Technology is infiltrating cycling at every level and nowhere else is this as true as in performance tracking. Barely a day goes by where we don’t receive details about some flashy new smart trainer, power meter or GPS in our inboxes.
Road cycling techies and academics the world over are developing increasingly advanced systems in the hope of being able to better predict and track the performance of athletes.
One such study is being carried out by Alice Bullas, a PHD student at Sheffield Hallam University, and the really exciting thing is that the tech she uses could soon be coming to your smartphone or tablet.
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Alice is studying how body scanning can be used to predict athlete performance and invited our resident racing and video extraordinaires, Joe Norledge and Reuben Bakker-Dyos to check out the groundbreaking kit.
Why is body scanning important?
Until now, quantifying improvements through training has been a relatively inexact science.
Quantifying change
The results
The future
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