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Fitness Classes Get A Social Upgrade With The Launch Of Roeme

Fitness Classes Get A Social Upgrade With The Launch Of Roeme

The fitness world is full of apps, smart devices, and new boutique studios. As young investment banking professionals in Atlanta, Allie Stolte and Jackson Ford tried out a lot of them. They loved running clubs, and they quickly found themselves incorporating more fitness classes into their routines. That’s when

Fathom AI Aims to Reduce Sports-Related Injuries With Wearable Ankle Sensors

Fathom AI Aims to Reduce Sports-Related Injuries With Wearable Ankle Sensors

In 2013, Duke University athletes Ivonna Dumanyan and Gabrielle Levac both found themselves sidelined by sports-related injuries. During their rehab, they commiserated over the constant onslaught of preventable injuries they'd experienced over the course of their careers. "That's basically how injury works," Dumanyan

Caroline Dunn

Meet the Only Woman In the Top 10 Of Amazon's Alexa Skills Challenge

Since Amazon launched the Echo Show, the first Alexa device with a screen, the company has been encouraging developers to modify Alexa Skills to make them more visual. That was the impetus for the Multimodal Alexa Skills Challenge, a contest judging Alexa Skills with visual components. The Challenge, which opened

WODLeader

WODLeader's Software Pumps Up Fitness Competition Management

Alex McDonald, Mehmet Bajin, and Jeff Kim — all fitness competition enthusiasts — had all worked at the same healthcare software company in Madison, Wisconsin, but didn’t realize that they’d all relocated to Atlanta until McDonald and Bajin ran into each other while biking. The three software experts teamed up

Fitspot

How Fitspot Measures and Implements Employee Wellness Plans — and You Can Too

In the old school world of workplace culture, we asked not what a company could do for us, but what we could do for the company. Rigid working hours, dress codes, and more were thought to elicit the highest productivity from employees. In recent years, however, there has been a

Fit Radio

Amp Up Your Workout With Fit Radio App's Musically-Inclined Cardio Coach

Scientists at the American Council on Exercise found that by making people move in sync with sound, feel more energized, and distract from discomfort, music can drive exercise intensity. If you’ve ever gotten to the gym ready for your workout only to find yourself wishing you could rewind to

fitgenie

These Fitness Experts Built An App To Help You Get A Data-Driven Summer Bod

Though many try to simplify it — eat less, move more — nutrition and fitness really is a complicated science with numerous factors like metabolism, muscle mass, and genetics at play. Two Georgia Tech engineers, Keith Osayande and Obi Anachebe, realized this when they got involved with the university's fitness