This is not a question but a set of tips to extend your battery life:
1- avoid watch faces with any dynamic data, especially the ones updated every second. Features that usually don’t use much power: connectivity, date and time with no seconds;
The deal would make Alphabet a player in the wearable fitness tracking space, competing against the likes of Apple, which recently released a new version of its popular smartwatch. Google licenses its Wear operating system to companies such as Fossil but does not currently make its own smartwatch.
Google has described its hardware strategy as “ambient computing,” meaning users should be able to access its services wherever they are. Buying Fitbit could be a play to make Google services a greater part of customers’ lives and measure up to Apple in the health and fitness space. Google hired former Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg last year to consolidate its health-care strategy. The company announced several new hardware products earlier in October, including the new Pixel 4 smartphone.
If you’ve been waiting patiently for a connected foam roller, you’ll be glad to know it’s finally here. JAXJOX’s new release, following the success of their smart KettlebellConnect, is the Foam RollerConnect.
Activbody, Inc., a health and fitness product innovator, is excited to announce that their flagship product, Activ5, a portable isometric strength-training device, is now available at apple.com and in select Apple Stores around the world.
Users will be able to experience the Activ5 and its companion training app in person and try out over a hundred personalized 5-minute strength training workouts – right there in the store.
Activ5 recently announced an Apple Watch app and the adoption of HealthKit. The app includes exercise and heart rate monitoring and calculates energy burned. Activ5 is the only strength training device available on HealthKit, allowing users to see their data tracked on Apple Watch in the Apple Health app on iPhone.
As of October 28, Strava will no longer support direct Bluetooth and ANT+ pairing, according to an email sent to its users.
The company discovered a bug that causes the social training platform to crash for millions of users when heart rate and power devices were paired directly to the app.
Users must now capture heart rate and/or power data through GPS units or one of dozens of Strava supported training apps.
The two-hour barrier and the women’s marathon world record both fell this weekend. The history makers, Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei, have one obvious thing in common.
Gore-Tex has been the leader in waterproof fabrics for decades, and today, they’re announcing a complete overhaul of their flagship fabric, Gore-Tex Pro. So this week we went to Banff, Alberta, and sat down with the category manager of Gore’s “Pro” line, Mark McKinnie, for an in-depth discussion about the new fabrics. We talk about what makes the new Gore Pro unique; the 3 different versions of Gore Pro; Gore’s intensive validation and field-testing processes; how the new ‘Pro’ fits into Gore’s sustainability goals; and much more. [audio, 40:43]
Perhaps the science textbooks of the future will add a new step to the scientific method: “consult with AI.” That’s because scientists are using artificial intelligence to help them design brand-new materials that solve human challenges like never before.
A team of materials scientists at TU Delft University in the Netherlands have created a new material that is super-compressible, yet durable..
… Extensive medical research shows there is a 100 percent survival rate if a person with heat stroke is immersed in ice-cold water within 10 minutes. The body can be brought to a safe temperature in 15 minutes.
But on that day, there was no tub. Nor was there an athletic trainer on site.
I think athletes often pursue a state of tiredness and soreness as a validation of training. Walking around with sore legs? That means you’re doing enough. Tired during runs? Heck, yes, you worked hard for that. I don’t think that’s the best approach for most athletes.
Here’s my rule for athletes: if you’re tired for more than 36 to 48 hours, back off training until you feel good again. Let’s call it the Lizzo Standard: training should feel “Good As Hell,” even if it means you are doing less work over time than you could otherwise.
IBM Research Blog; Josh Andres, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, and Yuyang (Eric) Zhang from
The frustration of being stuck at a red light is universal and electric bike, or ‘e-bike’ riders are no exception. But collaborative research between IBM Research-Australia and RMIT University’s Exertion Games Lab has resulted in a system that allowed humans and bikes to work together to catch more green lights.
Bike touring is an effortful leisure activity that is loosely structured around riding one’s bike (at minimum) for multiple days. For some this may entail a couple of weeks, while others stay on the road for more than a year at a time. Some focus on a sense of self-reliance; bringing along camping and cooking gear, often inside panniers attached to their bikes, while others prefer to stay at hotels or rely on network hospitality via platforms such as CouchSurfing or, more specifically to the bike touring community, a network called WarmShowers. While bike touring is demanding both psychologically and physically, we look at it as an example of nomadic activity that resists subordination to the ideals of work and productivity. As such, it gives us an interesting view of how people negotiate the boundaries between work and other parts of their lives.
Apart from the pedaling itself, bike touring is about balancing social needs against alone time, or balancing between structure and managing varying amounts of uncertainty and risk. Where will I sleep tonight? Do I want to join this friendly group of people on their itinerary for a certain amount of time?
Although the link between sleep, health, and performance has been well documented, research on this link in collegiate student-athletes is still in its infancy. A large body of evidence indicates that collegiate student-athletes are not obtaining enough sleep, but less is known about their sleep quality, patterns, and the impact on health and performance. Consequently, short sleep negatively affects physical and mental health, as well as several domains of performance (ie, aerobic, anaerobic, sport-specific, cognitive). The majority of studies examining the links between short sleep, health, and performance have been conducted with healthy adults or noncollegiate athlete samples; however, collegiate student-athletes have demands unlike those of their nonathlete or noncollegiate athlete counterparts. Poor sleep health and sleep disorders are of increasing concern among the college athlete population and have recently been recognized by national and international sports governing bodies. The purpose of this review is to summarize the available literature on sleep and its impact on health and performance among athletes, specifically addressing gaps where little to no data is available on collegiate student-athletes. Consideration is also given to evidence-based sleep interventions that have been utilized with athletes, as well as recommendations for future research and intervention development.
Physiologists, sports scientists and trainers have long used training load monitoring as a frontline tool to help elite athletes efficiently maximize their potential and minimize injury risks. In recent years, the ability to record the impact of your activities has become increasingly available with GPS training watches, smartwatches, cycling computers and other fitness devices.
In this interview, physiologist Aki Pulkkinen, M.Sc., Firstbeat co-founder and current head of consumer products, explains the background of training load and how the insight it provides can help you reach your own personal fitness and performance goals.
Sports Lifestyle & Health Group, Department of Public and Occupational Health of the Amsterdam UMC from
… This study showed that about one-third of the novice runners participating in a running program stopped running within six months. To decrease the discontinuation of running extra attention should be paid to injury prevention, both during running programs and in future studies evaluating the effects of preventive measures for runners. Furthermore, precautions should be taken to prevent discontinuation of running among women with low perceived physical functioning and without prior running experience.
National Geographic, Christine Bednarz and Jonathan "Jonk" Jimenez from
A weed-covered, wrought iron greenhouse next to a boarded-up castle in Belgium might give some people pause, but not French photographer Jonathan “Jonk” Jimenez.
“It’s a rusty place with broken windows, but still it’s beautiful. I like to find beauty where you think you cannot find beauty,” Jimenez explains. After traveling to more than 700 abandoned locations in 33 countries on four continents, Jimenez released his photographs in a book, Naturalia: Reclaimed by Nature.
The Granite State’s new Office of Outdoor Recreation Industry Development will focus on boosting its workforce, bringing in new business and improving land access.