Technology can provide excellent motivation to achieve those New Year's fitness resolutions, whether you want to compete with yourself or someone else.
Digitally measured progress is the future of fitness. But only a handful of gyms and fitness facilities have decided to get ahead of the trend by integrating digital body tracking. One of them is Flywheel Sports, a newly opened spin studio in the Prudential Center, where stationary bikes are attached to small computers that feed information to two large leader boards at the front of the spin studio. The leader boards, or as Flywheel has dubbed them, "Torqboards," display the cumulative and current progress of members in the form of rankings.
There's something to be said for the competitive motivation that comes from seeing your rank rise and fall throughout the class and during periodic "races" that instructors launch during the classes. If you're not particularly competitive, you don't have to make your metrics public. You can log onto the Flywheel website to see your personal performance metrics at any time.
Frank Nash Training Systems, a fitness club in Worcester, also offers a form of digitally enabled competition — television screens that broadcast the progress of members who choose to wear belts that monitor heart rates and calories burned.
If you prefer privacy during a workout, I can't say enough about Xbox Fitness, the new online service built for the recently released Xbox One media and gaming console. With a seemingly boundless library of instructional videos from famous trainers such as Jillian Michaels, Insanity's "Shaun T" and Tracy Anderson, the console gets to know you and your workout style over time, delivering personalized recommendations, monthly progress stats and always encouraging you to beat your personal record.
The Kinect motion sensor allows those programs to monitor your heart rate wirelessly, determine which muscles are being used the most and track your speed and form.
Workouts span a variety of genres, from cardio programs focused on Zumba or mixed martial arts, to shorter duration options that isolate your abs or upper body. With all these programs, the Xbox will provide encouragement ("jump higher!") and positive reinforcement when you reach milestones (either by flashing "awesome!" across the screen or awarding virtual "achievements"). Xbox fitness comes with the Xbox Gold membership, which, at $60 a year, is far less than any gym membership I've encountered.
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