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What is BIB? The effect of BIB technology device in marathons
When participating in a marathon, every athlete must have BIB in order to compete. So what is BIB?
In any contest, semester exam, graduation exam, university exam, … the registration number is necessary and important to confirm the candidate’s identity and recognition of contest results. For marathons, that number is bib.
In professional tournaments, to ensure fairness and accuracy, each athlete’s bib can be equipped with a positioning chip to track and measure running distance.
The effect of BIB
Before each marathon, each person will receive a separate bib, no one like whom to wear during the race. If an athlete doesn’t have a bib then the track result is not recognized. If the person who is first can not accept the award.
Bib is also used as a sign for the organizers to identify and classify the competition distance based on the color or number printed on the shirt.
For example, in a running competition, there are 5km, 21km and 42km distances. The organizers can use yellow bib only 5km distance, red only 21km distance and 42km white only distance or can also print 5K (5km), 21K (21km) and 42K (42km).
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Bib can be considered as the most important thing for an athlete when participating in marathons. In addition to bib, if you are about to participate in a running competition you should also pay attention to preparing electrolyte salts, energy gels, blistering creams, sports watches, etc.
I myself have participated in a few marathons, in general, taking this bid is quite simple and nothing complicated, when you receive you just bring the basic information that the prescribed run, usually only ID card only.
So you already know what BIB is, right? In addition, if there are other terms related to marathon that you still do not know, you can leave your comment below. I will soon have the answer article as soon as possible.
Smart technology applications will drive fitness trends in 2020
In 2020, it is predicted that five gymers do not like to go to the gym anymore but apply online technology to practice at home. Here are the fitness trends that are expected to attract interest in 2019, according to Healthline.
Practice at home
Physical training is no longer restricted to the gym. Home exercise is expected to become popular during the new year. You can build a gym in your own home by using streaming technology. Technology applications allow you to keep track of classes taking place elsewhere, saving you a lot of time and money.
Short exercises
Science has proven that no exercise is too short, every minute of movement can be effective. Repeating a 10-minute workout three times has the same benefits as exercising for 30 minutes in a row. High intensity exercise, also known as HIIT, is also in this trend.
High intensity exercise produces the same and sometimes better results than long-term exercise because your heart rate will then increase and help burn more calories. The New Year trend will focus heavily on combining HIIT with exercises like yoga, stretching, zumba and pilates.
Boxing
Martial arts such as boxing are expected to attract a large number of participants in the new year. Boxing is a great way to train at high intensity, while giving you the feeling of excitement as a warrior. People who participate in this sport often feel more fulfilled when they train through combat movements.
Technology applications
Sports equipment will become smarter in 2019. Smart treadmill and other fitness devices are also equipped with streaming.
These smart apps let you cycle and track progress on your tablet. The screen will display images of hills or other obstacles to simulate training intensity. In addition, you can connect and compete with other users.
The smart tracking device
Personal tracking devices like Apple Watch or Fitbit will continue to be widely used in 2019.Accuracy plays a key role. Users want to track calories burned, heart rate, sleep duration, intensity and duration of exercise.
Relax
We often just focus on physical exercise but forget about relaxation so that the body can recover after vigorous exercise. Taking time to massage and relax muscles plays a major role in muscle growth as well as overall health. This year’s relaxation trends focus on meditation, self-care habits and breathing techniques.
VR technology helps athletes train more effectively than usual
Training with equipment, simulation technology is not new. Before being able to experience reality, pilots or astronauts must practice hundreds, even thousands of hours with devices, simulation technology 3D, VR (Virtual Reality) or AR (Reality) Virtual enhancement). This is an extremely important factor that enables them to hone and hone their skills before “real battle”.
Today, virtual reality technology is also widely and widely used in many different fields, such as surgery or fire. It can be said that VR is really a great solution, helping students to practice their skills and flexibility before applying it to real life.
It is feasible to apply VR to sports practice plans. However, the reality shows that all these ideas are still on paper or have been tested to apply VR to practice but the results are extremely scarce.
In a recent study published in the prestigious scientific journal PLOS One called “Getting your game on: Using virtual reality to improve real table tennis skills” (roughly translated: Conquer your game: Using Technology Virtual reality to improve table tennis skills ”), a team of researchers from the University of South Australia showed the effect of training with virtual reality technology that can help athletes hone practical skills. .
VR technology has shown positive results in table tennis
Many concerns are raised as to whether the forged skills in the VR environment can be applied to reality, where the skills become much more “universal.” Besides, the training skills in VR environment still retain the speed and serenity when applied in real life.
To counter these concerns, Mr. Stefan Carlo Michalski and members of the research team opened an experiment. Accordingly, a group of amateur table tennis players wearing virtual reality devices HTC Vive installed Eleven: Table Tennis VR virtual reality software developed by Fun Labs.
The total points the player receives will be calculated from the results of each completed task, including backhand, forehand and interstitial (after a forehand stroke will be a backhand shot or vice versa. Meanwhile, another group of table tennis players will also have to go through the same challenges, but in real life.
After a period of research, Mr. Stefan and his colleagues obtained surprising results. Athletes using VR equipment (test group) performed better than the other group (control group) despite the athletes not using VR equipment also showed some improvement.
The “Magic ball” that helps you have a fit body with only 4 minutes/day
Shaped like a ball, Monkii 360 is promoted as an effective workout tool for busy people, helping you improve endurance but only takes 4 minutes/day to practice.
At the present time, Monkii 360 is “causing fever” on the Kickstarter fund raising platform when it has raised the amount of support up to more than 900,000 USD, 16 times more than the original target that the two “founding fathers” of This product, Dan Vinson and David Hunt set out.
Monkii 360 is attracting more than 900,000 USD
By providing short, high-intensity exercises, combined with the same-name application that is easily installed on smartphones, Monkii 360 helps trainees improve fitness, regulate cardiovascular, lose weight, improve muscle area. corn core and body balance.
No need to go to the gym, all you have to do before practicing is hanging a Monkii 360 ball on the door with a bungee elastic cord. A total of 8 different bungee strings, depending on the type of exercise you are doing. Even in some exercises, the Monkii 360 is used but an extremely effective foam roller.
A total of 8 different bungee strings based on the difficulty of the exercises
If you want to add weight to the Monkii 360, you can insert 1 of 5 dumbbells inside the ball. Each weight is different and is classified according to the level and level of exercise you are performing, including 2 weights for beginners (Beginner), 2 weights for exercises higher difficulty (Intermediate) and 1 dumbbell for high difficulty exercises (Insane).
Practitioners can fit 1 of 5 different weights into the Monkii 360 to gain weight
In particular, the practitioner can store all these devices inside the Monkii 360 ball after the training is completed. This convenience helps Monkii 360 receive trust from users, can be carried anytime, anywhere without encountering any difficulties.
All tools can be stored in Monkii 360 easily
Most of the exercises with Monkii 360 are based on the “Tabata Protocol”, ie each exercise 4 minutes divided into 8 sessions, each session for 20 seconds with extreme intensity, then rest for 10 seconds and repeat. With the Monkii 360 exercises guided on the app of the same name, practitioners can reach an average intensity of 170% of maximum oxygen consumption (VO2max).
Swim and track your heart rate with FORM and POLAR technology glasses
Swim Goggles with POLAR OH1 or OH1 + technology will come on the market in November this year.
The leading technology corporation in the field of manufacturing swimming goggles, FORM, continues to deploy a cooperation relationship with health monitoring brand from Finland, POLAR.
Specifically, since November, FORM Swim Goggles with the famous augmented-reality technology will integrate with POLAR OH1 and OH1 + heart rate monitors via 1 Free software created by FORM.
Under the commitment of these two leading technology corporations in the world, this is a “masterpiece” that reaches the perfect level of accuracy and efficiency, bringing an extremely new experience to the fishermen.
Using the FORM Swim Goggles with POLAR OH1 or OH1 + technology, swimmers can track their heart rate right on the “green track”, assess the level of effort in each specific point of time that no other technology device has been able to do before.
The POLAR OH1 / OH1 + device will be mounted on the FORM Swim Goggles (user temple), using 6 optical LED sensors and proprietary algorithms to monitor and analyze heart rate. After that, the parameters analyzed by OH1 / OH1 + will be transmitted to FORM Swim Goggles, helping users to know their own heart rate.
The POLAR OH1 / OH1 + device uses 6 optical LED sensors and proprietary algorithms to monitor and analyze heart rate.
After the swimmer completes each swim, parameters such as the number of hand fans, the time to complete a lap, the swimming speed after every 100m, the calories consumed at each viewpoint will be synchronized into the FORM application.
Swim App on Android and iPhone operating systems. This will help the coaches and the athletes themselves can adjust the method, lesson plan and play effectively.
In addition to the cooperation between FORM and POLAR, 2019 also saw the introduction of quite a lot of technological equipment for swimmers, including the FORM HUD goggles, Roka’s swim / running goggles. or the heart rate monitor on Instabeat’s swim goggles.