What if a wearable didn’t just monitor progress, but helped make it?
Wearables have been popular for fitness and tracking exercise, but what if the future of tech could actually help improve your results?
The market of fitness tech has grown stale- hardware on your wrist that measures your progress and gives you feedback. Plus1 aims to take it another step further in helping the user achieve their fitness goals.
How can a wearable promote muscle growth?
When talking to a Physical Therapist on how a device could promote muscle growth, I was pointed to research neuromuscular junctions. These junctions are at the taper of muscles that operate with electrical impulses- I set out to see if a device could realistically trigger these areas and support the workout.
As school picks up, Derrick finds making time for the gym more difficult. He knows the advantages of having a partner to workout with, but getting to the gym is hard enough- let along with a viable partner. When he finds time, he heads to the gym to get his mind off of life and work on his physique.
Moving to a new city for her job, Mia is still sorting her life out during a real transitional period. Working out has always been her outlet, but she doesn’t have a partner to help her improve herself. Fed up with minimal improvement, she knows that she has to make more progress with the time she has exercising.
