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For this weeks blog, pretend I'm giving you $300 with which to buy TECHNOLOGY gifts. They can be for you or for someone else.
Here are the rules:
1. It must be TECHNOLOGY.
2. You must spend all $300, or as close to it as possible.
3. You must post links to your stuff (with prices) so we can all go look.
And don't bother to worry about shipping costs.
You may blog on Tuesday like we do for Think Geek. Please try not to suck the fun out of this for me.
Have a wonderful, RELAXING holiday season! See yall rested and ready to go in January.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Blog 12 - December 10, 2012
Continuing the Fitness Technology topic . . .
I think it's fun to talk about fitness technology, because of my aforementioned inner athlete who is struggling to get out. I'm sure some of you are over it already. Hopefully we'll hit a technology topic at some point that will peak your interest.
Hey . . . here's a question: Do you think all this technology makes us better at exercising? For me, it's makes me more EFFICIENT, but at the end of the day (don't you hate that term?) it's all about moving more and eating less. And no amount of technology in the world will make that happen if I choose to be a slug and sit in the corner of my couch eating like there's no tomorrow and watching Real Housewives reruns.
Not that I would ever do that . . .
So here are your sites for this week with up and coming exerice technology. For credit this week, you will have to do TWO things: 1) tell me your opinion about technology in exercise. Is it making us more fit and healthy? and 2) pick a product on one of the following pages (remember to tell us which one) that you would use and talk about it intelligently. Tell us how you would use it. Tell us why it's a great idea. Tell us why it's goofy. Tell us some facts about the product.
As always, read Tuesday blog Thursday. If you can't answer BOTH of my questions I can't possibly give you credit this week. Always READ MY WORDS and follow the instructions.
Talk to me . . .
http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/best-fitness-gadgets/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/technology/nike-fuelband-tracks-physical-activity-inconsistently.html
http://huntnewsnu.com/2012/06/northeastern-students-develop-new-exercise-technology/
http://www.powerplate.com/us/products/technology
I think it's fun to talk about fitness technology, because of my aforementioned inner athlete who is struggling to get out. I'm sure some of you are over it already. Hopefully we'll hit a technology topic at some point that will peak your interest.
Hey . . . here's a question: Do you think all this technology makes us better at exercising? For me, it's makes me more EFFICIENT, but at the end of the day (don't you hate that term?) it's all about moving more and eating less. And no amount of technology in the world will make that happen if I choose to be a slug and sit in the corner of my couch eating like there's no tomorrow and watching Real Housewives reruns.
Not that I would ever do that . . .
So here are your sites for this week with up and coming exerice technology. For credit this week, you will have to do TWO things: 1) tell me your opinion about technology in exercise. Is it making us more fit and healthy? and 2) pick a product on one of the following pages (remember to tell us which one) that you would use and talk about it intelligently. Tell us how you would use it. Tell us why it's a great idea. Tell us why it's goofy. Tell us some facts about the product.
As always, read Tuesday blog Thursday. If you can't answer BOTH of my questions I can't possibly give you credit this week. Always READ MY WORDS and follow the instructions.
Talk to me . . .
http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/best-fitness-gadgets/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/technology/nike-fuelband-tracks-physical-activity-inconsistently.html
http://huntnewsnu.com/2012/06/northeastern-students-develop-new-exercise-technology/
http://www.powerplate.com/us/products/technology
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Blog 11 - December 3, 2012
I have a confession.
I am an athlete. I know I don't look like a typical athlete, and most of the time don't act like one either. But just ask me something about my favorite hobby (triathlon) and I will launch off into a conversation that will having you begging for me to just SHUT UP FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY!
Many of my friends are also athletes, and they're all just as weird as I am. Well, almost as weird. We LOVE data. How far did we swim/bike/run? How fast were we? What was a Max speed? Average speed? Cadence (footstrikes per minute)? We chew data up and spit it back out. We analyze. We put numbers in Excel charts. We figure out what's not working and we fix it and gather some more data. In short, we're nutso.
Last year for Christmas Mr. L bought me a Garmin 910xt. It's a multisport computer that I wear on my wrist that records basically every stroke / pedal / step I take. And then it dumps the data in a program and let's me see all the results. Also? If I run the same route more than once it has a virtual racer feature where it lets me run against my previous time and shows it to me on with two little runners on a graph.
Man I love that thing.
So take a look at some of the data tools that I and my nutso friends use in our training. Read Tuesday, blog Thursday. For credit this week you will tell us which item you picked and how you would use it / why you think it's the coolest thing ever / why it's the stupidest thing ever invented.
My Garmin:
http://www.rei.com/product/829625/garmin-forerunner-910xt-gps-heart-rate-monitor
My cadence sensor:
http://www.rei.com/product/740260/garmin-gsc-10-speed-and-cadence-sensor
Garmin Connect features (the 910 sends it's data here):
http://connect.garmin.com/features
Training Peaks (the software my coach sends my workouts too):
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/products-web/trainingpeaks-athlete-edition.aspx
Somebody remind me here to pull up what my last week of training for the Oly looked like on TP (before I got injured).
Talk to me . . .
I am an athlete. I know I don't look like a typical athlete, and most of the time don't act like one either. But just ask me something about my favorite hobby (triathlon) and I will launch off into a conversation that will having you begging for me to just SHUT UP FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY!
Many of my friends are also athletes, and they're all just as weird as I am. Well, almost as weird. We LOVE data. How far did we swim/bike/run? How fast were we? What was a Max speed? Average speed? Cadence (footstrikes per minute)? We chew data up and spit it back out. We analyze. We put numbers in Excel charts. We figure out what's not working and we fix it and gather some more data. In short, we're nutso.
Last year for Christmas Mr. L bought me a Garmin 910xt. It's a multisport computer that I wear on my wrist that records basically every stroke / pedal / step I take. And then it dumps the data in a program and let's me see all the results. Also? If I run the same route more than once it has a virtual racer feature where it lets me run against my previous time and shows it to me on with two little runners on a graph.
Man I love that thing.
So take a look at some of the data tools that I and my nutso friends use in our training. Read Tuesday, blog Thursday. For credit this week you will tell us which item you picked and how you would use it / why you think it's the coolest thing ever / why it's the stupidest thing ever invented.
My Garmin:
http://www.rei.com/product/829625/garmin-forerunner-910xt-gps-heart-rate-monitor
My cadence sensor:
http://www.rei.com/product/740260/garmin-gsc-10-speed-and-cadence-sensor
Garmin Connect features (the 910 sends it's data here):
http://connect.garmin.com/features
Training Peaks (the software my coach sends my workouts too):
http://home.trainingpeaks.com/products-web/trainingpeaks-athlete-edition.aspx
Somebody remind me here to pull up what my last week of training for the Oly looked like on TP (before I got injured).
Talk to me . . .
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