The first wireless heart rate monitor was the Polar Sport Tester PE 2000, which was released in 1982. As you can imagine, the entire fitness tracking and wearables industry has significantly evolved since then. For as long as human beings have participated in varying forms of fitness they have kept track of fitness statistics in […]
When it comes to fitness training, Chris Chapman has done a little bit of everything. He has trained gymnasts, freestyle skiers, basketball players, and most recently, athletes for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Now he works for the PUSH, a sport technology company that designs performance monitoring tools. He says that now that he has […]
Connected fitness company Skulpt offers a unique way to measure health and fitness. Athletes and everyday people can use a small, handheld body scanner device along with a mobile app to receive customized workouts and nutrition plans based on specific measurements of their muscle quality and body fat. For Skulpt users, Muscle Quality is the rating […]
When you move to a new city and leave your favorite personal trainer behind, it’s hard to get back in a workout routine. Handstand, a mobile app that connects users with at-home and in-gym fitness trainers, aims to help with that process. The app has been called the “Uber of fitness trainers.” On Tuesday, Handstand […]
The trusty stationary bike is probably the most ubiquitous fitness device found in homes and gyms across the world. From its early conception by Francis Lowndes in 1796 (called the “Gymnasticon”), to Schwinn releasing its first stationary bike for the home, the Exerciser, in 1965, minor tweaks have been made to improve it. Yet much […]
