Central Florida's Premier Yoga Studio
healingways yogamatrixstudio
The Bionic COACH
High-Tech Boosts Healthy Routines
by Linda Sechrist
Edely L.Wallace BA, CYT, E-RYT Owner/Director
28 Years of Teaching Experience Former Executive Board Member Yoga Alliance Lymphatic Yoga
Workshop/YTT Pyrenees Mountains in France June 30 – July 8, 2014
Thinking of becoming a
500HR Yoga Teacher? Come learn with the highly-sought Yoga Teacher Training in Central Florida! Yoga Alliance Registered School
Advanced Weeklong Level 1 July 28-August 1, 2014
Flexibility Class Wednesdays at 6:00-7:00pm
Hip & Back
Learn postures that gradually solve hip tightness, knee problems and back conditions helping you become more flexible and happy.
Drop Ins Welcomed 407-354-0909 407-354-0909
7601 Della Drive, Suite 5 Orlando, FL 32819
www.yogamatrixstudio.com www.yogamatrixstudio.com W
hen President John F. Kennedy said in 1961 that the U.S. should commit to
sending a man to the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade, few suspected the bounty of technological spinoffs that such National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space missions would yield. Today, many of NASA’s research advancements, as well as technologies developed outside the space program, are put to good use in everyday life. Of particular interest are products used in fi tness workouts. ABI Research, a technology market intelligence company, revealed the growing popularity of consumer health and wellness technologies in its latest market projections for wearable, health- related devices. Estimates are that 80 million wearable monitoring devices, including heart monitors and biosensors that read body temperature and motion, will be sold by 2016.
When Clint, a global market research
fi rm, conducted its most recent Fitness and Technology Survey, its fi ndings showed technology at work. Based on 745 online interviews with people in seven countries, 72 percent of exercisers embraced some type of technology, including smartphone apps, to support their fi tness routines two or more times a week. In recent years, amateur and professional athletes have increasingly
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benefi ted from technological advances that help them chart, improve upon and customize their fi tness routines. Tracking fi tness progress and weight loss is now just clicks away with personal devices such as a Wi-Fi scale, which accurately measures weight, body fat percentage and body mass index. Online graphs chart the individual’s progress.
While the typical setting for measuring blood pressure and heart rate used to be in a physician’s offi ce, hospital or pharmacy, new digital wrist blood pressure and heart monitors now allow exercise enthusiasts to do it themselves, wherever they are, helping ensure they are not exceeding the safety parameters of their fi tness programs. User-friendly digital pocket pedometers and wireless activity-during-sleep wristbands both work in conjunction with a downloaded app to allow self- monitoring. Exercisers can track steps; distances walked cycled or swum; calories burned; total active minutes; and how long and how well they sleep. In some U.S. fi tness centers, members have an option of working with an automated, virtual, personal trainer. This almost-do-it-yourself approach to professionally guided fi tness begins with a survey of an individual’s lifestyle and goals to create a personalized fi tness regimen. Each time exercisers go to the center, they
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