03 Jun

• WSSC 2012 Wrap Up

wssc2012 wrapup

The WSSC 2012 has come to a close, and we’d like to offer our thanks to everyone who visited the Sonic Fitness booth at our first visit to the World Spinning and Sports Conference 2012!

The conference was a great success, and we are excited about the system that we were able to feature and demonstrate.  The WSSC gave us the opportunity to touch base with existing Suunto Fitness Solution users and introduce the system to literally hundreds of prospective facilities across North America. The positive feedback we received was very exciting!

At the conference iQniter the global distributor for the Suunto Fitness Solution donated a full Suunto Fitness Solution system that was raffled off on Saturday night. The winner of the system is Cindy Bell of Pedal Spin Studios 

For everyone else, we offered a free Lenovo notebook computer with the purchase of the system. That offer expires  June 18 2012.

For further information on any of our services, please email support@sonic-fitness.com or the business representative you met at the show.

Check out these pics from the show!

28 May

• SONIC FITNESS Exhibits at the World Spinning and Sports Conference: Miami

Sonic Science at WSSC: Miami 2012

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Sonic Fitness is exhibiting at the World Spinning and Sports Conference 2012 in beautiful Miami, Florida from Thursday May 31st to June 3rd!

The WSSC brings together some of the most incredible and dynamic presenters in the world of spinning and sports for a fun-filled and educational weekend that will leave your heart racing! We’ll be situated in the Vendor Village in our brand spanking new booth to demonstrate the Suunto Fitness Solution hands-on with our friends from iQniter.

Visitors will get a chance to explore the software and see their own heart rate on our screens, and meet Martin Yale and Scott Clay, but that’s not all! We’ll also be raffling off a FREE Suunto Fitness Solution system for one lucky entrant! Raffle tickets and further info will be available at the booth. On your raffle ticket you’ll find a link to a special WSSC page here at Sonic Fitness where you’ll find additional goodies, as well as the place to see if you’ve won! All visitors to our booth will also get a code good for a free Lenovo notebook computer with a purchase of a Suunto Fitness Solution (pre-loaded with the software, natch!)

The itinerary for the weekend will include some important names in spinning and fitness from around the globe and will be filled with fun and exciting presentations. Not to mention ourselves along with a host of other great fitness vendors. To learn more about the show visit: http://www.wsscmiami.com/

25 Apr

• CLUB FOCUS: CRUNCH Sunset Blvd Sinks It’s Teeth Into The Suunto Fitness Solution

Crunch Sunset is, in their own words a “quintessentially cool Hollywood gym; a place to see and be seen as much as it is a place to workout…Members here are as electric as the Strip itself and know how to work a room, mingling while they move their bodies.” A premier fitness centre using Suunto Fitness Solution to it’s full potential is a sight to behold, and their Tommy Woelfel filled us in!

“Using the Suunto technology has not only provided the members with a new, exciting, colorful and visual way to learn about incorporating heart rate training into their workouts, it has forced me
as an instructor to learn more and become a better instructor!  I love it!” 

Crunch – Sunset has incorporated the Suunto Fitness Solution technology in two ways:

The Red Line Ride is a class where members can borrow a heart rate monitor from the gym and see their heart rates projected on a screen at the front of the class.  A nickname is used so that no one feels self-conscious about having their personal information projected in such a way. Tommy coaches a ride that references the heart rates and corresponding color zones (percentages of a given maximum heart rate).  Members are encouraged (but not required) to purchase their own heart rate monitor.

Those with their own belts will receive an email with detailed results of the Ride.  In addition, the details will also be automatically uploaded to the member’s profile on the website, Movescount.com where even more information and detailed comparisons can be viewed!

Periodically, Crunch will host a CAMP CRUNCH: Red Line Ride 6-Week Intensive.  This is a program where a limited number of members sign up for 2 semi-private classes per week. These classes provide more personal attention by an instructor trained to use the Suunto Fitness Solution technology.  Additional articles and resources are provided to the participants.

“The customer feedback has been amazing!  In the CAMP CRUNCH: Red Line Ride 6-Week Intensive, almost half of the participants in the initial program signed up for the second offering!  One of the participants used to hate spinning.  Now, she can’t wait to get into class and take her heart rate into the red!”

The CAMP CRUNCH: Red Line Ride Intensives and the Red Line Ride classes have provided Crunch with a new program and a new class to help keep members excited about Crunch and it’s classes.

“I am continuously excited by our members’ desire to learn more.  I am constantly challenged to continue providing the best and most intense classes using the Suunto Fitness Solution technology.  I am always rewarded as an instructor by the comments, results, changes in lifestyle and workouts, and the increased information that members enjoy and share with me.” 

Visit Crunch on the Web: http://www.crunch.com/Locations/Los%20Angeles/Sunset.aspx

Ride With Tommy! http://www.ridewithtommy.com/

23 Apr

• Interview with Sally Edwards

Are You Ready For Sally Edwards?

Jason Maxwell

It’s not every day that you get to sit down and speak with a legend.  These people are few and far between.  As the population grows, legends become more and more rare.  In fact, I’m still grinning from my talk with a triathlete legend, serial entrepreneur, heart rate expert, author, public speaker, and the nicest person you will ever meet (except for when she made fun of me for saying “eh”).

Enter Sally Edwards.
Sally EdwardsPhoto courtesy of zoningfitness.com

*Believe it or not, she’s even cooler and more energetic in person.*

Growing up in the pre Title IX era, 90 percent of sports budgets went to boys sports.  Even though this occurred, Sally still played and excelled in every sport imaginable.  “I chose my parents well, so I can thank them for my good genes.  Even though there were no teams, and no opportunities, I played as many sports as I could, and then got into competitive running in my early twenties.”  The great thing about running, is that you don’t need funding to be able to start.  We now know that competitive running was Sally’s gateway into something much, much more.

“I had been doing ultra-marathons for 3 or 4 years and won a couple of 100 mile races.  I then decided that I wanted the next challenge: Ironman triathlons (this is partly because there were no other triathlons to do).  I did my first Ironman in 1980 and was the fifth woman to ever finish an Ironman triathlon.  I finished 2nd, fell in love with the sport and wrote the first book on triathlon training (before anybody even knew what triathlons were).  Since then, I’ve written 24 books in total.  At the time we were a bunch of freaks, and winning these races were no big deal…but then in my 40’s I ran a race and set the masters world record…and that was pretty cool.  To do a personal best when you are 40 years old feels really good.”

Now, we all know that you can’t just go out and enter a triathlon without training.  At the peak of Sally’s career, she would predominantly use cross training (she coined the term in her first book, Triathlon).  “When I was doing competitive running, I was a big advocate of specificity of training, and cross training was a logical transition for me while doing triathlons.  In 1984, I got my first heart rate monitor, and since then I’ve only done heart rate based training.”

“The heart rate monitor is a biofeedback tool (like the speedometer on your car).  It’s fun and gives context using data and numbers.  For years, it was our only way of measuring physical stress.  Second of all, it’s also a diagnostic and a tool and can help measuring physiological response to different situations.  A few years ago, Heart Zones (my company) fell in love with the Suunto Fitness Solution.  We called it the ‘Gymbotron’ because we would project a whole group’s heart rate zones onto big screens in gyms and high schools.   It was like a huge fitness event!  This way, we could track everyone in the group’s heart rate, and use this as an indicator to see if anyone is working too hard, or on the other hand not hard enough.  The indoor cycling studios just loved being able to teach and guide exercise intensity based on individualizing the experience, yet they can all train together as a group.” The Suunto Fitness Solution was a stable and reliable platform for Sally’s training, and made her workouts more effective.

After speaking with Sally, I felt like I learned a crazy amount of information about heart rate training, business, goal setting, and just enjoying life.  If I could describe Sally is one sentence it would have to be this:  The girl’s got heart.

For more info on Sally, you can check her out at any of the following websites:

www.theSallyEdwardsCompany.com

www.ZoningFitness.com

www.HeartZones.com

www.jmaxfitness.com

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