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Picture 3: Polar M400 Heart Rate Watch (left) and H7 Heart Rate Belt (right)
(http://www.polar.com/)Applications in sporting goods
The result of high tech development lead people to have a sedentary lifestyle. Without enough physical
activities, the muscle strength digresses continuously. If there is no good eating habit, it would be easy to
have metabolic syndromes, that is, the modern diseases. Accordingly, this will increase the social cost of
the whole society. However, the occurrence rate can be significantly reduced if people change the way of
their living. This is the part which health management can work on. So-called living habits modification
include exercise and healthy eating. The regular exercise is what wearable sensor can assist. Based on the
electronic sensor results, the user can know if exercise is effective or not. Nowadays, it is much common
that exercise can improve health conditions, so not only athletes but also all the people keep doing
exercise regularly. However, for most of the public, how often they shall exercise, or how to do exercise
so as to achieve healthy condition, they are still the questions. Therefore, American College of Sports
Medicine (ACSM) and Interactive Health Partner (IHP) combined medical treatment, fitness evaluation,
sports prescription and professional counseling. It will also request the sports equipment and physical
activity monitors and health monitoring instruments inspected. It provides a platform to put all the
medical information of the users into the system. Meanwhile, the professionals prescribes the exercise
can be also stored. It allows the users to upload their real exercise records. Then the health management
experts can know all their latest physical conditions on the internet. In addition to NIKE and Adidas and
other traditional industrial enterprises start to actively invest; Apple, Google, other internet electronic
companies also sense the potential market values and already distribute their R&D on the sporting
industry.