Tagged: Weight

Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyser 1

Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyzer review

I’ve said it plenty of times before, but I like gadgets and tech, and often use them to provide motivation as far as fitness and training is concerned. Be it a GPS enabled watch such as my Garmin 910XT, Virtual Power turbo training such as TrainerRoad or technical socks, I fall for them all and use...

Off-Season Hyper-gravity Training 2

Off-Season Hyper-gravity Training

Hyper-gravity Training? What’s that. Well, it’s just a silly term applied to training of any sort whilst carrying extra weight. The idea being that the extra weight and therefore extra work you are doing by carrying that weight whilst, running, cycling, or even doing household chores means that you burn more calories per hour whilst...

Fitness Improvements – Power to Weight Ratio 3

Fitness Improvements – Power to Weight Ratio

My recent lab tests with Jon at the Sports and Exercise Science Department are finally over. The tests themselves were hard, but nothing compared to the disgusting potions I had to drink beforehand – For that reason alone I’m glad that they are over! I met Jon yesterday for a quick synopsis of what he...

Web Dashboard 0

Your Life Online – Withings Scales

Within the pages of this weblog I often mention gadgets that bring together fitness and geekery. Heart rate monitors and GPS devices, fitness training software, Virtual Reality Turbo Trainers and such like. I like them. I like having such gadgets and I also extol the value of such devices. Not only do they allow me...