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Fitness tips, updates, and insights from the Motion team.

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·8 min read

How to Count Steps on Apple Watch

Apple Watch tracks your steps but doesn't make it easy to see them. Here's how to find your count, put it on your watch face, and turn steps into something more motivating than a number.

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·8 min read

Best Solo Leveling Fitness App

The System gave Jin-Woo daily quests, stat tracking, and rank progression. Here's which fitness apps come closest to replicating that in real life.

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·8 min read

How to choose the best free running app for beginners

You don't need pace alerts, VO2max estimates, or segment leaderboards. You need to keep showing up. Here's what the research says matters most when you're starting out, and what to look for in an app that won't make you feel like you're already behind.

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·10 min read

How to start being healthy (when you don't know where to start)

You know you should "be healthier" but the advice is overwhelming and contradictory. This guide strips it back to what the research actually says works for beginners: move more (even a little), eat real food, sleep enough, set the right kind of goals, and stop trying to do it alone.

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·10 min read

Exercise Tips While on Wegovy (Semaglutide)

Wegovy is the only GLP-1 drug approved for both weight loss and cardiovascular risk reduction. That dual purpose changes how to think about exercise during treatment. Here's what the trial data says.

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·7 min read

Exercise Tips While on Ozempic (Semaglutide)

Semaglutide has a lean mass problem that tirzepatide doesn't. About 45% of weight lost in the STEP-1 trial was lean mass, not fat. Here's how to exercise on Ozempic in a way that actually addresses that.

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