USA Cycling gets a cognitive advantage
Since their last trip to the podium this spring, American cyclists in the Women’s Team Pursuit have been taking precious seconds off their times by training with an IBM Cloud cognitive solution.
Each team member’s anaerobic muscle capacity and wattage output is tracked in real time through sensors, along with cyclist sequencing and track locations. The program then analyzes the data to help them make game-changing pacing and switching decisions, and provides feedback to the riders’ eyewear.
It’s been one small part of USA Cycling’s performance improvement in 2016 – congrats!
Read the article:
http://www.dailydot.com/debug/usa-cycling-womens-pursuit-ibm-watson-sensors/
Solos & USA cycling - read the blog entry:
http://blog.solos-wearables.com/all-blogs/press-release-details/2016/USA-Cycling-Relying-on-High-Tech-Training-Tools-Ahead-of-Rio---ABC-News/default.aspx
#scitech #solos #IBM #USAcycling #wearables
Congrats indeed.
ReplyDeleteI belive the use of high tech in sport is the key to performance improvement, not drugs.
It was a close race this year, maybe gold next time. Though of course I would want the UK to retain the gold.
ReplyDeletePeople have been doing some DIY versions of this with google glass displaying Strava.com information for visually showing split times and lead times in breakaways. It's neat that it's getting big dollar attention. Be interesting if electronic shifting via bluetooth would allow you to set up an auto shift profile for a route.
ReplyDeleteSam Collett - UK won gold with a relatively low-tech (but scientific) solution...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/aug/15/team-gb-cycling-saddle-sore-medals
I wonder if runners can have the same kind of issue with friction from clothing?
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