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They monitor sleep quality, count calories, analyze data, and even entertain. WDay.ru talks about six new, amazing fitness gadgets that will help you fall in love with workouts and get in great shape.
EA Sports Active 2
If you are too bored to do the usual exercise complexes, rejoice: in a few months the EA Sports Active 2 sports simulator will appear in stores. The new version of the game will include more than 70 exercises and other fitness pleasures of life, including classes with a personal, albeit virtual, trainer. as well as its own basketball court.
Special sensors attached to the leg and arm will help monitor the size of the load and your shape, and you can find out about the state of your heart rate just by looking at the monitor! EA Sports Active 2 works with Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation3, iPhone and iPod touch.
Price: about $ 100.
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Arriva Leo headphones
Do not waste precious time during your morning run untangling hated wires. The technology of operation of this gadget is very simple: using Bluetooth, you can synchronize the headphones with your player or phone, put the player in your pocket and go in for sports.
There are three sizes of these wireless earbuds to ensure that your device fits snugly around your ears while running – be careful when buying.
Price: about $ 100.
Garmin Edge 500
This is a good friend of inveterate cyclists – a gadget that, while driving, displays data on speed, distance, time, elevation of hills and calories burned.
The Garmin Edge 500 attaches easily to your bike handlebars. Starting a workout, you just need to turn on the device by activating the GPS sensors. All data is recorded and saved, so when you return home, you can connect your gadget to your computer and show off your achievements to your friends by posting training statistics on your blog.
Price: about $ 350.
Fitbit sleep meter
The motto of this thing the size of a finger could be: “Big Brother is watching you!” The Fitbit fitness gadget, which can be attached to your wrist or put in your pocket, is capable of monitoring you around the clock. How many calories did you burn in a day, whether you exercised enough, and how well you slept – for answers to these questions you need to turn to a tiny device.
However, there is no magic in this. For example, Fitbit monitors sleep quality like this: it determines the time when you went to bed and when you fell asleep, counts how many times you woke up during the night, monitors when you got up, and then issues a detailed report.
Price: about $ 100.
Withings WiFi Body Scale
Once the scales could only weigh, but now they are able to go online! Weighing on these scales, you do not need to memorize and write down your result somewhere. All data are processed by the scales themselves, after which they are sent to a server on the World Wide Web.
Price: about $ 160.
Finis Lap-Track
This is another device that can monitor the intensity of your workouts – this time in the pool. Attach a fitness gadget to the underwater part of the pool wall and it will calculate how many laps you have swam and how many calories you burned. Believe me, watching your statistics, you want to train again and again – after all, the result is clearly demonstrated to you!
Price: about $ 75.
Based on materials from Self.com.
Under the heading “Fitness” read also:
- Fitness laptop – what is it? Personal computer, scales, online dietitian – HP has partnered with Intel to develop a special laptop that helps you exercise and keep track of your figure!
- 5 myths about training in fitness clubs. Every year, new simulators appear and training directions are improved, but the misconceptions around fitness remain the same. WDay.ru debunks the most common fitness myths.
- Schedule of biorhythms for sports. To get the most out of sports, you need to train at a strictly defined hour. WDay.ru advises what time of day it makes sense to load your body.