnkd.in/dwtBkTKY
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Trigger warning on some of these observations from 20 years in health and performance healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/observatio...
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Observations Worth Noting
Some observations on health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It’s pretty easy to be mislead in 2025 with people espousing advice left right and centre. It’s probably better to mute them and watch rather than listen 😉 open.substack.com/pub/healthpe...
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Don't Listen, Watch!
Filtering health and wellness advice in 2025
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Blood testing coming to your wearable, law suits over patents and even some meta trends to follow - it’s all here in my latest healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/blood-draw...
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Blood Drawn in the Wearable Wars
The latest from the wearables industry with implications for health and performance
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Some thoughts on wearables and the industry - specifically some things I’d love to see and folks need to understand. There’s something for everyone here - users, the industry and more. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/gifts-requ...
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Gifts, Requests & Gripes for the Users & Wearables Industry
Some thoughts on features and upgrades for wearable companies.
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Dr David Lipman @drdavidlipman.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
You can swap 10mins of vigorous activity for 10000 steps right?… Not really, it’s more nuanced than that. healthperformancenexus.substack.com/p/not-all-ex...
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Not All Exercise is Created Equal
Understanding load application for desired health and performance goals
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