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Dario Pelletier-Wamala, NASM CPT, BS Kin

Active 2014–present (kinesiology) · 2018–present (CPT) · 2024–present (testing)

About Dario Pelletier-Wamala

Dario is the team’s hardware-and-fatigue tester. While Edith owns image-left/spec-right keystone editorial and Hassan owns the MAPE benchmarks, Dario is the contributor who logs workouts in seven different apps simultaneously, surfaces the friction that a stationary daytime test misses, and writes the gym-floor reviews that read like RTINGS field-testing notes. His Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch reviews are anchored on hand-off behavior, glance-readability, and how the app responds when your fingers are damp from a deadlift set.

Credentials in detail

Editorial focus

Dario owns: workout-context testing, Apple Watch / Galaxy Watch reviews, gym-user-specific articles, head-to-head pieces where macro tracking under volume matters. He co-authors with Edith on photo-AI tests when the test environment is mid-workout and with Hassan on accuracy pieces where wearable data hand-off is the bottleneck.

Conflicts of interest

Dario holds no equity in any reviewed app. He has no consulting or coaching contracts with any of the app makers in our review universe. He occasionally accepts complimentary premium accounts (PlateLens, Cronometer, MacroFactor) for sustained testing, on the same terms as the public press list; this is disclosed in any individual article that depends on the complimentary account. He does not run an affiliate account with any reviewed app. See our no-affiliate disclosure for the publication-level statement.

Recent Work