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Which phone/workout system will reign supreme? Two phone/MP3 player/ Web workout products, Samsung and Adidas or Nike and Apple are going head to head to see which workout system will outsell the other and overtake the other.
What is This Workout/Phone System?
Not unlike a mile tracker for conscientious walkers, these new capacitive sensor gadgets are cell phones with Internet connectivity, connected to an acceleration sensor to measure your athletic performance. Instead of watching one’s performance monitored on an elliptical machine or treadmill at the gym, the Adidas/ Samsung miCoach or the Nike+ iPhone/iPod/iTouch are made up of a couple different components that one wears on their body and or shoe to create a complete set.
Music and watching one’s progress helps motivate athletes. The busy person is now able to have their phone and megapixel camera on them at the same time.
miCoach
This new gadget is for people on the go. This new hi- tech gadget that has athletes’ attention is called a miCoach System, by Samsung and the Adidas corporation. The miCoach System uses sensitive capacitive sensor to measure an athlete’s heart rate, speed, distance and endurance levels. The set includes a heart rate belt, a stride sensor that attaches to an athlete’s shoe and a mobile phone with a web based training tool. Together, each component helps to accurately calculate an athlete’s performance, monitor your speed and success and helps you organize upcoming workouts. The inner workings include capacitive sensors that work in part of a 3-axis accelerometer that is able to measure acceleration, motion and inclination. The phone is attached to an armband, but communicates via a headphone to update the user on the progress. The miCoach will tell the user if they need to speed up or slow down depending on the information that was programmed into the system. The website included in the workout tool comes with more that 220 training programs, and fitness plans for weight loss, marathons and target speeds.
iPod Sport Kit
The Nike + Apple combo allows you to attach the device to your running shoe or to participating gyms who have the iPod touch cardio machines. At the gym you can plug in and record your pace, time and distance as they work out. When you are not at a gym that has the convenient machines, then you use an iPod nano, or iphone, and insert an iPod Sport Kit Sensor into your Nike running shoe and attach the receiver to your iPod. The sensor will track your running and send the information to the iPod. The iPod Sport Kit also offers Nike Sport Music content that has a workout-based pumped up tunes to keep you running.
Today athlete is now digital. Instead of stop watches, yardage and viewed distance as ways to measure an athlete’s progress- coaches and athletes look to modern technology to keep ahead of the competition.
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