According to research, six out of 10 Italians cannot do without their smartphone while they train. Also because they use one or more applications. And it's just the beginning. The training that awaits us is totally hi-tech
(Photo: Pixabay) Fitness and technology: an increasingly inseparable combination. To confirm this, if needed, is a research by Urban
Sports Club, according to which six out of 10 Italians cannot do without their smartphone while they train. Apps that track physical activity, tutorial apps, apps that create personalized workouts: you are spoiled for choice. Again according to the research, 59% of Italians train using one or more apps and 23% of the sample does not disdain the use of increasingly sophisticated fitness trackers. In short, sporty, but also a lot of hi-tech. And the trend is growing.
Presented during a webinar with Massimiliano Ariani from Technology Walkers, Francesco Arlotti from Technogym, Cristina Bassoli from Nu3 and Filippo Santoro from Urban Sports Club, the search was also an opportunity to find out what awaits us at the crossroads between technology and fitness: how can bits help us to stay in shape in the next few years?
The trend for now it springs forth in the app that they are able to recognize our movements, using the camera of your smartphone. But there is also a more evolved level, as HitMotion: Reloaded , the first videogame fitness in augmented reality, which work a scan “ full-body “ of our body and transports it in a virtual environment, using glasses VR type, the HTC Vive. The game mechanism is quite easy: you move across the room, hitting droids and dodging their attacks in motion, and in this way exercise without getting bored. “Virtual reality is very important for the fitness and in the future will allow, for example, to free from the boredom of sitting in the bike ”, explains Massimiliano Ariani, game designer HitMotion . It is true that for now it is a fact niche, since viewers VR have not yet conquered the wider public, however, things are destined to change: "the Time two years and will trade the
Apple Glass , which may have many functions fitness, as it already happens to all
Apple products, from
Apple Watch to the AirPods," said Arians.
Fittech
Is the sector in which it is active Technogym , through the integration of apps and hi-tech gadgets with fitness machines, manufactured by the company, Cesena and spread in gyms all over the world. The basic idea is to allow users to live the fitness out of the gym . The various applications, in fact. help keep track of a wide range of data , including calories, distance, speed, floors climbed... Technogym has also patented the move, a unit of measurement that can identify all the physical activity that we practice in the sports centres and also in our daily activities. “Only 9% of italians attending a gym, " explains Arlotti – the technology will be increasingly important to engage in a project of well-being also all of the other”.
The gym spread
let's face It: the fans, the gym is not enough. There should be one for each sport that we practice , one for weekdays and one
for weekends. But how much would it cost? In reality, less than what is believed: the app Urban Sports Club , in the face of a subscription, provides access to courses and gyms all over Europe : in this way you can attend in the week the facilities under the office and the Saturday crossfit from the other side of the city. Not only that: in the days of the lockdown, the app has become a platform that offers fitness classes at a distance , by exploiting the video. “The emergency continues, Santoro – has only accelerated the change . The input of technology in fitness is inevitable. Already today, by exploiting an app you can have access to many different structures, and also in travel , and a mix of home fitness and gym workouts , always coordinated by an expert”.
