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Training to Reach Peak Physical Performance

When it comes to achieving peak physical performance, nothing is more important than maximizing your training. In the past, this has been done by guess work and more professionally, by going through a series of intrusive tests to see where you peak and what exactly you should be working on while you train.

Now, however, using Zephyr Technology‘s Physiological Status Monitor (PSM), you can track your performance while you train and get loads of data including heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature, galvanic skin response, body position (upright vs. lying down), activity level (i.e., moving fast, moving slow, or stationary), and location. Pretty much everything you need to analyze and train for peak performance.

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Ready for the Most Intense Underwater Workout?

You know what’s a good workout? Running in the sand. You know what’s an even better workout? Running on a treadmill under water, and that’s exactly what Pyry Tamminen hopes to bring to consumers. Though functional models of his Pool Sprint have been made, Tamminen is hoping to attrach investors to take it to the next level.

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Underwater Base Jump at Dean’s Blue Hole

This awesome video, shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, shows champion freediver Guillaume Néry base jumping underwater at Dean’s Blue Hole. The sinkhole, located in the Bahamas, is the second deepest underwater sinkhole in the world at 663 feet to the ocean floor.

The video was shot by Julie Gautier who happens to also be a freediving champion from France. The video, while it looks like a single dive, was actually shot over four days. So far, no freediver has ever made it to the bottom of the ocean floor at Dean’s Blue Hole. Ten bucks for the first person that can do that… or do this.
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Monsterbike is Ultimate Penny-farthing Cycle

Sure you’ve seen the old penny-farthing cycles from years past, the ones with the large front wheel and the small rear one, but you’ve never seen one quite like the Monsterbike.

The makers of this cycle have created the ultimate mix of green transportation and the metal culture… which is a combination you don’t see often. It is able to ride in the bicycle lane even though the rider is at heights above most all other vehicles on the road. Pedestrians, as well as compact cars, will surely be running from your path when you ride this thing.

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Technology Developed for NFL Draft by New Orleans Saints

In this years NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints’ general manager, Mickey Loomis, employed a new technology to help him guide his final picks. The software he used called I.C.E. (an acronym for Interactive, Collaboration, and Evaluation) was developed for the Saints by a Microsoft partner company.

Basically, the software allows the Saints to gather tons of information, videos and pics of players and compress and compare it all, creating a large database of virtual “trading cards” that allowed Loomis to make informed decisions in a split second. The results were projected onto large walls and smaller screens so that every coach and executive could follow along in real time and view the list of the best available picks at any one time.

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New Rocket Racing League Takes Flight

If you remember playing Star Fox on Nintendo 64 then you will truly appreciate the RRL (Rocket Racing League). With a mix of high powered jets and augmented reality, Peter Diamandis is bringing an amazing new sport to the skies.

After 5 years in development, spectators were finally able to watch a preview at the Tulsa Airshow of what may be the best new sport to start in ages. The jets themselves are lightweight composite airplanes that use a liquid-oxygen rocket motor. On top of that, the pilots view a virtual course using augmented reality to compete against one another.

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Skydiver Attempts To Break Sound Barrier at 760 MPH

The first solo skydive a jumper makes, once they are Category 3 (non-tandem), is from 4,000 feet giving you about 10 seconds of free fall. One extreme Austrian man, Felix Baumgartner wants to jump from 120,000 feet and on top of that he wants to break the sound barrier, which would make him the first free faller to ever attain those speeds.

As a note, for a typical free fall a speed of 50% of terminal velocity is reached after only 3 seconds, after 8 seconds you’ll be at 90%, and to reach nearly 99% it takes 15 seconds. It is possible to attain higher speeds by reducing drag, pull in one’s limbs, or increasing the height of fall, reducing density and thus drag. Competition speed skydivers fly in the head down position and have reached speeds of 614 mph, the record held by Joseph Kittinger from a height of 102,600 feet.

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