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Share Sten and I would like to thank all the beta testers who took the time to evaluate the latest fitness tester for iOS devices. You may recall we had a call-out for the iPhone, iPad and iPod FitnessMeter: Beta Testers Wanted. The company, Appmaker, also makes the iPhone sprintTimer – Photo Finish & Race [...]
Share I love determining 10 meter splits to calculate maximum velocity and the amount of degradation over the final parts of the race. Can the adidas miCoach Speed_Cell record 10 meter Splits? With the popularity of Garmin watches for distance runners, it’s no wonder we are now seeing this technology for speed events, and not [...]
Share Coaches and Athletes, If you remember the iPhone sprintTimer – Photo Finish & Race Timing last May, you’ll be glad to hear some more iPhone, iPad and iPod apps coming your way. (We’ve seen an iPhone ECG App and iPhone Starter Pistol too) fitnessMeter fitnessMeter is a tool for measuring different fitness tests like [...]
Share If you follow this blog regularly, you’ll know I was a crew member at the Lake Tahoe Triple Marathon, as well as I stopped by the ESPN 1280AM studios for a segment on ethical cheating. There were more visits in California, the land of milk and honey… Behind the scenes of SpeedEndurance, I also [...]
Share sprintTimer – Introducing Photo Finish and Race Timing for iPhone Summary The sprintTimer 1.0 for iPhone 4 and 3Gs photo finish app employs the same techniques used in the Olympics. Simply start the timer and point the camera towards the finish line. sprintTimer will build an image of narrow slices of the finish line, [...]
Share When I was attending McGill University as an Undergrad, I used to record all my lectures with a tape recorder. (Hey, this was 1982!) I used a Radio Shack (now called The Source) device to slow down up to 0.5X speed to transcribe the lectures word-for-word for my Note taking club. There were 12 [...]
Share adidas brings personal coaching to Android at the Mobile World Congress The adidas miCoach app for Android is being presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week in conjunction with Google. The new miCoach app for Android provides a whole new group of smart phone users with the chance to use this [...]
Share NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) and TomTom (AEX: TOM2) have collaborated to create the Nike+ SportWatch GPS Powered by TomTom. The new running watch, unveiled today at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, will provide athletes with the most dynamic and motivational running experience in the world thanks to its unique functionality, beautiful design, and direct [...]
Share Dear Readers, I don’t plan on posting every single iPhone Apps out there just because last month I posted the iPhone Pistol App. Normally I use the SpeedEndurance FaceBook Fan Page to post a short daily snippet, usually a link to another web site or an interesting video for a coach or athlete. It [...]
Share As an exercise physiologist, there are things you can measure and analyze. For starters, there’s height, weight, body fat and lean body mass. For metrics, there’s the good old fashion stop watch and tape measure. And high speed film analysis. If you don’t own a HD HQ video camera, they have gone down dramatically [...]
Share After all the hard training and countless hours of drills to perfect your running technique, the difference between winning and losing may come down to the difference in the food you eat and TECHNOLOGY. Namely, your track spikes and the clothes you wear. First, we had had the sprinter’s full body suits for aerodynamics. [...]
Share . . . Canon VIXIA HV40 HD HDV Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom Canon VIXIA HG21 AVCHD 120 GB HDD Camcorder with 12x Optical Zoom Canon VIXIA HF S21 HD Dual Flash Memory Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom Canon VIXIA HF S200 HD Flash Memory Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom Prosumer Digital Video Camera [...]
Share Yesterday’s article on Armin Hary and other “False start incidents” prompted a more in depth look at the 0.100 second (or 100 milliseconds) reaction time rule. The 0.100 number is based on an assumed minimum auditory reaction time, based on the average 0.132 seconds. The IAAF commissioned the Neuromuscular Research Center (Department of the [...]
Share If you haven’t heard of iDashboards, you’ve probably seen their dashboards at many other applications. Now iDashboards has another Olympic gift for you: The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Real Time Updates Mouse over your home country, and you can see the entire stats of medal counts and the names of the medalists. Historical data [...]
Share One of my most common requests for SpeedEndurance is the readability and speed for mobile devices, such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry Storm, and Android. The home page looks more like a newspaper or magazine. Based on tests, it’s now at least 3 times faster. The site is already enabled for the hearing [...]
Share A big thank you to Ken Stone of MastersTrack.com for pointing this out to me. I love it when Science & Technology meets Track & Field. The High Jump Resource Center belongs to Todd Acheson, a two-time NCAA DIV II All-American in the High Jump. I discussed Baseball’s circular path when rounding the bases, [...]
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Photographing Track and Field Athletics
Share Photographing Track and Field athletes or any action sport is tricky. You can take hundreds or thousands of photos and only come up with a handful of decent shots. IF you are lucky. Life Magazine’s George Silk is a name that comes to my mind first back in the days of film and print. [...]