Category: Fitness Gadgets
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Dehydration More of a Risk for Me at Weddings and Graduations than During Exercise
Reading Time: 2 minutesI spent most of the day yesterday celebrating Dr. Joyce Kuykendall‘s Ph.D. in Social Welfare. {She’s my mother-in-law. Congratulations Mom!} It was conferred on her at the graduation ceremony for the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University in Manhattan. My wife and I travelled up to New York with her…
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“Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness” Will Be Released in July
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night, I saw the latest episode of The Lance Chronicles on the Outdoor Life Network. This episode focused on The Criterium International, training rides in Southern California, the Lance Armstrong Foundation Live to Ride Gala, and production of more Subaru ads. Chris Carmichael, Lance Armstrong’s personal coach, talks in this episode…
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Upcoming Philips Nike MP3 Player Aimed at Runners
Reading Time: 2 minutesDavid Carnoy reviews the prototype Philips Nike MP3Run, a 256-Megabyte flash memory-based MP3 player with a number of interesting extras. This MP3 player reportedly will incorporate a Bluetooth-enabled version of the speed and distance sensor used in products like the Nike Triax Elite, so that runners and walkers can gather statistics about…
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New Release of Nike Triax Elite Software Reportedly Improves Syncing with OS X
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the biggest issues with the Nike Triax Elite Heart Rate Monitor and Speed/Distance Monitor has been the difficulty owners had uploading exercise data from the watch to computers running the Apple Macintosh OS X operating system. A Macintosh user reports that a new release of the Triax Elite software…
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GPS Visualizer is a Platform-Independent Alternative for Visualizing Runs and Rides
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo weeks ago, I used USAPhotoMaps to map a 23.5-mile bike ride through Central New Jersey that I rode to test my new Garmin Forerunner 201. The idea for this ride came from the example set by Phillip Torreone in his howto article on Engadget. Since I did this I’ve received…
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Dartfish, Athletic Performance Visualization Company, Profiled in Time Global Business
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA special supplement to this week’s Time Magazine called Time Global Business profiled an athletic performance visualization company called Dartfish. Dartfish uses digital video technology to show athletes and coaches the mechanics of different activities performed in sporting events. The key technologies that Dartfish offers are Simulcam which overlays two separate…
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Getting Exact Lactate Threshold Measurements Using a Lactate Pro
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been TiVoing each episode of The Lance Chronicles on the Outdoor Life Network, looking for information about state-of-the-art fitness measurement devices. In the second episode, they showed Lance Armstrong and one of his trainers using a Lactate Pro, a handheld lactate threshold analyzer. This device reportedly costs about $300 with the…
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How Large is the Garmin Forerunner 201 Unit?
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the questions that I’ve been asked about the Garmin Forerunner 201 is how big is it? I took out my ruler and measured its dimensions, and I also took a few photographs of it next to a Polar S-710 heart rate monitor for comparison. The GPS unit that you wear…
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What’s in the Garmin Forerunner 201 Box?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI received my Garmin Forerunner 201 last week and began testing it in a variety of exercise situations. For those of you who are just joining this discussion, the Garmin Forerunner 201 is a Global Positioning System-based fitness measurement tool suitable for use during outdoor running, walking, in-line skating, and cycling. Before…