Bangkok Bank CycleFest set out to be a cycling and lifestyle event that celebrates the joy of mobility on two wheels in Pattaya, Thailand. Held over two days, a variety of rides and races are available, distances ranging from 30 km to 60 km. The variety included individual timed rides, a 90-minute fun ride and a team time trial. The course is 15.5km over scenic, closed and good quality roads around the amazing Golf Club Siam Country Club offering a unique riding experience for cyclists of all ages and experience levels. Over both days, there will be a festival village which includes lots of family entertainment.
Two months ago we had the great pleasure to win the POR CREO 2014-2020, a project carried out by the Region of Tuscany and the Regional Operational Program (ROP) of the European Regional Development Fund. MagneticDays was selected with its biomedical project named Bio MagneticDays – developed in R.T.I. (Temporary grouping ocompanies) – with the goal of bringing a five-year experience in the world of indoor training, the JARVIS (the one and only indoor training system based on a scientific approach), into the field of medical rehabilitation and to help people with heart conditions, diabetes, trauma patients and all those in need of an actively assisted movement.
This biomedical project has the goal to improve the quality of the MD system, the JARVIS, by developing technological models suitable for the field of medical rehabilitation, and the trial of two prototypes of indoor training systems in water.
Bio MagneticDays Research Project and workout protocols in water
“The Bio MagneticDays Project will see the JARVIS become an instrument able to satisfy both the needs of scientific research and medical rehabilitation – MD CEO Marco Sbragi said – Starting from the study of water mechanics, and implementing prototypes which are being tested by our company.”
A high interest in the Bio-MagneticDays project came from Salaria Sport Village (the largest Italian sports center and second in Europe with over 220,000 square meters of vegetation), where the team, headed by Professor Andrea Passerini Ph.D., is working on specific workout protocols in the water. The aquatic environment has distinctive features, such as anti-gravity, resistance of Water-Bike in the water and variable water pressure, representing the best place especially for particular kinds of subjects/patients (for example obese people), who are strongly impeded in carrying out workouts in “dry” conditions.
Bio MagneticDays Research Project represents an additional plus of MD indoor training system
So far, it has not been possible to provide adequate guidelines for specific workout protocols, because the available technologies did not allow recording some of the most interesting results. Having a system for detecting and supplying workloads while training in water – as MagneticDays does – is a huge innovation. Being able to quantify an immersion effort through the monitoring of parameters such as Power (Watts) and RPM, allows to evaluate the progress achieved over time and to analyze the study related to the physiological-metabolic variations of the subjects under examination. The use of the MagneticDays Water-Bike (W-Bike) prototype will make a considerable contribution to the scientific literature that is still incomplete in this matter.
“We are very proud and honored – Prof. Passerini said – that the high quality of MagneticDays (which has always distinguished itself from the research, experimentation and innovation point of view) has also been recognized at the European level. In our opinion, this is a great opportunity to maintain the high quality offered by Salaria Sports Village and open a new line of research that will certainly bring great results.”
The project is the result of a partnership amongst companies from different trades (precision mechanics, aerospace and railway mechanics, electronics and medicine) with the active collaboration of a University of excellence such as Pisa, particularly the Faculty of Medicine and Department of Cardiology, where a team led by Professor Dr. Carlo Palombo and Dr. Sara Sbragi developed the entire set of incremental test protocols, performed the data collection and made the analyses for later scientific validation.
Our customer support is one of the most appreciated services. From January 2019, a new MagneticDays Help Center will available. This new service will be totally online, with a direct access at the reference page from the menu of MD website, where you will can find all the best answers to your questions: FAQs continually updated, guidelines and video tutorial. And last but not the least, we will activate the HELP CALL (paid service), a new priority assistance request.
The new MD Help Centre will be online very soon, and we will inform you through our newsletter, website and official social media channels.
MagneticDays continues to improve its quality and online services, giving to all users and clients the chance to writing a workout by the personal account on MagneticDays website, where is possible to access to the function named Training Composer.
“We decided to give everyone the chance to write their own workout by accessing directly from the personal account – MD company said in a note – because our users and clients are not always able to have their PC (with the MD software installed) at your fingertips. In addition, we continue to work on the fluency and navigation of the MD website, with the goal to improve our services that are mainly supplied online.”
The control panel is already available in basic mode, but it can be implemented gradually in its functions by purchasing of different types of plugins available on MD shop from half of January 2019.
Meet us and try our scientific smart trainer at JJ Pro Cycling Centre Booth (within Expo Area), one of the best in Thailand for Coaching, Bike Fitting, Aerodynamics, Lactate Tests & Cycling Consultancy by Professional “Coach JJ” with 35 years experience. All of visitors and athletes will can try JARVIS, the first indoor training system based on a scientific approach. See you in Pattaya! 😉
We are ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Laguna Phuket Triathlon, Asia’s longest running triathlon. The event will be held on the 18th of November 2018 at Laguna Phuket, Asia’s premier destination resort. Laguna Phuket Triathlon, also know as The race of legend, is a carnival of multisport fun and tri-related activities for you to enjoy at Laguna Phuket. The event will feature the best international pro triathletes. Amateur age groupers will have a chance to measure themselves with the best in the world or simply try to achieve their own personal goals.
The race will comprise of a unique 1.8km swim in two different bodies of water, a 1.3km sea swim immediately followed by a 0.5km swim in one of Laguna Phuket’s freshwater lagoons. A new and improved 50km bike course will take athletes on a scenic and challenging tour of northern Phuket with the famous Naithorn Hills as the ultimate challenge. The 12km run is a two lap course around the Laguna Phuket resort complex. This race distance is open for individual triathletes and relay teams of three.
Meet us and try our scientific smart trainer at JJ Pro Cycling Centre Booth (within Expo Area), one of the best in Thailand for Coaching, Bike Fitting, Aerodynamics, Lactate Tests & Cycling Consultancy by Professional “Coach JJ” with 35 years experience. All of visitors and athlete will can try JARVIS, the first indoor training system based on a scientific approach. See you there! 😉
Have you downloaded recently the MD App WiFi and are you ready to start your workout? Sounds good.. everything is ready!
How do you say? Training stopped after 10 minutes? Have you disabled or modify the “Warning Notification” option in the My Account menu?
“Warning Notification” involves the immediate interruption of workout at the max Threshold Heart Rate value reached. You can disable or modify this value in the My Account menu (default is 120 bpm) based on your needs. This novelty was launched in occasion of the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) by the European Regional Development Fund and co-financed by Tuscany Region, where MagneticDays has been selected with its biomedical project named Bio-MagneticDays – developed in R.T.I. (Temporary grouping of of companies) – with the goal to bring a five-year experience in the world of indoor training for cycling through the use of the one and only indoor training system based on a scientific approach in the field of medical rehabilitation.
The Self-Calibrating Workout on JARVIS smart trainer is a type of workout studied by MagneticDays, in collaboration with the University of Verona, that can be used as a “guideline” in case you do not have the support of an MD Coach (different from the HTT – High Tech Training methodology), which, to date, represents the top possible scientific personalization of a training carried out on any type of smart trainers currently on the market, and with the supervision of a Coach. Specifically, Self-Calibrating Workout represents a series of protocols designed to allow the user/athlete to perform a good workout when the optimal conditions for doing so are lacking. Here’s what Simone Buracchi, head of the MD technical area, had to say.
Self-Calibrating MD Workout: why and when to use it
Self-Calibrating Workout is the most effective training that can be done – if done well – without the presence of a Coach. Normally, when performing an incremental test, the MD Coach observes the results and accurately identifies the frequency threshold values, with the aim of setting the first cycle of tailor-made workouts. On the other hand, with Self-Calibrating Workout, the Coach cannot personally verify what the user/athlete has done, and the protocol we studied in collaboration with the University of Verona comes into play. We evaluated the individual incremental tests by observing where the threshold was placed on average with respect to the last step performed according to the protocol used. In the case of the 1:6 protocol (1 watt every 6 seconds) the threshold fell on average around 82% – 80% of the last work step completed, while in the 1:3 protocol (1 watt every 3 seconds) the threshold fell on average around 76% – 74% of the last work step completed.
The only “scientific” aspect taken into consideration for the drafting of the self-calibrating protocol (i.e. the data as close as possible to reality), is to understand how much, at a statistical level, the threshold is set with respect to the type of protocol used, without having a Coach. This type of training, performed with this criterion and specific for the required methods, is used to evaluate the condition of the user/athlete at a precise moment. While our classic incremental test is performed after 25/30 minutes from having performed an adequate warm-up first and some exercises after, the self-calibrating workout is performed at the beginning of the training (protocol 1:3, 1 watt every 3 seconds) right after a short warm-up phase. Nonetheless, I’d like to remind everybody that behind the infinite possibilities offered by the JARVIS indoor training system there is always and in any case knowledge. This tool can do anything, and does everything the coach tells it to do. With this concept in mind, we structured the self-calibrating workout by telling the instrument, once the user/athlete finishes the test, to analyze the last work step completed by subtracting a previously estimated X value. Consequently the second part of the exercise is structured automatically on the basis of the values calculated at that precise moment. It goes without saying that, for greater accuracy, the support of an MD Coach is always recommended. However, we believe that this way we can provide accurate data with the aim of delivering a test that is appropriate at the precise moment in which it is used.
How is an MD Self-Calibrating Workout structured?
The first part of the self-calibrating workout consists of the incremental test (warm-up + 1:3 protocol). With this type of protocol (1 watt every 3 seconds), which lasts less than the classic 1:6, the user/athlete feels more fatigue but for a shorter time. The test is certainly shorter in terms of duration but with a wider gap regarding the rounding of the data. The second part, on the other hand, consists of the workout that the instrument processes with the values based on the incremental test just performed.
In which cases is Self-Calibrating Workout on MD smart trainers recommended?
We normally recommend it anytime you don’t feel 100% of your normal psychophysical condition. That is to say, if you feel intensely fatigued and a particular workout assigned by your MD Coach (who deems you in suitable conditions to carry it out) requires too big an effort, the self-calibrating workout option comes into play with the aim of providing an assessment of the user’s/athlete’s state of fitness at that moment. So feel free to do this workout whenever you feel that your condition is not at its best. This is an effective training, but keep in consideration that the actual calculation of the threshold value is always better than an estimated one.
The new release 6.0.7 of MD Training PC software is available now. Download it from APP section of our website. This version improve the previous (6.0.5) adjusting some software bugs.
J-BIKE is one of the latest innovations by MagneticDays. It was launched for the first time on the Asiatic marketplace in 2017, and includes all the high performance technology of JARVIS. J-BIKE is more than a traditional indoor bike. It’s a complete and high performance indoor training system for high quality training, created to meet the needs of fitness and wellness centers that always required a specific product.
The 2018 Italian Rowing Champion Chiara Sacco of Rowing Master Italian Team, is one of the athlete who has chosen to train with J-BIKE. The futuristic design was made by the Tuscan architect Gianfranco Caprai, who is specialized in product design. J-BIKE is programmable to work in multi session also, an additional plus for all the fitness and wellness centers which can monitor the personal improvements of their customers in real time, through real and reproducible data, thanks to the high quality and one-of-a-kind product able to “build” specific trainings for all the people in every moment (depending on their needs).
The world of indoor training is changing. The pace of innovation is accelerating exponentially and MagneticDays is always in front. Day by day.
New release 2.3.0 of App MD WiFi is already available for iOS and Android. It includes many innovations as:
Added Heart Rate Threshold control icon
Added “curves simulation” during the race modality
Added “virtual target” during the race modality
Added “workouts grouping” by type
Improved data visualization on workout screen
The mission of POR CREO 2014-2020 – sponsored by the Region of Tuscany, the Regional Operational Program (ROP) of the European Regional Development Fund – is to contribute to the implementation of European Union strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion.
MagneticDays has been selected to participate in this project, with its biomedical project named Bio MagneticDays – developed in R.T.I. (Temporary grouping of companies). The goal is to bring a five-year experience in the world of indoor training for cycling through the use of the one and only indoor training system based on a scientific approach in the field of medical rehabilitation.
“Our goal – said the CEO of MagneticDays – is to improve what is already on the market by developing technological models suitable for use in the field of medical rehabilitation, through the trial of two prototypes of indoor training systems in water. We are very proud and honored that the high quality of MagneticDays – which has always distinguished itself from the research, experimentation and innovation point of view – has also been recognized at the European level.”
The Bio MagneticDays Project
The project is the result of a partnership amongst companies from different trades (precision mechanics, aerospace and railway mechanics, electronics and medicine) with the active collaboration of two important Italian Universities: University of Pisa – Faculty of Medicine and Department of Cardiology (incremental test protocols, collection of data and its scientific validation), and University of Verona – Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Science of Exercise (rehabilitation).
Bio MagneticDays Project is the result of experience and enthusiasm of many users and people who believe in a unique indoor cycling training system based on a scientific approach, and who understand that this approach can be expanded in areas other than sports.
Heart patients, diabetics, traumatized patients and obese persons, are just some of the subjects interested in exploiting the full potential of an indoor training system like MD that allows you to control the pedaling movement accurately, in order of 0.5 Newton.
The highest technology in the simplest gesture in the world
“The Bio MagneticDays Project will see the JARVIS become an instrument able to satisfy both the needs of scientific research and medical rehabilitation – MD CEO Marco Sbragi said – starting from the study of water mechanics, and implementing prototypes which are being tested by our company.”
The highest technology in the simplest gesture in the world – as the pedaling movement – and all the best strategies to obtain a targeted outcome. This is a revolution and innovation for our company (like the one started a few years ago with the launch of a new innovative product for cycling – the JARVIS) that looks with enthusiasm and expertise at the world of medical rehabilitation. And this is just the beginning, an amazing research and experimentation opportunity, thanks to the POR CREO by the Tuscany Region.
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The fixed-gear bicycle (aka fixed-wheel bicycle or fixie) is a bicycle that has a drivetrain with no freewheel mechanism. More recently the “fixie” has become a popular alternative among mainly urban cyclists, offering the advantage of simplicity compared with the standard multi-geared bicycle, and becoming another way to experience the passion for bike.
Did you know that MagneticDays allows the use of fixie also?
To use the fixed-gear system, pull the lock towards the cassette sprocket. It’s very important to align the pins of the locking system to the spaces between the teeth of the larger chainring. When the locking system is closed, it allows the use of your fixed-gear. The fixed-gear system represents another opportunity offered by MagneticDays, a world-unique plus among the indoor training systems, confirming the innovation and high quality of JARVIS, a real smart scientific trainer adaptable to every need and condition.
