The advantages and disadvantages of "home fitness" have been discussed too much, but if you have been holding the "Since it is called "Fitness Ring Adventure", why not move the ring yourself?" The mentality, the conclusion is always "opinionated".
At home, "one acre and three points of land" can achieve 80% of my fitness needs 丨 Author courtesy of the picture
For more than two years, due to the force majeure of the epidemic, I have only been able to work out at home. But I would like to say that if you are not "socially afraid", asking for a personal trainer is still an irreplaceable way of fitness, because your problems can be corrected as quickly as possible.
As a fitness enthusiast who is still in the process of progressing, I have also taken some detours. The overly rich choices on the market have made me "hungry and hungry", yesterday "Pamela", today "Liu Qihong". The anxiety caused by the inability to concentrate makes me unable to enjoy the pleasure of the process, paying too much attention to the "input-output ratio", and even using some "AI-based" products to do body analysis and calorie intake calculations, and thus repeatedly.
These lessons of blood and tears at least kept me sane at the beginning of the epidemic when the concept of home fitness was preached. Most of the routines of home fitness equipment are similar, focusing on hardware + content + community. But what I don't understand is, why should I spend two more dollars to put together my existing bike and iPad?
Fitness is the process of understanding your body. It took me two years to "reconcile" with my body.
Treadmills, bicycles? Too chicken ribs; fitness mirrors? Not as good as chicken ribs
I think the important reason why treadmills and bicycles are "chicken ribs" is that they can only be used to make aerobics. Aerobic exercise is easy to achieve and does not require additional equipment purchases. I would rather do aerobic + strength training to train muscle lines. I bought a Tonal that looked like a big screen and two robotic arms — something I later discovered wasn't anything like a gym mirror.
I know that my weaknesses are insufficient core strength (poor coordination) and weak upper arm strength. So I chose a separate course specifically for the shoulder and back pectoral muscles interspersed with full-body exercises. Over the course of a month, the weight of each hand increased from 8 pounds to 14 pounds, and the bench press increased from 20 pounds to 32 pounds.
In total, two robotic arms can produce 200 pounds (91 kilograms) of pull丨 Courtesy of the author
The last group of bench presses is usually "fatal", at this time, if I am in the gym, my self-esteem will be awkwardly suspended in mid-air, and I can't go up and down. Tonal will monitor that "stay too long, fight for your life" and automatically reduce some weight.
This automatic adjustment of the weight is smart in my opinion. For example, if you do a hard pull, the weight of the pull is 100 pounds, and the weight of the release is reduced to 80 pounds, just like a personal trainer who can assist the unloading of force around, and I will reasonably exhaust my strength without getting hurt. Every time I sighed, "Technology allows me to use every power on a little!" ”
And, every time I want to be lazy, I get caught by it. For example, when I do hard pulling, I am unstable and unstable, and the tow rope will also swing with it, at which time the screen will prompt me to "tighten the core"; when I do lean over to row, I unconsciously speed up the speed, the machine knows that I am "paddling" through the speed and length of the tow rope, and it will prompt "pay attention to breathing, when pulling up, the upper arm is clamped close to the back of the body, and slowly lowered." ”
Video coach guidance 丨 Author courtesy of the picture
There will be a real-time motion curve on the screen, and if each action can be full and standardized, it can fit the "perfect curve". If you practice with both hands on both sides, you can intuitively see which side lacks strength.
My exercise is all digitally recorded. Before each exercise, there is no need to spend time setting the weight of each movement. If the machine judges me to be "in easy shape," it will increase the amount in 1 pound at the most intense place. Unconsciously, but gradually breaking through my ceiling. My hard pull limit was originally 63 pounds, and now my grinning teeth can pull up 97 pounds. (The point is, when I grin my teeth, I don't get seen either.) ）
Slightly avoided some social embarrassment 丨 author courtesy of the picture
After two years, I can finally do it... A standard push-up – it's a qualitative leap for me.
Reconcile with your own figure
If you go to the offline gym, in addition to accommodating the time of the coach, you must also freshen up, dress up, concave style... If you are unlucky, you will encounter another rainy day. Anyway, you can find a lot of excuses for "self-consolation". However, now at eight o'clock in the evening, my friend and I are "online" on time.
The image of fitness bloggers on social media is very solidified, which will aggravate the anxiety of ordinary people. Once, we chose a slightly fat female coach, she kept telling us that we don't have to be "body shame", eat buffets to let go, in the past I thought that fitness is almost harsh on the body.
Sometimes I wonder why people are caught up in "self-discipline anxiety" when it's easy to maintain fitness through positive motivation. Unable to find an effective "positive incentive" for ourselves, we are more attached to external forces, thinking that the so-called equipment and applications that are blessed by a large number of science and technology must be effective.
Perhaps people's expectations of fitness equipment are wrong in the first place, focusing too much on how smart it is, rather than the functionality of the device itself and whether the content provided is of high quality. The biggest gimmick of a class of fitness mirrors is the "standard for AI to monitor actions", whether in China or North America, the "wind" of fitness mirrors is very strong.
"Inaccurate recognition" is often the reason why we think of fitness mirrors as chicken ribs. Most camera recognition has built-in 2D human posture estimation algorithms (such as OpenPose), which achieve posture estimation of human body movements by obtaining the coordinates of joints.
OpenPose丨CSDN@AI swordsman
In practice, specific problems will emerge. If the joints are obscured (such as the exerciser holding a dumbbell), the error will be recognized, so the general fitness mirror course is more frontal and unarmed.
The effect is limited by technology, and the cart before the horse is reversed.
Tonal also has a camera, but does not enable the image provided by the author
The algorithm simply obtains the coordinates of the joint, for example, whether the pelvis remains neutral is something that a machine cannot determine based on the joint position. Even if recognized, can the user learn to adjust the pelvic leaning forward and backward from a voice prompt, so as to find a correct posture? It's hard for most people.
I once asked Tonal about how Tonal realized the need for "intelligent corrective fitness movements". They replied to me, "By the sensor on the robotic arm gripper, not by the camera." Obviously, Tonal, a device that gives fitness advice based on electromagnetic resistance, can't do the above. The so-called electromagnetic resistance is that when training with Tonal, you pull not the physical weight, but the "digital weight", at least to ensure safety.
A lot of lower limb training can also meet the picture provided by the author
Almost all of the fitness products on the market are based on the fact that the user is "non-white", giving tips and suggestions, rather than teaching suggestions. I think that fitness equipment can not cross the domain from "Nokia" to "iPhone", and it should be more functional and reduce people's unrealistic expectations for "smart fitness".
Unfortunately, after practicing for so long, I still can't have a "peach buttocks", but the problem of sunken side buttocks has improved visibly; once I eat more, the vest line is gone. But I at least learned to "prescribe the right medicine" and do appropriate and moderate exercise according to the physical condition of the day. If you are in a good state, you will have an aerobic on an empty stomach; you will fall on the pillow and do a stretching yoga; if you don't work well, meditate for ten minutes...
Living room seconds change yoga studio 丨 author courtesy of the picture
The best state of fitness is probably not "calculating"!
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Editor: Shen Zhihan
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