Networked Gym Equipment Keeps Tabs On Your Workouts April 16, 2007
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Mitsubishi, Citizen, Sharp, Hitachi and Tanita are working together to create networked exercise equipment, which would track your progress across multiple machines and over time, giving you a detailed report of your time at the gym to go along with your anecdote about that dude who never wipes his sweat off the butterfly machine.
It's an interesting idea, and one that hardcore gym rats are sure to jump all over. It's also something that people with health conditions will probably use to give their doctors more info on just what happens to them when they're physically exerting themselves. Look for the project to pay off sometime next year, at least in Japan, with the results presumably making their way over to the US eventually. –Adam Frucci
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This would be good if it could link up to a pocket pc and all machines in the gym had some sort of connector (cf?) which you plugegd in and it tracked all your workout.
My gym already does this...
I have a wireless membership card that links to each machine when i log into it and I can view my stats over the internet. I set a plan i.e. look good naked, and it tells me what exercises I need to do to or how many reps I need to do to achieve this. Its like a virtual trainer and its pretty cool.