Category: Fitness
The Virtualized Club: Transcending the Four Wa...
21-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Note: This series has been updated to add a 5th part, which covers working out at work. These articles are written as an idea takes form, so as I write subsequent articles, things occur to me that I go back and address. Partly, this is thinking out loud as an idea evolves. Also note that
Read MoreVisualization: Run Mapping & Self Gamific...
11-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Run Mapping allows you to track all of your runs on a map and make a game out of it! Visualization is a great motivator! I discuss several methods of visualizing your runs in this article.
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Modularity and Architecture- The Importance of ...
1-April-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Products designed with modularity and architecture in mind are inherintly more flexible, customizable and adaptable to future changes in technology and markets.
Read MoreTracking your Runs
23-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
An overview of my three, favorite running apps- FITIV Pulse, Strava and MapMyRun. Each one has its strength, so I run with all three at once.
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The Connected Gym: Exploring the Benefits
9-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
The concept of a fully Connected Gym was set up in incremental stages from the easiest to the more complex. Tier 1 explained just setting up automated check-in, which also gives you check out. It can integrate with your existing system. In addition, if there is a wearable component, the act of checking in and
Read MoreThe Connected Gym: Tier 3- Sensor Fusion
24-February-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
In the previous articles Connected Gym, Part 1 and Part 2, we examined how to outfit your club with a system to allow automatic capture of workouts in the club using a smart watch and beacons. Part 1 described a minimum setup that has a clear set of benefits. Part 2 expanded that across the
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The Connected Gym: Tier 2- Adding Beacons
15-February-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Part 2 of the Connected Gym series. Once you've got automated check-in, the next step is to expand the solution and cover the club. The benefit is a wealth of new analytical data to make your club more efficient and identify new sources of revenue, and most easily identify upsells.
Read MoreBecoming A Runner
16-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
From being the worst athlete in the world to loving running. How I turned something I hated into something I love.
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Quantified Self: How I Finally Made Fitness Wo...
6-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
For most of my life Fitness has evaded me. I was skinny in high school and even on Swim Team for a year, but I was not athletic. I didn’t like Phys Ed, it was not engaging for me. After College, slowly the weight came on. I made efforts off and on to control it,
Read MoreThe Connected Gym: Tier 1- Automated Check-in ...
2-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Advanced Technology in your Fitness Club. How to implement a Digital Doorway to your gym's Immersive Fitness space.
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