Edited by Katie Barnes. Email:
katiebarnes@leisuremedia.com LIGHTWEIGHTS
HI-TECH MAT GIVES EXERCISE ADVICE
A new exercise mat with sensors and LED lights can recognise movement patterns and guide users through different types of workouts. The Tera mat, which is still in its concept stage, has
been thought up by design fi rm Lunar. It syncs with an app that takes users through exercise routines – such as yoga, pilates, Zumba and Thai bo – of varying diffi culty. Meanwhile embedded sensors can detect the position of the user, as well as the pressure as they shift body weight. If the user makes a wrong move, the LED lights will illuminate to show the correct position. The data is fed back to the app, so it can analyse
the user’s performance as well as logging their progress. Information can also be shared with a personal trainer across different social media networks. The woollen mat has been designed as
a piece of exercise equipment that blends in with home surroundings. Details:
www.lunar.com
RAVE YOUR WAY INTO EARLY MORNING FITNESS
A freestyle rave session to a DJ in a London club. Sounds like a night of fun. But actually it’s a fitness workout that sees people from all walks of life busting their moves to techno tunes at 6.30am, to lose calories before they start the day. Morning Gloryville was created
by events producer Samantha Moyo and therapist Nico Thoemmes just over a year ago. It started as a pop- up concept, but classes are now available in eight other countries. Attendees can also get a sports
massage to awaken their muscles and a smoothie or coffee. Details:
www.morningglorylondon.co.uk
Car mechanics are the most physically active professionals, exercising an average of 4.4 days a week, according to a survey by the British Heart Foundation based on 2,000 UK workers. Although 78 per cent of bankers
admitted they spent the majority of their working day sitting at a desk, they still came in the top 10 of the most active professionals, exercising an average of 3.38 times a week.
Mechanics are the fi ttest workers People in leisure and tourism were
the second most active group, working out 4.1 days a week, followed by PRs and marketers. Those in nursing, and hairdressing and beauty, came in 10th – both groups took part in physical activity 3.2 times a week. The top three motivators for exercising were to improve physical fi tness (60 per cent), to live a healthier lifestyle (55 per cent), and to lose weight (46 per cent).
90 Read Health Club Management online at
healthclubmanagement.co.uk/digital
FOOD TASTES DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON CUTLERY
The colour, weight, shape and size of knives and forks has a direct impact on how we taste food, according to researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK. Their fi ndings, published in the journal
Flavour, showed that when people eat white yoghurt with a white spoon they think it tastes nicer, sweeter and more expensive than pink yoghurt, yet when eaten with a black spoon the pink yoghurt comes out on top. It was found that the shape and size of
cutlery also affects our perceptions. People believed the same type of cheese tasted saltier when they ate it with a knife, compared to eating it from a fork, spoon or toothpick.
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