Feature: Smart at
- Home
- News
- People
- In-depth
- ACWF
Feature: Smart at-Home Fitness Surges amid Epidemic
April 6, 2022SHANGHAI, April 5 (Xinhua) — Online exercise programs fueled by advanced technologies have been embraced in China as many ordinary citizens and sports enthusiasts have taken to at-home workouts amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zhao Lina, goalkeeper of China's national women's football team, posted a video clip on social media showing her at-home workouts with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) which soon went viral.
The video shows the Shanghai player completing a series of standard workouts including deep squat jacks and push-ups, and then advocating the adoption of at-home sports AI to people who are locked down amid a resurgence of COVID-19.
Sports AI, launched by AlibabaSports Group, is based on AI image recognition technology, allowing users to do countable and correctable workouts with only a cellphone and three to four square meters of space at home.
The technology, which detects body contours in real-time through cameras, tracks the key attachment points of the skeletal system to analyze the completion of movements to help achieve exercisers' desired fitness training results.
The smart fitness solution has trended in sports shopping festivals promoted through online campaigns, live streamings and offline training programs by many brands.
According to AlibabaSports, more than 750,000 users have already adopted at-home workouts via sports AI, with the top five workouts being deep squats, straight arm jacks, squat jacks, jumping rope and jumping jacks.
"At first, we regarded sports AI as a technology, and then a product, and now we believe that it is also a solution that can combine online and offline resources to hold sports events through digital methods," said Huang Chunxiang, vice president of AlibabaSports.
"Sports will eventually return to the real world, and sports AI undoubtedly inspires everyone to overcome the pandemic and get their lives back on track," he added.
(Source: Xinhua)
32.3KPlease understand that womenofchina.cn,a non-profit, information-communication website, cannot reach every writer before using articles and images. For copyright issues, please contact us by emailing: [email protected]. The articles published and opinions expressed on this website represent the opinions of writers and are not necessarily shared by womenofchina.cn.
Comments
Magazines
Projects
- 2023 Women Science and Technology Innovation Pioneer...
Photos
- People Enjoy Blooming Tulips in Jinan, East...
- Flowers Bloom Across China in Spring
Special Coverage
Related articles
I was 'brokefished' by my friend for £400
I need your help. My friend K has been recently telling our friendship group about how dire his fina2024-05-21VOX POPULI: Time’s up for wallowing in nostalgia for the Showa Era
I once started writing “like a broken record” and stopped, realizing this could all be Greek to the2024-05-21Charges filed against school official in case of boy, 6, who shot teacher
By Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC NewsPolice tape hangs from a sign post outside Richneck Elementary School2024-05-21Putin's visit to Beijing underscores China's support for Russia
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here2024-05-21‘The Blue Angels,’ filmed for IMAX, puts viewers in the ‘box’ with the elite flying squad
If you’re looking for a little bit of that “ Top Gun: Maverick ” spectacle and thrill at the movie t2024-05-212 companies fined total of HK$352,000 after dancers injured at Mirror concert
Two companies have been fined a total of HK$352,000 for causing injuries to three dancers at a rehea2024-05-21
atest comment