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A new REALLY cool product to get your workout pumped: BodiBeat
By Christina | August 26, 2008
Aways in the quest for the coolest, most fun, gotta have it piece of workout equipment, I found this, the BodiBeat. Well actually the BodiBeat found me. I awoke this morning to find a link in an email to this product. At first I was not impressed but as soon as I read what it does, WOW, I was blown away.
The BODiBEAT is a combination MP3/ music player and heart rate monitor. That would be pretty cool right there but there is so much more than that. It actually synchronizes the songs played to the movement of your workout. I have blogged before on the music and workout intensity connection and this little device puts what I wrote into practice. Music actually intensifies your workout experience and studies show you will workout longer and harder with music playing.
You load your songs into BODiBEAT as you would any other similar type player. BODiBEAT selects and plays songs with beats per minute that match the steps per minute of the user’s workout. This unique song/ workout synchronization technology detects impact so it functions during activities such as running, walking, and dancing, but not bicycling.
Okay, Yamaha thought of the possibility that you might not be doing impact cardio all of the time so the standard MP3 and heart rate monitor are not affected by impact, they operate separately. Oh wait, it gets “cooler”, the heart rate monitor is a clip you put on your ear. No restrictive chest strap!
If any of my friends are reading, this would be a great holiday gift for me.
