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By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist Could a skin-tight shirt festooned with sensors improve the qualityof your work-out? A team of Northeastern students and profs have built a prototypethat could point the way to the future of coaching and personaltraining for some elite athletes and perhaps eventually hard-coregym rats, too. The Squid shirt is a tricked-out short-sleeve shirtfrom Under Armour that monitors how your delts, pecs, and lats areperforming. (It also tracks your heart rate.) The shirt knows ifyou're hitting your exercise goals, and also if both sides of yourbody are doing equal amounts of work. It can relay that informationvia Bluetooth to a mobile phone or laptop, which would allow acoach or personal trainer to keep tabs on how you're doing. Theshirt can also give you feedback via vibration if you're slackingoff. "It's a way for a trainer or coach to sign up an athlete for aworkout, and collect data on how they do with it," says AdamMorgan, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. "They cantarget different muscle areas that they might want to develop withan individual or a group of team members." Trevor Lorden (pictured here) showed me how it worked, using aseated row machine. He said that it only takes him about twominutes to don the Squid shirt and affix the dozen disposablesensors. (The shirt can be washed in a machine, as long as it'sdried on low heat.) Since the team is still developing theBluetooth connection, he was connected to a laptop by a cable. AliAas, who helped develop the mobile app and web site, showed how theinformation about Lorden's workout could be viewed. You could see acalendar showing which days he'd worked out, and how his averageintensity compared to the goal he'd set on various exercises. Italso showed on a spectrum whether the exerciser is favoring one armversus the other, or working out in perfect symmetry. Faculty advisor Mark Sivak told me that they'll be testing theshirt with Northeastern athletes this summer. They see the initialmarket as college and professional sports teams. The Squiddoos maysoon add additional sensors to monitor the biceps and abdominalmuscles, and Constantinos Mavroidis, another faculty advisor to theproject, said they've had some early conversations with a medicaldevice company interested in the Squid shirt about tracking bloodpressure and breathing. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Die Cast Molds , Metal Stamping Molds, and more. For more , please visit Metal Stamping Molds today!
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