Athletic wearable devices are not anything new, but a new product launching today on Indiegogo has a different take from the myriad activity trackers out there: The SmartMio connected sports muscle stimulator is designed to bring so-called electronic muscle stimulation (EMS) to enthusiast and professional athletes in a small, convenient and smartphone powered package.
In professional sports, muscle injury often leads to significant pain and disability causing loss of training and competition time.
Several factors may affect this result such as motivation for return-to-sport, muscle strength, time and environment for rehabilitation.
10 In sports muscle power may be more related to functional performance than muscle strength, 11 and improvement in muscle power is important for enhancing athletic performance.
In endurance sports, muscles experience a different kind of stress, said Dr. Bengt Saltin, director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center at the University of Copenhagen.
Whereas, cons of sports may include "Sports makes me feel sweaty", "Sports causes muscle soreness" or "Sports is too time consuming".
Sporting less muscle and hardly any beads, Venus Williams returned to the scene of one of her most important victories today and made it clear that, despite her father Richard's suggestions to the contrary, she always intended to return to the game.
The young, local crowd — women decked out in midriff-bearing shirts, tattooed teenagers sporting Armani muscle shirts — was the sort that doesn't listen to ritmo and merely tolerates tumba; they come here for their kind of local music, which to my ears sounds a lot like a Curaçao version of reggaetón but is referred to locally as, simply, "urban music".
And so iTois for our bodies.
"I was more into sports cars, muscle cars," he said.
