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A Milwaukee-based developer is moving forward with plans to renovate a 105-year-old building into a cafe,fitness center and leasing office at 10460 Innovation Drive in Wauwatosa.

The Mandel Group is calling the project The Historic Boiler House renovation. The projectwill renovate the one-story former powerhouse near the Milwaukee County Research Park. The 7,500-square-foot building planwas approved by the Wauwatosa Plan Commission after a public hearing on Monday, Jan. 13.

The Historic Boiler House is envisioned to be the third space for both residents of the apartments, the nearby hotel guests and for the over 22,000 employees within a onemile radius," a letter from the developer to the plan commission said. "The building is being restored to its historic significance and will have exposed brick, expansive interior volumes with open trusses and large arch top windows."

The renovations are being done in conjunction with a project by Mandel Group to build the four-story, 105-unit Crescent Apartments at 10430 W. Innovation Drive, just a few blocks south of the Milwaukee County Research park entrance on WestWatertown Plank Road.

Theplans were originally proposed in 2016. The Wauwatosa Plan Commission approved the plans then, but because of project delays, the conditional-use permit for the project lapsed, meaning the commission had to approve the plans again Jan. 13.

We've had a couple of hiccups along the way, primarily related to the cost of the project and trying to maintain the quality of the project as construction costs have escalated, Bob Monnat, the chief operating officer of Mandel Group, told the plan commission.

Guy Mascari, the executive director of the Milwaukee County Research Park, was the only member of the public who spoke during the public hearing. He was in favor of the plans.

Ive been looking at his building for 25 years. I drive by it every day going to work, and Ive been involved in architecture in the past, and i could visualize what can take place in the building, he said. What they've shown here will fully realize the potential of that building.

Monnat said the building is expected to open in late 2020.

The back of the renovation, which is being called the Historic Boiler House renovation by the Mandel Group.(Photo: Mandel Group/Submitted)

Monnat said the fitness center will be 3,680 square feet, and will be open around the clock to apartment residents at the nearby apartment building. The fitness center will also be open to the public during normal business hours.

He also said the fitness center will specialize in personal training. Mandel will announce who the tenant is when they sign the lease.

This is not like an Anytime Fitness, Snap Fitness This is higher end, directed training, he said. Theres a physical training component;its not just a hop on the treadmill or bike sort of place.

Mandel Group is finalizing a contract with the tenant for the cafe portion of the renovation.Mandel said the cafe space will be 2,630 square feet and will generally be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The intent is for the cafe to serve breakfast and lunch. Design plans said it will not be open for dinner.It will also have an outdoor patio. Plans call forthe restaurant to employ 12 people.

The development also includes a leasing office and a common area near the entrance.

Alderperson James-Moldenhauer praised the developers during the meeting.

I know we revere our historical roots, and I think this rendering and everything else seems to embody that, he said.

The plans will need to go to the Wauwatosa Common Council for approval; a date has not been set for that.

Evan Casey can be reached at 414-403-4391 or evan.casey@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter @ecaseymedia.

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Captain Joe Root will keep a close eye on the fitness of Mark Wood and Jofra Archer in Englands final practice session before the third Test against South Africa.

England need a replacement for James Anderson and would like to have one of their express pace bowlers charging in at Port Elizabeth on Thursday.

But Wood has not played a competitive match in the six months since the World Cup final and Archer is still battling the soreness in his right elbow which forced him out of the previous match.

Both men have been building up their workloads in recent days but need to make one last push to persuade Root.

Speaking before training on Wednesday, he said: That decision hasnt been made. Its important to use todays session and make sure weve got a really clear understanding of where everybody is at.

We need to find that out and make sure were really clear going into a five-day game that they are able to stand up to the challenges that will bring, physically and mentally, having not played for a little while.

It is the sensible thing to do to hold off, get more information on the pitch and more information on where theyre at.

Wood tore his side in the World Cup final and has a long series of injury problems that have held back his career.

On the other hand he bowled a fearsome spell in the nets on Monday visibly quicker than Archer, who appeared less able to unleash at full pace.

If that pattern continues in their final head-to-head he could find himself getting the nod at St Georges Park, with Root seemingly keen to reward hard work in the nets.

Joe Root is keen to reward hard work in the nets (Mike Egerton/PA)

If theyve proven themselves to be fit, if theyve jumped through every hoop and worked very hard to get back there, you have to give them that opportunity, he said.

With Mark, if you look at the last summer of cricket he played, he actually got through a lot of cricket injury-free which is testament to how hard hes worked on his rehab and making sure his body can cope with different things. Hes been managed well by the medical staff.

The reason weve been quite cautious in terms of rushing him back is that history. If hes 100 per cent, bowling at 90mph-plus, the skills he has at that pace are going to cause problems and will be a great asset in Test cricket.

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Lyudmila Bouzinova and Jonathan Pearlman are to be married Jan. 12 at the Vizcaya Museum & Gardens in Miami. Rabbi David Englander is to officiate.

The bride, 33, and groom, 31, are co-founders of Mission Lean, a fitness and nutrition brand in Boca Raton, Fla., that focuses on functional training and lean body fitness, with workouts and recipes accessible via an app.

The bride, who is taking her husbands name, graduated from Boston University and received a masters degree in economics from Fordham.

She is the daughter of Nadejda N. Bouzinova and Pavel A. Bouzinov of Walpole, Mass. The brides father is a structural engineer at Dassault Systemes, a software company in Johnston, R.I. Her mother is a senior human resources information systems administrator at WilmerHale in Boston.

The groom is also the author of The Lean Body Manual. He graduated from Harvard.

He is the son of Susan Schneider and Mark Pearlman of New York. The grooms mother is an investor and philanthropist.

The couple met on Halloween 2011 on the Harvard indoor track, where she was part of a running club and he was training for the colleges tennis season.

She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life, Mr. Pearlman said. I was not leaving that facility without first talking to her.

He wasted little time in introducing himself, and did not know that Ms. Bouzinova had already noticed him, and was hoping he would approach her.

I just thought he was so cute, she said. When I saw him coming over to me, I got very excited.

Within minutes, Mr. Pearlman asked Ms. Bouzinova out on a date and she accepted. Three days later, they met at a coffee shop on the Harvard campus and bonded over a love of fitness and travel.

On their third date, they shared a first kiss inside a reconstructed pyramid that was part of an ancient Egyptian display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. They continued dating and soon learned a great deal about each other. Ms. Bouzinova emigrated from Moscow at age 8, and lived in New York for four years, where she modeled professionally and appeared on Season 9 of Americas Next Top Model.

Mr. Pearlman grew up on the Upper East Side and attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, during which time he competed across the country in national tennis tournaments.

He was unlike any man I had ever dated in that he never bragged about himself or told me all of the things he was going to do for me, Ms. Bouzinova said. He always told me stories about who he really was, and he never tried to put up a front to impress me.

They soon began traveling together throughout the world, to such places as Spain, England, France, Turkey, Israel and Japan. They relocated to Florida soon after, where they incorporated Mission Lean and set out to share their vision of fitness.

From the very start, our personalities have always complemented each other, Mr. Pearlman said. We could never have achieved anything together if not for her trustworthiness and dedication. Shes someone I know I can always count on.

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Originally unveiled as a concept device, a new IndieGoGo listing for the Amazfit X suggests Huami (the company behind Amazfit products) is nearing production for its most futuristic looking wearable yet.

The Amazfit X was teased in September 2019, with a curved display that gives this fitness tracker a unique design that the company's other products haven't had.

The fitness tracker has just been listed on crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, but so far you can only register your interest, and there's no clear sign of whether the company will be asking its fans for money to make the product or whether the listing will act more as just a way to pre-order it.

Previously, Amazfit had confirmed the Amazfit X would be launched in 2020, so taking it to a crowd-funding platform confuses matters a little. This may just be a listing that is used to advertise the upcoming tracker.

Regardless, it's set to feature a 2-inch AMOLED display with a 92-degree curvature that should see it fit comfortably on your wrist. It's also set to have 7-day battery life and sport a variety of fitness features, including a heart rate monitor and the ability to go underwater up to 5 meters deep.

The listing doesn't give us a clear idea on a release date for the Amazfit X, but we should hear more from the company in the coming months about when its next device will be introduced.

At CES 2020, Huami introduced the Amazfit Bip S and Amazfit T-Rex, so it may be a bit of a wait until we hear about another new device from the company.

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Its January misery month a yawning chasm between paydays offering naught but the freezing grey expanse of winter to look forward to. So you know what that means: its time to step into last years battered trainers, load up a podcast and get running again.

To help keep you motivated, heres our pick of the best fitness gadgets of 2020, from the best earphones for running to a water bottle that obliterates bacteria with light.

These sports-focused wireless earphones from Apple-owned Beats not only sound great but look the part too, with a discreet clip-on design that fits snugly and never comes loose, even when youre really going for it. Jump over a fence, backflip off a bridge, cartwheel into a bush these guys arent leaving your earholes. 220, beatsbydre.com

These wireless headphones use bone conduction technology to transmit audio directly into your skull by vibrating the bones in and around your ear, which isnt even nearly as dangerous or frightening as it sounds. The effect is spooky, like hearing voices in your head, but leaves your ears open to surrounding environmental noise and so keeps you safer whenever youre running near traffic or tiger enclosures. 150, aftershokz.co.uk

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Dont let the pretty models on the brochures fool you, running is sweaty business and you should look like absolute dog mess when youre doing it. The CX Sport wireless earphones recognise this, and so are splash and sweat resistant. Drip as much of your human brine over these guys as you like, theyll never give up. As well as hardy, theyre the best sounding sports earphones you can buy at this price, thanks to Sennheisers class leading drivers. 119, sennheiser.com

One of the first smart watches to feature an electrocardiogram the type of heartrate monitor that produces that distinctive bleeping line youll recognise from Casualty the Withings ECG can detect heart conditions such as arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation. AI-driven fitness tracking automatically kicks in whenever the device detects that a workout has begun. Unlike the Apple Watch, the ECG must be performed manually each time catnip for hypochondriacs and the watch wont ping you a notification if it notices a dicky ticker. But in its defence, its a stylish piece of go-anywhere wristwear, with a neat and clutter-free face that pairs with any outfit. 130, withings.com

This multisport monster does pretty much everything a fitness wearable could feasibly do. It monitors your heart rate, your altitude, your pace, your gradient, your lactate threshold and your maximal oxygen uptake. It shows you animations of exercises to help you figure out new routines, it comes preloaded with maps of 41,000 golf courses and 2,000 ski resorts. The Fenix 6 is so overloaded with features and functions that its a wonder you cant just take it off, place it on the ground and let it go running all by itself. From 529, garmin.com

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Apples latest iteration of its category-leading smartwatch features an always-on display, which will help you out when youre legging it through the 20th mile of your marathon and can no longer lift your arms. If youre having a particularly torrid time of it, you can even stop running and check youre not having a heart attack using the electrocardiogram feature. Health concerns aside, its a brilliant all-round smartwatch with heaps of third party apps, including dozens designed to help you run faster. From 399, apple.com/uk

Chinese telco giant Huawei isnt having a terribly good time of things on the world stage right now, but if anything the air of potential corporate subterfuge just adds a certain frisson to its range of high-end smart watches. The Huawei Watch GT 2, as well as giving you a very small role to play in an ongoing international trade dispute, is powered by the companys own LiteOS operating system. This means its lacking in third-party apps available to Android and Apple watches, but the premium hardware and glut of bio-sensors make up for this lack of expanded functionality. 199, huawei.com

Step on to these smart bathroom scales and by running an imperceptible electrical signal through the base of your feet the scales will measure and beam all of your bodys essential stats to your phone. Weight, fat percentage, water percentage, even bone mass can be tracked and graphed over time, providing valuable insights into your fitness levels. 69, withings.com

This high-tech bottle periodically blasts your water with the same ultraviolet light used to sterilise operating theatres, destroying the harmful bacteria that builds up in regular bottles and causes the dreaded bottle stink. It also keeps hot things hot and cold things cold, and has a special adventure mode designed to tackle water taken from rivers and lakes. 95, livelarq.com

Strap this to your abdomen before you run for more accurate heart rate monitoring than youd get in a regular fitness watch. The MZ-3 transmits live data to your wrist or phone, and measures effort as well as overall fitness, making it ideal for novices and pros alike. It has built in memory too, so youre free to leave your phone behind and upload your metrics afterwards. 130, myzone.org

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On December 15, a player in Tokyo, Japan calling themselves Sakinyan turned on their Switch and started playing Ring Fit Adventure, Nintendos terrific exercise game hybrid from last year. For most people, a session with Ring Fit Adventure lasts somewhere from 15 minutes to an hour, depending on when you collapse into a pool of sweat. Sakinyan was not engaging in some light exercise, however, but attempting to pull off the first world record run for playing through all of Ring Fit Adventures surprisingly long story mode.

Ring Fit Adventure asks if you want to stop every few minutes. This staggering feat took Sakinyan a little over 18 hours, nearly a complete day of nonstop exercise. At times, they took a moment to snack. Other times, they sipped water. There was even time for a bathroom break, though so far as I could tell while scrubbing through the speedrun, Sakinyan only headed to the bathroom once during the marathon. And because Ring Fit Adventure cant take a hint, theyre also forced to tell the game they dont want to take a break over and over.

At 18 hours and 55 seconds, Sakinyan defeated the games final boss, walked over to their timer, and clicked stop. After dabbing their face with no doubt a completely soaked t-shirt, they performed a few stretches as the games credits rolled. There was no big celebration, no fist pump. Instead, Sakinyan sat on the ground and started scrolling through their phone.

I tried to ask Sakinyan what they were thinking at that moment, when the adrenaline was finally wearing out, but my attempts to contact the speedrunner proved unsuccessful.

Though Sakinyan was playing Ring Fit Adventure on its easiest difficulty, in which the exercise intensity is set at one, its nonetheless a staggering feat of endurance. You might not be required to put in as many reps, and the game might not ask you to hold a position for nearly as long, but you still need to do the work. Standing in one spot for 18 hours would be a pain in the ass, let alone having to squeeze in squats, leg lifts, and everything in-between.

Most of us play games in chunks at a time, a few hours at most. Though the term speedrun suggests one is going fast, lots of games take a long time to speedrun, requiring dozens of hours of careful and deliberate play. Speedrunning is a test of skill and endurance, and while tapping buttons and analog sticks is physically draining in its own right, its hardly on the same level as, say, having to perform a plank over and over again.

Its what makes the slowly growing world of Ring Fit Adventure speedrunning so fascinating. In its early days, its not one defined by glitching through in the world in weird ways because no ones discovered anything like that yet. The only shortcuts are to scroll the menus fastera staple of speedrunning JRPGsand to manage your stamina. A workout that might be more effective at taking out a group of enemies might be more personally draining, forcing you to take a costly break while your energy returns. Its a very different way to play.

And while I wasnt able to contact Sakinyan, the person who submitted the first world record for playing through the entirety of Ring Fit Adventure in one go and the reigning record holder, I was able to speak to others in the community about Nintendos exercising curiosity.

I've always wanted to speedrun a RPG/JRPG of some sort and then I think I joked with somebody about speed running [Ring Fit] and it kinda stuck with me, said Adam Ventifer England, who holds the second fastest world record run. Then I kinda just gave it a shot.

Englands run took 19 hours, 30 minutes, and 11 seconds90 minutes more than Sakinyan.

When England decided to play the entire game in a single go, they took a day off work, and stocked up on water, alongside energy boosters like protein bars. The thing about exercising for long periods of time is how much sheer management is required. You need to keep feeding your body with additional nutrition, or else the whole thing will eventually collapse.

I remember making breakfast that morning wondering how my day will be, they said. I got as prepared as I thought I could be and started.

Despite nerves on the big day, the run itself was mostly uneventful, except for a moment when Englands Joy-Cons ran out of battery, forcing him to use another pair. But when England synced them, the Switch announced it also needed to update the Joy-Cons:

I did get a break out of it so I can't complain too much, though, they said.

During the run itself, England hit the bathroom five or six times, and tried to sneak in water, vitamin water, and protein shakes in-between levels. One problem: they didnt drink enough water before starting the run, and eventually drinking water during the run wasnt enough. It made them tired. These are not the typical considerations required for speedrunning!

Another problem with lengthy bouts of exercise is that it can exacerbate existing physical issues. For England, its arthritis in their right foot. Thats not the kind of foot you want to exert 19 hours of constant pressure on. Weirdly, their right foot felt fine when the run was eventually over, but their left foot hurt like hell, combined with an overall bodily soreness.

The thing about Ring Fit Adventure speedrunning at the moment is that people are still figuring out what to run. The rules are fluid, driven by the community itself, and where people want to compete with one another; its not nearly as fun to earn records in a category by yourself. There are only, in total, three record submissions for playing the entire game, while most of the competition is happening between players who are speedrunning individual worlds.

As a speedrunning game Ring Fit Adventure is still in its wild west phase, said Liam LiamGiiV Gallagher, the most prominent player in the individual world category, currently holding records for 10 of the games 23 worlds. (13 dont even have a submission yet!)

Gallagher comes from a speedrunning background, having spent a lot of time invested in speedrunning Splatoon 2, and later got curious about Ring Fit Adventure because it offered an opportunity to combine two hobbies: speedrunning and exercise. Alongside playing Ring Fit Adventure, Gallagher spends four to five hours every week riding around on their bike.

Unlike Sakinyan and England, Gallagher hasnt attempted to play the whole game in one runyet. They want to spend more time with the game and figuring out an optimal path.

The nature of speedrunning is escalation, though, and the holy grail for Ring Fit Adventure speedrunners goes beyond trying to beat the game as fast as possible, its trying to beat the game as fast as possible on the games hardest difficulty, which sets exercise intensity at 30. Remember, Sakinyans 18-hour run happened with the game set with intensity at just one. At 30, you have to do both more reps and better reps; the game judges players more harshly.

Based on doing some back of the envelope math, the barrier for doing [that run] at maximum difficulty isn't going to be player strength, but player metabolism, said Gallagher. If the game is to be trusted, Sakinyan burnt about 4,000 calories during their run, which even at a conservative estimate puts the maximum difficulty run at at least 40,000 calories.

That is, in Gallaghers words, a lot of bananas. (Bananas are a common snack to eat before and after a workout because the body processes them extremely fast.) As someone who personally plays Ring Fit Adventure with the intensity set at 27, I cannot fathom what it would take to make this happen. I play the game in 30-minute bouts, and Im exhausted by the end. Granted, Im playing to maximize what I want out of my body for that day, rather than trying to sprint through the game, but nonetheless it is designed to kick your dang butt.

Yet, someone is already trying to achieve this feat, and to no great surprise, its Sakinyan.

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On New Years Eve, Sakinyan booted up Ring Fit Adventure and set the intensity to 30. Within minutes, its already clear how much harder this is going to be. The sweating starts sooner. The water breaks are more frequent. Sakinyan rarely sat down during their previous run, but this time, its required. The strain is visible on Sakinyans face, impossible to ignore.

The first 30 squats? No big deal. The 300th? Your body is ready to scream into the void.

Sakinyan manages to keep going for an incredible 11 hours and 16 minutes. The fight that eventually does them in is the same fight they'd made it to at seven hours and 18 minutes when the game was set to its easiest difficulty. In that run, Sakinyan would go on to play Ring Fit Adventure for another 10 hours before it was all said and done. At their current pace, finishing the game at its highest difficulty would not only be exponentially more physically demanding, but it would require that effort for well over 24 hours. Sheesh.

The moment Sakinyan gives up is both humorous and utterly heartbreaking. Dizzy, sweaty, and yawning, Sakinyan scrolls through the games menus at a rapid clip before pausing and quietly talking to themselves. They are making no progress in the runand the clock keeps ticking forward. Resting their head on the included exercise ring, they briefly select the next level before sighing in resignation and setting the device down and kneeling to the floor.

Head in hands, its the look of a person whos realized theyve hit a brick wall. Its over. Their body cant give anymore. Anyone whos done any amount of exercise, whether its 11 minutes or 11 hours, knows what that feeling is like. At a certain point, you have to stop.

The video ends with Sakinyan sitting down in front of their computer. It was time to rest.

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It's not walking, and it's not jogging. It's wogging.

Walking sounds boring, theinventor, Dr. Thomas Patrick, Jr., told The Record in 1980. Jogging sounds like work.

Wogging sounds silly. Patrick was not.

The Fort Lee resident wasthefirst African-American physician at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He practiced medicine in Harlemfor decades, but isbest known for thelaughable moniker he popularized for speed walking.

Fort Lee's Thomas Patrick was the inventor of "wogging" and the first black physician at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.(Photo: NorthJersey.com file photo)

Wogging was basically walking, he admitted, but the fad had a greater significance. Theres nothing wrong with hamburger, but if you give it a fancy name and serve it to the Prince of Wales, it suddenly becomes a big deal, he said.

Optimistic thinking aside, Patricks heart was in the right place. Walking three miles in 45 to 60 minutes four times a week was a basic, attainable way to maintain fitness for people of all ages, he told anyone who would listen.

He wrote in a 1978 letter to a New York newspaper that the activity was fitting for the 99 percent of New Yorkers who wont, cant or shouldnt jog. The letter launched a brief wogging craze,making it a typical fitness fad.

Patrick fielded calls from publishers asking him to write a book, shoe companies seeking endorsements and clothiers pitching hats and shirts. Wogging and charity wog-a-thons were adopted by his hometown of Fort Lee, and more than 200 fitness groups endorsed the exercise.

Dr. Thomas Patrick Jr. proudly displays his sweatshirt proclaiming his favorite form of exercise - wogging - at home in Fort Lee, N.J. November 10, 1989(Photo: Ed Hill, Exclusive rights NJMG)

Over the next decade, Patricks routine remained mostly unchanged. He said that hed wake up every morning, place a granite weight on his abdomen and lift it 1,500 times in 10 minutes with his stomach muscles. He started with a 55-pounds slab a weight gradually reduced to 18 pounds by 1989. When hegot out of bed, hed balance on one foot to put on his socks one at a time in another agility-building exercise.

Never one to loaf around, the retired physician was still attempting to learn Japanese (adding to his extensive German, Spanish, English and French vocabularies), promoting wogging and working out daily at age 81. He was also serving as the co-chair of Fort Lees bias committee, investigating discriminatory hiring practices. It was a role he was sadly suited to hold.

Equipped with a phenomenal intellect, Patrick attended Harvard University in the late 1920s. Stronger, faster and fitter than most, he joined the schools wrestling team but only briefly. He could defeat opponents, but not racism.

"Woggers" return from the second tower of the George Washington Bridge in their effort to raise money for the Leukemia Society during the second annual Wogging Day walk event in Fort Lee, N.J. October 2, 1988(Photo: Peter Monsees, Exclusive rights NJMG)

My coach came up to me before one meet and said, Your man wont wrestle you. Because youre colored, he said.

Patrick graduated from Harvard in 1930, but the aspiring doctor found his options for medical school as welcoming as the racist wrestler he never faced. He found opportunity in Germany and the medical school at the University of Berlin.

There, he was able to skirt racism, while serving witness to the parallel rise of antisemitism and Adolf Hitler. What he saw stuck with him, he told The Record. In 1938, three years after returning to New Jersey with a package for Albert Einstein in hand, Patrick helped two Jews flee to America. He assumed their fate was bleak. I guess I saved their lives, he said.

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As a Harlem-based physician, Patrick saved more lives out of his West 139th Street office over five decades. He also helped traindoctors at Columbia-Presbyterian, where he broke the color barrier when he joined the staff in 1938. I was the first, he said. Others had tried, but I was the first.

Patricks watchword was sensitivity. It was something he carried with him until the very end. His insight into health and his self-awareness even enabled him to predict his own demise.

In his 1980 interview with The Record, he said he expected just to sort of disappear around the year 2000.

Patrick died on Dec. 29, 1999. He was 91, and far more than the inventor of a forgotten fad.

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Fitness trackers are all the rage these days they generated $25 billion in sales in 2018, according to Statista but theyre not all created equal.

Fitbit FIT, +0.30%, one of the first brands in this space, has become synonymous with the fitness tracker. But Fitbits are far from the only game in town. There are plenty of options at a range of price points, from $25 to several hundred, with a dizzying array of available features.

Being the budget-minded consumer that I am, I wondered if it was possible to get a reliable fitness tracker with useful functions at an affordable price in this case, under $100. The answer is yes. Here are several winners for your consideration.

Best budget fitness tracker: Xiaomi Mi Band 3 Fitness Tracker (about $42)

This tracker is a real bargain, but it certainly doesnt feel that way. The Xiaomi Mi Band 3 has a decent-sized screen, similar to that of the Galaxy Fit and Fitbit Inspire HR. Like the Fit and the Inspire, it tracks several common exercises, calories burned and sleep. Where it actually excels is its battery life, which is easily twice as long as the others.

The bands are interchangeable, and there are different color and pattern options on Amazon, though some of them are not from Xiaomi. There are a couple of little quirks I havent been able to change the weather reading from Celsius but all in all, its a legitimate lower-cost alternative to the low-cost alternatives. Read more here.

Best Samsung fitness tracker: Samsung Galaxy Fit (about $80 at Amazon)

While Samsung Galaxy Active watches start at $199, the less-expensive Galaxy Fit at about $80 fits into my budget and I havent been disappointed.

The Galaxy Fit is a lightweight wearable with an on-face display and lots of useful features. It automatically tracks six different types of workouts, including running, walking and cycling it has dozens more pre-installed activities it tracks steps and sleep, and it reminds you when youve been sitting too long. It also measures your heart rate and stress level, and how far youve walked or run.

It receives notifications from my phone for things like texts, calls and calendar reminders, vibrating and displaying abbreviated info on the screen, which is about one inch by a half inch; it gives me a weather report; and it has a water-resistant certification of 5ATM, which means its resistant up to 50 meters.

The Galaxy Fit syncs with the Wear Galaxy app which allows you to change the on-screen display, and what phone notifications you would like to receive on the tracker. You can also use the Samsung Health app for in-depth tracking and historical data. Its available only in black and silver/white at the moment, but the bands are interchangeable so Im hoping for more colors down the road. Read more here.

Best iPhone fitness tracker: Fitbit Inspire HR Fitness Tracker (about $80 on Amazon)

A friend paired the Fitbit Inspire HR with her iPhone 10 and is head-over-heels in love with it. It has features very similar to the Galaxy Fit in terms of battery life, water-resistance, heart-rate monitoring get it without this feature for under $70 sleep tracking and phone notifications.

In addition to tracking 15+ exercises, including running and yoga, you can set goals and receive alerts when you reach them. It also has a guided relaxation feature, if you are feeling stressed.

The screen size is comparable to the Galaxy Fit, about 1 inches, and you can select your preferred on-screen display and view in-depth data through the app. The wristbands are interchangeable and each box includes a large and small size.

Its important to note that despite numerous attempts, I could not pair the Fitbit Inspire HR with my Samsung Galaxy S9. Read more here.

Best retro-style fitness tracker: Withings Move Hybrid Smartwatch (about $70)

The Withings Move has the look of a classic analog wristwatch, and its low profile makes for a very streamlined look and feel. This is a beautiful accessory, one that would look great with your workout gear, but also with a suit. It is water-resistant and comes in a variety of interesting colors, from basic black to statement-making orange.

The Move works differently than face-display trackers in that the clock face commands most of the real estate, with a small dial for daily step tracking. The rest of the data lives in the Withings Health Mate app, which tracks walking, running, swimming, biking and a handful of other activities, and counts calories burned and daily distance. The sleep tracker provides a sleep score based on factors like light and deep sleep, and interruptions. You can also set a silent, vibrating alarm. The Move doesnt provide phone notifications or track heart rate.

One of my favorite features: an impressive 18-month battery life. The drawback: batteries need to be replaced by a watch pro (most jewelry stores can do it), but the long battery life might be a reasonable trade-off. Read more here.

Best modern-style fitness tracker: Misfit Ray (about $88 on Amazon)

Unlike the others, the Ray doesnt have an on-face display so its ideal for people who want their fitness tracker to look more like an accessory than a watch or a conventional tracker. It has a futuristic style and is available in a few different colors including Rose Gold and Carbon Black. When I wore it during testing, I got plenty of compliments.

In place of an on-face display, the Misfit Ray alerts you to phone calls, texts, alarms, and other phone notifications with a flashing light or a vibration. Through the Misfit app, it does everything that a standard tracker can do, including counting steps and measuring distance traveled and sleep.

The Misfit Ray has a long battery life six months and the three button-cell batteries are easy to replace. Like the others, its water resistant to 50 meters, and through the Misfit Link platform, you can program it to do things like turn on smart lights, or take a selfie with your camera by tapping three times. Read more here.

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Every year, the tech world descends on Las Vegas at the beginning of January to get a glimpse of the future. The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is the first chance the biggest tech and consumer goods companies in the world have to wow journalists with their biggest, boldest new gizmos in the new year. Usually, the biggest splashes at the show come from either concept products years away from release or gimmicks that will never see widespread distribution, but you can always count on some exciting, solid gear to be on display, too.

The past few years has seen health and fitness products well-represented, as exercise and tech have become more intertwinedthink streaming cardio machines like Peloton, fitness trackers, and even smart home gyms like Mirror and Tonal. Those categories were well-represented at CES in 2020, with some next-level wearables, a new smart workout platform, and some seriously high-tech gear for your shoes.

Here are 4 new gadgets we're excited about from CES 2020.

Suunto, a Finnish orienteering brand, has made some of the most solid adventure and fitness smartwatches we've tested over the last few yearsbut all of their numbered offerings (the 3 Fitness, 5, and 9) have depended on the company's own OS. The upcoming Suunto 7, which was revealed at CES, will be Suunto's first using Google's Wear OS. That platform could make the 7 the best combination of lifestyle fitness power and outdoor ruggedness yet.

The 7 promises to track over 70 activities and feature built-in GPS, barometer, and heart rate monitoring along with smart features like on-device payments and music control. The watch is available for pre-order now and hits the market at the end of January.

Most wearables live on the wrist. This new device lives in your shoes. The NURVV insoles are tricked out with 32 precision sensors to capture your performance metrics in 1,000 times a second. The system also includes a tracker, which you latch onto the side of your kicks.

The tech works with an app that measure running distance at pace at 99.9 percent accuracy, according to the company, which allows you to check out a wide range of metrics like step length and cadence. More importantly the app provides personalized coaching from your data, both during and after your runs, to fine-tune performance and avoid injury. The NURVV Run system is available now for $299.

Wearable company Huami and STUDIO teamed up to create a home workout center that aims to bring the best of high-tech fitness platforms like Peloton and gear like Mirror into one package. Pair a 43-inch smart screen with a front-facing 3D camera and a luxe treadmill for on-demand classes for categories like treadmill, sculpt, stretch, and yoga, and you get the Amazfit Home Studio.

The platform is designed to be connected, and the company touts future abilities to add smart home assistants and heart rate tracking from third-party devices. Like other home fitness platforms, you'll be on the hook for a monthly content subscription along with the hardware. Release details haven't yet been announced.

Wearables company Withings' most significant contribution to CES 2020 is a super smart hybrid smartwatch that the company claims can detect the risk of both arrythmia (AFib) and sleep apnea, projects that companies like Apple and Fitbit have both taken on to various degrees of success. The ScanWatch is the first in the world to do both, according to Withings.

The watch uses an embedded sensor to monitor your heart rate, then provides warnings after signs of irregularity through a connected app. Along with the AFib and sleep tracking, the ScanWatch also has more standard features like workout tracking, VO2 Max measurements, and more. Release details are yet to come.

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