Sites for jogging: Adidas miCoach

Articles about the healthy lifestyle and exercise is one of the main topics Layfhakera. And it's great because today the celebration of technology, this is exactly what is lacking for most people. Despite the fact that I mostly write notes about all sorts of browsers, programs and websites, I'm pretty actively engaged in physical exercise (they call it now "fitness":)), especially jogging. So I decided to combine these two of his passions, and write a few articles on the special web services that help athletes training in accounting and planning. The first article is dedicated to the service of the most famous, perhaps, the sports brand - Adidas.

Site adidas miCoachI was launched, if I'm not mistaken, in 2008 in a joint project with Samsung to create a Samsung SGH-F110 phone sports. I have used this product and, accordingly, associated service for about two years and thanks is this my jogging transformed from short-term "emotional outbursts" in regular training.

In general, the main principle of the work of all these services is approximately the same and is as follows. There is a kind of device that monitors the activity of the athlete during exercise, taking a number of indicators such as heart rate, mileage, time. Upon completion of training, all data sent web service, where they are processed and used to build statistics, make recommendations and so on. It serves as a powerful incentive to continue training and striving for new achievements, check for yourself.

To work with the miCoach service, you can use your phone F110 I mentioned, which, unfortunately, for a long time never sold as well as special equipment from Adidas - miCoach Pacer and miCoach Zone. In addition, it is much more interesting, there is a client program for mobile phones iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.

You must first complete the registration process on the site, during which you will be required in addition to the standard fields also indicate your age, height, weight. It is not idle curiosity - on the basis of the data, as well as a test of the race, a training plan will be created for you. Yes, the service miCoach provides us with a complete training plan and recommendations, which distinguishes it from a number of competitors who are limited to collecting statistics.

The first step after registering go to the section training plans and see what we offer. The choice here is rich - there are options for beginners, for men and women, high-speed, game types and many others.

After selecting the training we get to the next screen where you can set up a plan for themselves, that is, to indicate the beginning of the implementation, the number of workouts, set the days of the week to practice.

When you have finished setting your profile and training plan for the site, you need to synchronize data with your mobile device where you have already installed the appropriate advance mobile application. All, now you're ready to go to the track. But before that, let's digress for a moment and I'll tell you, what a workout via the miCoach.

miCoach training system is based on the concept of load zones. Each zone represents a certain level of load: blue - low load, green - the average load, yellow - and red high load - maximum load.

As you can see in the screenshot, the zone can be determined on the basis of two indicators - jogging pace and heart rate (more). Based on tracking of at least one of the control parameters occurs during workouts. Each workout consists of segments in several different areas, skillfully selected world-renowned sports organization Core Performance Adidas specialists and trainers. Here, for example, looks like a typical training session:

Before the beginning of races we've run on your mobile phone miCoach app and start running. The pace of the movement device is controlled and distributed in the appropriate moments pleasant female voice indicating, for example, "Accelerate to green zone" or "5 minutes in a blue zone ', and so on. In addition, voice messages appear in some key moments of training, for example, "Half of the training" or "By the end of 1 minute left." Thus, the system Adidas miCoach is a real pocket coach who is always there with you on track and give its guidance at the right moments. This system really works and promotes the achievement of all new results instead of dull jogging, similar to the hateful boring duty.

After graduating classes all race data is sent to the site, where the treatment and carefully retained to provide you with all kinds of statistical information on any aspect of your classes. display data types so much that it is possible to devote a separate article - that the rate of the graphics, time, distance, and bar charts for different time intervals, records, calendar and more more.

Despite the fact that I have already written a lot of letters left behind a lot of interesting features of service - this creating your own training plan, linking routes to the map, use the service for cycling and strength training, and more more. But with all of this you will be introduced independently, benefit Adidas miCoach excellent Russified and has excellent help system.

After a long period of active use miCoach system, I still have about it a positive experience. However, after the death of their "sports" phone I started to look for another service that works with Symbian devices. However, this in the next article in this series.

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