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Digital Devise to Aid During Work-outs
November 19, 2007 at 3:38 PM
General Health News
These devises may help by providing workout tips and alert exercisers whenever they skip any set, miscount any sequence, do any exercise wrongly or have a bad posture.
An exerciser may also use it to share important exercising tips with others. "People can use this to share their progress with others. They can share their secret and how they do their exercise," Discovery News quoted Keng-hao Chang, a graduate student of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, as saying.
The wireless sensors embedded in workout gloves are called accelerometers, which track motions in three directionsside to side, up and down, and front and back. Through a Bluetooth connection, the data collected is sent to a computer, where custom software analyses the information to distinguish a bicep curl from a tricep curl.
Another accelerometer fixed to the belt also gathers information about motions in three axes to distinguish whether the exerciser is standing or lying on a bench. Such data are significant because the motion of some exercisesviz., a bench press that works the chest and an overhead dumbbell press that works the shouldersare very similar.
Initial tests with the system showed that the sensors could recognize the exercises being performed 85 to 95 per cent accurately. The results also showed that out of 100 repetitions, the system miscounted by less than five.
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